India have sent a six-member contingent for the table tennis tournament in China.
The Asian cup 2025 table tennis tournament will start at the Universiade Sports Center in Shenzhen, the People’s Republic of China, on Wednesday.
This will be the 34th edition of the ITTF-ATTU Asian Cup. The tournament consists of competitions of both mens and womens singles categories. Each event will feature 32 players.
All four semi-finalists in both the mens and womens singles events will also qualify for the ITTF World Cup 2025, which is to take place in April later this year. Matches of the Asian cup 2025 table tennis tournament will be live streamed in India.
The Indian men’s contingent at the Asia Cup 2025 will be led by world No. 42 sharath kamal a five times Olympian and the reigning Commonwealth Games men’s singles champion.
World No. 60 Manav Thakkar and Harmeet Desai, 70th in the rankings, are the other two male india table tennis players competing in the continental tournament.
The Indian women’s squad will be without star player manika batra, who will miss the Asian Cup after picking up an injury. Yashaswini Ghorpade has been announced as her replacement.
The tournament format is for both men and women singles which are the same. the players will be divided into eight groups of four, each for Stage 1 of the competition and the top two from each group will advance to the Stage 2, which will be played in a knockout format.