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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

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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. Type Player A Player B
1 MS Foreign Indian
2 WS Indian Foreign
3 XD Foreign / Indian Foreign / Indian
4 MS Foreign Foreign
5 WS Foreign Foreign
6 MS Indian Foreign
7 WS Foreign Indian
8 MS Foreign Foreign
9 WS Foreign Foreign

Teams

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Current teams

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Team City Debut Stadium Coaches Owner
Ahmedabad SG Pipers Ahmedabad, Gujarat 2024 India Jay Modak
Portugal Francisco Santos
SG Sports Entertainment Private Limited
Bengaluru Smashers Bengaluru, Karnataka 2023 India Anshuman Roy
Netherlands Elena Timina
Punit Balan
Chennai Lions Chennai, Tamil Nadu 2019 Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium India Subin Kumar
Sweden Tobias Bergman
Harini Yadav
Karishma Yadav
Dabang Delhi TTC Delhi, NCR 2017 Thyagaraj Sports Complex India Sachin Shetty
Slovenia Vesna Ojstersek
Radha Kapoor Khanna
Goa Challengers Goa 2017 India Subhajit Saha
Hungary Zoltan Batorfi
Shrinivas Dempo
Vivek Bhargava
Jaipur Patriots Jaipur, Rajasthan 2024 India Somnath Ghosh
Croatia Ronald Redep
World of Krida Private Limited
Puneri Paltan TT Pune, Maharashtra 2019 Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex India Parag Agrawal
Germany Jorg Bitzigeio
Insurekot Sports Pvt. Ltd.
U Mumba TT Mumbai, Maharashtra 2019 Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Indoor Stadium India Anshul Garg
Republic of Ireland John Murphy
Unilazer Ventures Pvt. Ltd.

Former teams

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Team Debut Dissolved Owner
Falcons TTC 2017 2018 Rizwan Amlani
Shazé Challengers 2017 2017 Vivek Bhargava
Oilmax-Stag Yoddhas 2017 2017 Oilmax Energy Pvt Ltd
Stag International
Maharashtra United 2017 2018 DHFL
Warriors TTC 2018 2018
RP-SG Mavericks Kolkata 2017 2019 Sanjiv Goenka
Utsav Parekh

Seasons and results

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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.

Year Final Venue Total teams
Winner Result Runner-up
2017 Falcons TTC 14–9 Shazé Challengers Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Indoor Stadium, Mumbai 6
2018 Dabang Delhi TTC 11–7 Falcons TTC Netaji Indoor Stadium, Kolkata
2019 Chennai Lions 8–1 Dabang Delhi TTC Thyagaraj Sports Complex, New Delhi
2023 Goa Challengers 8–7 Chennai Lions Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex, Pune
2024 Goa Challengers 8–2 Dabang Delhi TTC Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Chennai 8

Team squads

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Season 1 (2017)

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Team Players Coaches
Male Female
Falcons TTC Sweden 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 Challengers China 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 TTC Portugal 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 United Hong 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 Yoddhas Greece 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 Mavericks Portugal 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)

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Team Players Coaches
Male Female
Dabang Delhi TTC Japan 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 Mavericks Ukraine 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 TTC England 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 Challengers France 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 United Sweden 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 TTC Nigeria 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)

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Team Players Coaches
Male Female
Chennai Lions Portugal 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 TTC Sweden Jon Persson
India Sathiyan Gnanasekaran
India Parth Virmani
Romania Bernadette Szocs
India Krittwika Sinha Roy
India Naina
Slovenia Vesna Ojsteršek
India Sachin Shetty
Goa Challengers Spain 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 TT Chinese 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 Kolkata Germany 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 TT Kazakhstan 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)

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Team Players Coaches
Male Female
Bengaluru Smashers Kazakhstan Kirill Gerassimenko
India Sanil Shetty
India Ankur Bhattacharjee
Poland Natalia Bajor
India Manika Batra
India Poymantee Baisya
Slovenia Vesna Ojsteršek
India Sachin Shetty
Chennai Lions Germany 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 TTC Sweden 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 Challengers Spain 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 TTC Egypt 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 TT Nigeria 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)

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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]

Team Players Coaches
Male Female
Bengaluru Smashers Spain 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 Pipers France 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 TTC Austria 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 TT Nigeria 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 Challengers Italy 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 TT Portugal João Monteiro
India Anirban Ghosh
India Ankur Bhattacharjee
Germany Nina Mittelham
India Ayhika Mukherjee
India Yashini Sivashankar
Germany Jorg Bitzigeio
India Parag Agrawal
Jaipur Patriots South 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 Lions France 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

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Season 1

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Position Team Ties Matches Points
Played Won
1 Falcons TTC 5 3 27 78
2 Shazé Challengers 5 4 24 73
3 Dabang Delhi TTC 5 3 28 69
4 DHFL Maharashtra United 5 2 21 64
5 Oilmax-Stag Yoddhas 5 2 18 61
6 RP-SG Mavericks 5 1 17 60

Season 2

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Position Team Ties Matches Points
Played Won
1 Dabang Delhi TTC 5 3 23 63
2 RP-SG Mavericks 5 4 20 58
3 Falcons TTC 5 4 21 56
4 Maharashtra United 5 2 15 49
5 Warriors TTC 5 1 13 47
6 Empowerji Challengers 5 1 13 42

Season 3

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Position Team Ties Matches Points
Played Won
1 U Mumba TTC 5 4 16 44
2 Chennai Lions 5 3 14 42
3 Goa Challengers 5 3 15 41
4 Dabang Delhi TTC 5 3 13 41
5 RP-SG Mavericks 5 1 10 30
6 Puneri Paltan TT 5 1 7 27

Season 4

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Position Team Ties Matches Points
Played Won
1 Dabang Delhi TTC 5 3 14 42
2 Chennai Lions 5 2 14 41
3 Puneri Paltan TT 5 3 14 38
4 Goa Challengers 5 2 13 36
5 Bengaluru Smashers 5 3 15 35
6 U Mumba TT 5 2 8 33

Season 5

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Position Team Ties Matches Points
Played Won
1 Bengaluru Smashers 5 4 16 48
2 Ahmedabad SG Pipers 5 3 17 42
3 Dabang Delhi TTC 5 3 14 41
4 Goa Challengers 5 3 11 37
5 Chennai Lions 5 2 13 37
6 U Mumba TT 5 2 12 36
7 Puneri Paltan TT 5 2 10 31
8 Jaipur Patriots 4 1 7 28

References

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  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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