Ultimate Table Tennis
Table tennis league in India

Ultimate Table Tennis
Current season, competition or edition:
Current sports event 2024 Ultimate Table Tennis
SportTable Tennis
Founded2017
First season2017 [1]
Owner(s)11Sports
PresidentVita Dani
AdministratorTable Tennis Federation of India
No. of teams8
CountryIndia
Most recent
champion(s)		Goa Challengers
(2024)
Most titlesGoa Challengers
(2023, 2024)
TV partner(s)Sports18[2]
Streaming partner(s)JioCinema[3]
Official websiteWebsite

Ultimate Table Tennis is a professional level table tennis league in India.[4] Launched in 2017, it consists of 8 teams.[5] The league is held by Table Tennis Federation of India.[6] The 2024 champions are Goa Challengers who defeated Dabang Delhi TTC in the finals.

Falcons TTC won the first season with a 14–9 score against Shazé Challengers. Dabang Delhi TTC won the second season with a 11–7 result against defending champs Falcons TTC. Chennai Lions won their season three victory with an 8–1 score against defending champions Dabang Delhi TTC. Season four saw Goa Challengers winning with an 8–7 game against defenders Chennai Lions.

Goa Challengers defended their title with an 8–2 win over Dabang Delhi TTC in season 5.

Format

A tie is an encounter between 2 teams and consists of 9 matches. Every match consists of three games. Every game is played up to eleven points. The team, that have won the most games of a tie is the winner.

No.TypePlayer APlayer B
1MSForeignIndian
2WSIndianForeign
3XDForeign / IndianForeign / Indian
4MSForeignForeign
5WSForeignForeign
6MSIndianForeign
7WSForeignIndian
8MSForeignForeign
9WSForeignForeign

Teams

Current teams

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Locations of the eight UTT teams
TeamCityDebutStadiumCoachesOwner
Ahmedabad SG PipersAhmedabad, Gujarat2024India Jay Modak
Portugal Francisco Santos		SG Sports Entertainment Private Limited
Bengaluru SmashersBengaluru, Karnataka2023India Anshuman Roy
Netherlands Elena Timina		Punit Balan
Chennai LionsChennai, Tamil Nadu2019Jawaharlal Nehru StadiumIndia Subin Kumar
Sweden Tobias Bergman		Harini Yadav
Karishma Yadav
Dabang Delhi TTCDelhi, NCR2017Thyagaraj Sports ComplexIndia Sachin Shetty
Slovenia Vesna Ojstersek		Radha Kapoor Khanna
Goa ChallengersGoa2017India Subhajit Saha
Hungary Zoltan Batorfi		Shrinivas Dempo
Vivek Bhargava
Jaipur PatriotsJaipur, Rajasthan2024India Somnath Ghosh
Croatia Ronald Redep		World of Krida Private Limited
Puneri Paltan TTPune, Maharashtra2019Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports ComplexIndia Parag Agrawal
Germany Jorg Bitzigeio		Insurekot Sports Pvt. Ltd.
U Mumba TTMumbai, Maharashtra2019Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Indoor StadiumIndia Anshul Garg
Republic of Ireland John Murphy		Unilazer Ventures Pvt. Ltd.

Former teams

TeamDebutDissolvedOwner
Falcons TTC20172018Rizwan Amlani
Shazé Challengers20172017Vivek Bhargava
Oilmax-Stag Yoddhas20172017Oilmax Energy Pvt Ltd
Stag International
Maharashtra United20172018DHFL
Warriors TTC20182018
RP-SG Mavericks Kolkata20172019Sanjiv Goenka
Utsav Parekh

Seasons and results

There have been five seasons of Ultimate Table Tennis. Goa Challengers have won the league two times in 2023 and 2024. Dabang Delhi TTC have been in the finals thrice and won it once. Chennai Lions have been in the finals twice and won it once.

YearFinalVenueTotal teams
WinnerResultRunner-up
2017Falcons TTC14–9Shazé ChallengersSardar Vallabhbhai Patel Indoor Stadium, Mumbai6
2018Dabang Delhi TTC11–7Falcons TTCNetaji Indoor Stadium, Kolkata
2019Chennai Lions8–1Dabang Delhi TTCThyagaraj Sports Complex, New Delhi
2023Goa Challengers8–7Chennai LionsShree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex, Pune
2024Goa Challengers8–2Dabang Delhi TTCJawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Chennai8

Team squads

Season 1 (2017)

TeamPlayersCoaches
MaleFemale
Falcons TTCSweden Par Gerell
England Liam Pitchford
India Sanil Shetty
India Arjun Ghosh		China Wu Yang
Hong Kong Lee Ho Ching
India Sutirtha Mukherjee
India Priyadarshini Das		Portugal Francisco Santos
India Soumyadeep Roy
Shazé ChallengersChina Li Ping
Croatia Andrej Gaćina
India Soumyajit Ghosh
India Manav Thakkar		Germany Han Ying
Germany Petrissa Solja
India Mouma Das
India Moumita Datta		Netherlands Elena Timina
India A. Muralidhara Rao
Dabang Smashers TTCPortugal Marcos Freitas
Ukraine Kou Lei
IndiaSathiyan Gnanasekaran
India A. Amalraj		Turkey Hu Melek
Ukraine Tetyana Bilenko
India Madhurika Patkar
India Mousumi Paul		United States Ilija Lupulesku
India N. Ravichandran
DHFL Maharashtra UnitedHong Kong Wong Chun Ting
Portugal Joao Monteiro
India Harmeet Desai
India Ronit Bhanja		Austria Liu Jia
Portugal Fu Yu
India Krittwika Sinha Roy
India Pooja Sahasrabudhe		Hungary Ferenc Karsai
India Arup Basak
Oilmax-Stag YoddhasGreece Panagiotis Gionis
Nigeria Quadri Aruna
India Jubin Kumar
India Abhishek Yadav		Hong Kong Doo Hoi Kem
Russia Polina Mikhailova
India Manika Batra
India Selena D. Selvakumar		Slovenia Vesna Ojsteršek
India Sandeep Gupta
RP-SG MavericksPortugal Tiago Apolonia
Austria Stefan Fegerl
India Sharath Kamal
India Birdie Boro		Austria Sofia Polcanova
Germany Sabine Winter
India Archana Kamath
India Amrutha Pushpak		Germany Peter Engel
India Sachin Shetty

Season 2 (2018)

TeamPlayersCoaches
MaleFemale
Dabang Delhi TTCJapan Yoshida Masaki
Belgium Cedric Nuytinck
India Sathiyan Gnanasekaran
India Sanish Ambekar		Japan Sakura Mori
Puerto Rico Adriana Diaz
India Archana Kamath
India Manika Batra		Romania Andrei Filimon


India Sachin Shetty

RP-SG MavericksUkraine Kou Lei
Sweden Mattias Karlsson
India Harmeet Desai
India Siddhesh Pande		Hong Kong Doo Hoi Kem
Germany Sabine Winter
India Ayhika Mukherjee
India Mouma Das		Netherlands Elena Timina
India Arup Basak
Falcons TTCEngland Liam Pitchford
Spain Álvaro Robles
India Sanil Shetty
India Ronit Bhanja		Romania Bernadette Szocs
Sweden Matilda Ekholm
India Sutirtha Mukherjee
India Priyagarshini Das		Slovenia Vesna Ojsteršek
India Soumyadeep Roy
Empowerji ChallengersFrance Simon Gauzy
Portugal Tiago Apolonia
India Manav Thakkar
India Arjun Ghosh		Hong Kong Lee Ho Ching
Hungary Georgina Pota
India Divya Deshpande
India Prapti Sen		Germany Peter Engel
India A. Muralidhara Rao
Maharashtra UnitedSweden Kristian Karlsson
Portugal João Monteiro
India Anthony Amalraj
India Utkarsh Gupta		Romania Elizabeta Samara
United States Lily Zhang
India Madhurika Patkar
India Selena D. Selvakumar		Portugal Francisco Santos
India N. Ravichandran
Yoddhas Warriors TTCNigeria Quadri Aruna
Chinese Taipei Chuang Chih-Yuan
India Sharath Kamal
India Ravindra Kotiyan		Austria Sofia Polcanova
Czech Republic Hana Matelova
India Pooja Sahasrabudhe
IndiaSreeja Akula		Hungary Ferenc Karsai
India Sandeep Gupta

Season 3 (2019)

TeamPlayersCoaches
MaleFemale
Chennai LionsPortugal Tiago Apolonia
India Sharath Kamal
India Anirban Ghosh		Germany Petrissa Solja
India Madhurika Patkar
India Yashini Sivansakar		Germany Peter Engel
India A. Muralidhara Rao
Dabang Delhi TTCSweden Jon Persson
India Sathiyan Gnanasekaran
India Parth Virmani		Romania Bernadette Szocs
India Krittwika Sinha Roy
India Naina		Slovenia Vesna Ojsteršek
India Sachin Shetty
Goa ChallengersSpain Álvaro Robles
India Amalraj Anthony
India Siddhesh Pande		Chinese Taipei Cheng I-Ching
India Archana Kamath
India Shruti Amrute		Netherlands Elena Timina
India Arup Basak
Puneri Paltan TTChinese Taipei Chuang Chih-Yuan
India Harmeet Desai
India Ronit Bhanja		Germany Sabine Winter
India Ayhika Mukherjee
India Selena Selvakumar		Portugal Francisco Santos
India Parag Agrawal
RP-SG Mavericks KolkataGermany Benedikt Duda
India Sanil Shetty
India Manush Shah		Sweden Matilda Ekholm
India Manika Batra
India Prapti Sen		Hungary Zoltan Batorfi
India N. Ravichandran
U Mumba TTKazakhstan Kirill Gerassimenko
India Manav Thakkar
India Jeet Chandra		Hong Kong Doo Hoi Kem
India Sutirtha Mukherjee
India Moumita Datta		United States Jiaqi Zheng
India Soumyadeep Roy

Season 4 (2023)

TeamPlayersCoaches
MaleFemale
Bengaluru SmashersKazakhstan Kirill Gerassimenko
India Sanil Shetty
India Ankur Bhattacharjee		Poland Natalia Bajor
India Manika Batra
India Poymantee Baisya		Slovenia Vesna Ojsteršek
India Sachin Shetty
Chennai LionsGermany Benedikt Duda
India Sharath Kamal
India Payas Jain		Australia Liu Yangzi
India Sutirtha Mukherjee
India Prapti Sen		Germany Jörg Bitzigeio
India Somnath Ghosh
Dabang Delhi TTCSweden Jon Persson
India Sathiyan Gnanasekaran
India Anirban Ghosh		Slovakia Barbora Balazova
India Ayhika Mukherjee
India Sreeja Akula		Serbia Slobodan Grujić
India A Muralidhara Rao
Goa ChallengersSpain Álvaro Robles
India Amalraj Anthony
India Harmeet Desai		Thailand Suthasini Sawettabut
India Reeth Tennison
India Krittwika Roy		Netherlands Elena Timina
India Parag Agrawal
Puneri Paltan TTCEgypt Omar Assar
India Manush Shah
India Snehit Suravajjula		Czech Republic Hana Matelova
India Archana Kamath
India Anusha Kutumbale		Hungary Zoltan Batorfi
India N. Ravichandran
U Mumba TTNigeria Quadri Aruna
India Manav Thakkar
India Sudhanshu Grover		United States Lily Zhang
India Mouma Das
India Diya Chitale		Portugal Francisco Santos
India Anshul Garg

Season 5 (2024)

The 2024 Ultimate Table Tennis league saw 48 players, including 16 internationals. Two new teams namely Ahmedabad SG Pipers and Jaipur Patriots made their debut in season 5 of UTT.[7]

TeamPlayersCoaches
MaleFemale
Bengaluru SmashersSpain Alvaro Robles
India Amalraj Antony
India Jeet Chandra		United States Lily Zhang
India Manika Batra
India Taneesha Kotecha		Netherlands Elena Timina
India Anshuman Roy
Ahmedabad SG PipersFrance Lilian Bardet
India Manush Shah
India Jash Modi		Romania Bernadette Szocs
India Pritha Vartikar
India Reeth Rishya		Portugal Francisco Santos
India Jay Modak
Dabang Delhi TTCAustria Andreas Levenko
India Sathiyan Gnanasekaran
India Yashansh Malik		Thailand Orawan Paranang
India Diya Chitale
India Lakshita Narang		Slovenia Vesna Ojsteršek
India Sachin Shetty
U Mumba TTNigeria Quadri Aruna
India Manav Thakkar
India Akash Pal		Spain Maria Xiao
India Sutirtha Mukherjee
India Kavyasree Baskar		Republic of Ireland John Murphy
India Anshul Garg
Goa ChallengersItaly Mihai Bobocica
India Harmeet Desai
India Sudhanshu Grover		Australia Liu Yangzi
India Yashaswini Ghorpade
India Sayali Wani		Hungary Zoltan Batorfi
India Subhajit Saha
Puneri Paltan TTPortugal João Monteiro
India Anirban Ghosh
India Ankur Bhattacharjee		Germany Nina Mittelham
India Ayhika Mukherjee
India Yashini Sivashankar		Germany Jorg Bitzigeio
India Parag Agrawal
Jaipur PatriotsSouth Korea Cho Seungmin
India Snehit Suravajjula
India Ronit Bhanja		Thailand Suthasini Sawettabut
India Sreeja Akula
India Moumita Dutta		Croatia Ronald Redep
India Somnath Ghosh
Chennai LionsFrance Jules Rolland
India Sharath Kamal
India Abhinandh PB		Japan Sakura Mori
India Mouma Das
India Poymantee Baisya		Sweden Tobias Bergman
India Subin Kumar

Points table

Season 1

PositionTeamTiesMatchesPoints
PlayedWon
1Falcons TTC532778
2Shazé Challengers542473
3Dabang Delhi TTC532869
4DHFL Maharashtra United522164
5Oilmax-Stag Yoddhas521861
6RP-SG Mavericks511760

Season 2

PositionTeamTiesMatchesPoints
PlayedWon
1Dabang Delhi TTC532363
2RP-SG Mavericks542058
3Falcons TTC542156
4Maharashtra United521549
5Warriors TTC511347
6Empowerji Challengers511342

Season 3

PositionTeamTiesMatchesPoints
PlayedWon
1U Mumba TTC541644
2Chennai Lions531442
3Goa Challengers531541
4Dabang Delhi TTC531341
5RP-SG Mavericks511030
6Puneri Paltan TT51727

Season 4

PositionTeamTiesMatchesPoints
PlayedWon
1Dabang Delhi TTC531442
2Chennai Lions521441
3Puneri Paltan TT531438
4Goa Challengers521336
5Bengaluru Smashers531535
6U Mumba TT52833

Season 5

PositionTeamTiesMatchesPoints
PlayedWon
1Bengaluru Smashers541648
2Ahmedabad SG Pipers531742
3Dabang Delhi TTC531441
4Goa Challengers531137
5Chennai Lions521337
6U Mumba TT521236
7Puneri Paltan TT521031
8Jaipur Patriots41728

References

  1. ^ "Ultimate Table Tennis: India's first-ever professional league for the sport to begin from 13 July". Sportskeeda. 26 June 2017. Retrieved 30 July 2019.
  2. ^ "Ultimate Table Tennis 2023: Schedule, Results, Points Table, Telecast & Live Streaming Info Of UTT Season 4 – myKhel". Retrieved 28 August 2023.
  3. ^ "Viacom18 gets the right to broadcast Ultimate Table Tennis - The Economic Times". m.economictimes.com. Retrieved 20 August 2024.
  4. ^ "All you need to know about Ultimate Table Tennis". ESPN India. 11 July 2017. Retrieved 30 July 2019.
  5. ^ "All about Ultimate Table Tennis". The Hindu. 28 June 2017. Retrieved 30 July 2019.
  6. ^ "Ultimate Table Tennis 2018: Captains of six teams unveil trophy as tournament set to begin on Thursday". Firstpost. 13 June 2018. Retrieved 30 July 2019.
  7. ^ Sportstar, Team (20 August 2024). "Ultimate Table Tennis 2024: Preview, schedule, squads, streaming info and all you need to know about UTT season 5". sportstar.thehindu.com. Retrieved 20 August 2024.
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