In the absence of the world number 56th player Manika Batra, the 97th-ranked Sutirtha Mukherjee will lead the women's team.
Indian Table Tennis star Manika Batra had made a shocking revelation and had alleged that the national coach Soumyadeep Roy asked her to "concede match" purposely during the Tokyo Olympics qualifiers in March. She added that this was the prominent reason why she refused to take any help from him during her games in the Olympics.
While the blame game continues, the Indian paddler on Wednesday (September 17) was left out of the India squad for the Asian Championships beginning September 28 in Doha.
In the absence of the world number 56th player, the 97th-ranked Sutirtha Mukherjee will lead the women's team. The other members are Ayhika Mukherjee (ranked 131) and Archana Kamath (132).
Veteran Sharath Kamal (ranked 33) will be leading the men's challenge in the company of G Sathiyan (38), Harmeet Desai (72), Manav Thakkar (134) and Sanil Shetty (247).
China will not be taking part in the event which will be raising medal hopes for India in the men's team event.
As for Batra's exclusion from the event, the Table Tennis Federation of India (TTFI) had made it clear that any player not attending the camp will not be considered for selection.
Following the Tokyo Olympics, the federation had made attendance in camps compulsory. However, Manika had informed the federation that she would like to continue training with her personal coach in Pune.
As for the match-fixing allegations against the national coach, TTFI has formed an inquiry panel to probe the allegations. She later even responded to TTFI's show-cause notice and denied that she brought disrepute to the game by refusing Roy's help.
"Besides the need to avoid disturbance due to his last-minute intervention, there was an additional and much more serious reason behind my preference to play without the national coach," the Khel Ratna awardee alleged in her response to TTFI secretary Arun Banerjee.
"The national coach had pressurised me during the qualification tournament in Doha in March 2021 to concede my match to his student to enable her to qualify for Olympics – in short – to indulge in match-fixing," she had said.
Men's team: Manav Thakkar, Sharath Kamal, G Sathiyan, Harmeet Desai, Sanil Shetty.
Men's doubles: Sharath Kamal and G Sathiyan; Manav Thakkar and Harmeet Desai.
Women's team: Sutirtha Mukherjee, Sreeja Akula, Ayhika Mukherjee, Archana Kamath.
Women's doubles: Archana Kamath and Sreeja Akula; Sutirtha Mukherjee and Ayhika Mukherjee.
Mixed doubles: Manav Thakkar and Archana Kamath; Harmeet Desai and Sreeja Akula.
(Inputs from ANI)
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