Thursday, 15 June 2017

ULTIMATE TABLE TENNIS

India’s 1st Table Tennis franchise based professional league commences in mid July and Indian fans are eagerly waiting for Ultimate Table Tennis-UTT league. League starts on July 13 in Chennai, and will continue its league in New Delhi& end in Mumbai on July 30,2017.
UTT league is being promoted by 11evensports private limited; in support of TTFI-Table Tennis Federation Of India; implementation partner IMG-reliance.
Each franchise owner has paid 2.5 crore rupees for a 10-year deal, players get between 1.5-2 lakh according to their stature; here are the owners;
Dabang Smashers T.T.C owned by Mrs. Radha Kapoor Khanna, DoIT;RP-SG Mavericks by Mr. Sanjiv Goenka, RP-SP group;Maharashtra United by Mr. Kapil & Dheeraj Wadhawan ,Rajesh Wadhawan group;Bay side Spinners T.T.C. owned by ASK Group’s Mr. Sameer Koticha;Oilmax-Stag Yoddhas by Mr. Kapil Garg & Mr. Vivek Kohli;Challengers owned by Mr. Vivek Bhargava.
There will be 6 franchises; each franchise will comprise of 8 players each- 4 foreign players & 4 Indian players. The team has equal proportionate players of men & women paddlers. Each team will have 2 coaches,one foreign coach and one Indian.
Among 24 foreign players, 21 of the players are Olympians. Iconic women players Han Ying, the only China Player will paddle up for Bay side spinners. Archana Kamath is the youngest paddler in women’s category.
Top shots Wong Chun Ting of Hong Kong who is currently world no.7 was bagged by Maharashtra United; while highest ranked in men’s category Marcos Freitas will paddle for Dabang Smashers and India’s no.1 Sharath Kamal will play up for RP-SG Mavericks.
The league matches will be telecasted on the leading sports channel Star Sports select 2 &2 HD live from 7:30 PM  during the tournament dates; i.e. 13th July to 30th July,2017. Digital platform Hot Star will also provides live streaming. 

CHALLENGERS:-
Domestic Coach:-  A. Muralidhara Rao    Foreign Coach:- Elena Timina
OLIMAX STAG YODDHAS:-
Domestic Coach:- Sandeep Gupta                   Foreign Coach:-  Vesna Ojstersek
RP-SG MAVERICKS:
DOMESTIC COACH:-Sachin Shetty                   FOREIGN COACH:-Peter Engle
MAHARASHTRA UNITED:-
DOMESTIC COACH:Arup Basak             FOREIGN COACH:Fernec Karsai
BAYSIDE SPINNERS T.T.C.:-
DOMESTIC COACH:Soumyadeep Roy

FOREIGN COACH:Francisco Santos.
PIC FROM UTT WEBSITE

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