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What's Racketlon: Criss crossing TT, badminton, squash and tennis courts

December 02, 2025 8:38 am

The sport involves four back-to-back games in order of progressive higher racquet weight played to 21 points each with 3-minutes transitions

Yogasana India has received almost a 400 percent hike while the assistance for Indian football nearly halved. (Express photo by Vishal Srivastava/PTI)

Government funding for sports: Nearly 400 per cent hike for yoga, gets as much as chess and more than basketball, volleyball

August 21, 2025 12:10 am

In bid to take Indian tradition to the world and get it included at major multi-sport events, yoga gets substantial raise; funding for athletics, boxing, football goes down.

Sreeja Akula and Manika Batra will be the only Indians at ITTF World Cup 2025. (File Photo)

Who won when Sreeja Akula played against Manika Batra?

August 19, 2025 8:25 pm

It was a Mama Mia! clash in Sweden at WTT Europe Smash between the top two Indians for a place in Round of 32, however Sreeja went on to lose to Zhu Yulin there.

‘Power game', ‘recovery’ - Yashaswini Ghorpade’s learnings from foreign table tennis players

July 11, 2025 9:17 am

The 20-year-old youngster dwells on what possibly stops Indians from pressing home their advantage and frittering their leads.

Divyanshi defeated three Chinese players on the way to winning India’s first gold medal in 36 years at the Asian Youth Table Tennis Championships. (Photo credit: Dream UTT Juniors)

Father's foresight, TT robot behind Divyanshi taking down three Chinese on way to Asian title

July 04, 2025 5:38 pm

Playing senior tournaments from an early age, taking help of technology and being impatient results in India's first U15 title at Asian Youth TT Championships

(L-R) Taneesha Kotecha, Diya Chitale, Sathiyan G, Vita Dani - Co-founder of UTT, Payas Jain, Harmeet Desai at the UTT Season 6 Auction held in Mumbai today

UTT Player Auction Season 6: A handy guide to full squads and top buys

April 16, 2025 2:26 pm

India’s top-ranked national player Diya Chitale emerged as the highest-valued Indian paddler, returning to Dabang Delhi TTC through the Right to Match

Ultimate Table Tennis Season 6 Players Auction: Format, Schedule

April 14, 2025 7:29 pm

Here is everything you need to know about the upcoming player auctions of the Ultimate Table Tennis (UTT) season 6.

ITTF World Cup 2025: Manika, Sreeja in action- Schedule, Where to Watch

April 13, 2025 8:32 pm

Here is everything you need to know about the International Table Tennis Federation Singles World Cup 2025 starting tomorrow.

India's Manav Thakkar in action during WTT Star Contender event in Chennai. (WTT)

Manav Thakkar reaches career-high of World No. 47 after historic WTT Star Contender Chennai

April 01, 2025 7:43 pm

Manav stormed into the ITTF World Rankings Top 50 for the first time, moving up 16 points to secure a career-best No. 47 spot.

Sharath Kamal interview: 'I leave Indian table tennis in good hands, we need a clear monitoring process to ensure we grow as a team'

March 30, 2025 10:38 pm

After an illustrious playing career, Achanta Sharath Kamal hopes to be involved in a high-performance role to take Indian table tennis to the next level