New Delhi [India], December 7 (ANI): India’s greatest desk tennis carnival is again, because the second version of the WTT Star Contender Goa is slated to happen in Goa from January 23 to twenty-eight, 2024.
The match might be co-hosted by Stupa Sports Analytics and Ultimate Table Tennis below the steering of the Table Tennis Federation of India (TTFI).
As probably the most prestigious occasions within the worldwide desk tennis calendar, the primary version of the WTT Star Contender Goa befell earlier this 12 months and had among the world’s greatest stars on the present, together with World No 1 Fan Zhendong, Japanese prodigy Tomokazu Harimoto, World No 4 Wang Yidi, and World No 5 Hina Hayata, descending to Goa for the inaugural version. Besides that, the match additionally noticed the participation of 40 Indian gamers, which was the best for a WTT occasion.
“The first edition of WTT Star Contender Goa was a great success. Table tennis is still at a nascent stage in India and tournaments like this not only show the sport’s potential commercially but also encourage its overall growth,” Stupa Sports Analytics CEO and Co-founder Megha Gambhir commented.
The high-profile match is a part of the six-star Contender collection occasions the place solely the highest 30 gamers are eligible to take part, with six gamers obligatory from the highest 20 on the earth rankings. The match boasts a large prize pool of USD 250,000 and permits gamers to win rating factors and qualify for the WTT Cup Finals and WTT Champions Series.
“This collaboration signifies a commitment to fostering international camaraderie in table tennis and encouraging the passionate community of players and fans to unite in India like never before. The WTT Star Contender Goa is poised to be a global showcase of talent, skill, and competition,” UTT co-promoter Vita Dani stated.
World Table Tennis (WTT), conceptualised by the International Table Tennis Federation in 2019, serves because the epicentre for skilled males’s and ladies’s desk tennis occasions globally. The collection encompasses a large number of occasions all year long, with the 4 Grand Smashes standing out because the highest-ranked tournaments.
“Playing against world-class players or watching them from a close quarter always inspires the younger generation. This tournament is a great opportunity for our Indian players. We, at TTFI, extend full support to Stupa Sports Analytics and Ultimate Table Tennis to make the second edition a grand success,” Kamlesh Mehta, Secretary General of the TTFI, said.
China’s Liang Jingkun and Yidi had gained males’s and ladies’s singles titles, respectively, within the inaugural version of the match. (ANI)