The second version of India’s greatest desk tennis event, the WTT Star Contender can be held in Goa from January 23 to 28 subsequent 12 months.
World Desk Tennis (WTT), conceptualised by the Worldwide Desk Tennis Federation in 2019, serves because the epicentre for skilled males’s and ladies’s desk tennis occasions globally.
The collection encompasses a mess of occasions all year long, with the 4 Grand Smashes standing out because the highest-ranked tournaments.
The event is part of the six-star Contender collection occasions the place solely the top-30 gamers are eligible to take part, with six gamers obligatory from the highest 20 on the earth rankings.
The event boasts of a prize pool of USD 250,000 and rating factors can be up for grabs. The occasion can also be a qualifier for the WTT Cup Finals and WTT Champions Sequence.
“Taking part in towards world-class gamers or watching them from shut quarters all the time conjures up the youthful era. This event is a good alternative for our Indian gamers,” Desk Tennis Federation of India (TTFI) secretary-general Kamlesh Mehta stated in a launch.
The primary version of the WTT Star Contender Goa passed off earlier this 12 months and had among the world’s greatest stars on present, together with world No. 1 Fan Zhendong, Japanese prodigy Tomokazu Harimoto, world No. four Wang Yidi, and World No. 5 Hina Hayata.
Apart from, the event additionally noticed the participation of 40 Indian gamers, which was the best for a WTT occasion.
China’s Liang Jingkun and Yidi had received the lads’s and ladies’s singles titles respectively within the inaugural version of the event.
The event can be co-hosted by Stupa Sports activities Analytics and Final Desk Tennis below the steering of TTFI.