Soumyajit Ghosh became 3rd Indian Table
Tennis to win 2017 ITTF Challenge Chile Open Champion and clinched gold and he
also joined the earlier list.Achanta Sharath Kamal, who won gold in 2010 Egypt
Open Championship overcoming Hong Kong’s Li Ching and Sathiyan Gnanashekaran in
2016 Belgian open defeating host nation’s player Cedric Nuythinck.
Soumyajit Ghosh defeated compatriot Anthony Amalraj
4-2 (8-11, 13-11, 11-6, 11-9, 4-11, 11-7). By reaching the finals Anthony
Amalraj became 4th Indian to reach finals in such type of
Championships and Tours.
Soumyajit Ghosh also won gold in doubles along with
Anthony Amalraj and became the 1st Indians to win doubles title
either on World Tour or Challenge Series defeating Phillipp Floritz and Hunor
Szcos to 3-1 (13-11,10-12, 14-12, 11-9).
With this tournament Table Tennis has reached
another level in India and young people are looking and these young players
along with Mouma Das, Manika Batra and taking them as inspiration to take the
game into and make the nation shine. I hope in coming decade Indian Table
Tennis goes into glory and pride shinning the name of the country, INIDA.
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