Ultimate Table Tennis: Sreeja Akula, Sharath Kamal among 48 players to compete in 2024 season
The upcoming season of the UTT league is scheduled to be held at the Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor Stadium in Chennai from August 22 to September 7.
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The eight Ultimate Table Tennis franchises put together their squads for the upcoming edition at the Player Draft in Mumbai on Wednesday.
The upcoming season will have eight teams for the first time and a total of 48 players, including 16 foreigners, will be in fray at the Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor Stadium in Chennai from August 22 to September 7.
Newcomers Jaipur Patriots, who got the first pick in Round 1, went for in-form India star and current world No 25 Sreeja Akula, who recently became the first Indian to clinch a WTT Contender singles title.
Puneri Paltan Table Tennis, who chose not to retain a player, picked Ayhika Mukherjee to kick off proceedings. Ahmedabad SG Pipers, the other franchise to make their UTT debut, went for Manush Shah as their first choice and then bagged the services of women’s world No 10 Bernadette Szocs of Romania in the second round.
The franchise-based league is promoted by Niraj Bajaj and Vita Dani under the auspices of the Table Tennis Federation of India (TTFI).
“More or less, what we had discussed and strategized we got what we wanted. We wanted Sreeja and we got her in the first pick,” said Jaipur Patriots COO Imran Shaikh.
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