Ultimate_Table_Tennis Knowpia

Ultimate Table Tennis (UTT)
Sport	Table Tennis
Founded	2017
First season	2017
Owner(s)	11sports
President	Vita Dani
Administrator	Table Tennis Federation of India
No. of teams	6
Country	India
Most recent; champion(s)	Chennai Lions (1st title) ; (2019)
Most titles	Chennai Lions, Dabang Delhi TTC and Falcons TTC (1 title each)
TV partner(s)	Sports18
Streaming partner(s)	JioCinema
Official website	Official website

The Ultimate Table Tennis is a professional level table tennis league in India. It was launched in 2017 and contested by 6 teams. It is organized by 11Sports promoted by Niraj Bajaj and Vita Dani and held under the aegis of Table Tennis Federation of India.^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6]

The current champions are Chennai Lions, who won the title in their debut season after defeating the defending champions Dabang Delhi TTC in the season 3 finals in 2019.^[7]

Teams edit

Current teams edit

Chennai Lions

Dabang Delhi TTC

Goa Challengers

Puneri Paltan TT

U Mumba TT

Bengaluru Smashers

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Locations of the six UTT teams

	City	Debut	Stadium
Chennai Lions	Chennai, Tamil Nadu	2019	Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium
Dabang Delhi TTC	Delhi, NCR	2017	Thyagaraj Sports Complex
Goa Challengers	Goa	2017	–
Puneri Paltan TT	Pune, Maharashtra	2019	Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex
U Mumba TT	Mumbai, Maharashtra	2019	Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Indoor Stadium
Bengaluru Smashers	Bengaluru, Karnataka	2023	TBD

Team	Owners	Indian Head coach	Foreign Head coach	Kit Manufacturer	Kit Sponsor
Chennai Lions	Harini Yadav, Karishma Yadav	Somnath Ghosh	Jorg Bitzigeio
Dabang Delhi TTC	Radha Kapoor Khanna	A Muralidhara Rao	Slobodan Grujic	T10 Sports	ART
Goa Challengers	Shrinivas Dempo, Vivek Bhargava	Parag Agarwal	Elena Timina	Xiom	Devashri Nirman LLP
Puneri Paltan Table Tennis	Insurekot Sports Pvt. Ltd.	N Ravichandran	Zoltan Batorfi	Shiv-Naresh	Kotak
Bengaluru Smashers	Punit Balan	Sachin Shetty	Vesna Ojstersek
U Mumba TTC	U Sports	Anshul Garg	Francisco Santos		UpGrad

Former teams edit

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

Tournament seasons and results edit

There have been three seasons so far with three different winners. Falcons TTC and Dabang Delhi TTC have been in finals two times.

Season	Final			Final venue	Number of teams
Season	Winner	Result	Runner-up	Final venue	Number of teams
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	6
2019	Chennai Lions	8:1	Dabang Delhi TTC	Thyagaraj Sports Complex, New Delhi	6
2023	Goa Challengers	8:7	Chennai Lions	Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex, Pune	6

Season 2017 edit

Tie edit

A tie is an encounter between two teams and consists of nine 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.

Format edit

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 edit

Team	Players (male)	Players (female)	Coaches
Falcons TTC	Par Gerell, Liam Pitchford, Sanil Shetty, Arjun Ghosh	Wu Yang, Lee Ho Ching, Sutirtha Mukherjee, Priyadarshini Das	Francisco Santos, Soumyadeep Roy
Shazé Challengers	Li Ping, Andrej Gacina, Soumyajit Ghosh, Manav Thakkar	Han Ying, Petrissa Solja, Mouma Das, Moumita Datta	Elena Timia, A. Muralidhara Rao
Dabang Smashers TTC	Marcos Freitas, Kou Lei, Sathiyan Gnanasekaran, A. Amalraj	Hu Melek, Tetyana Bilenko, Madhurika Patkar, Mousumi Paul	Ilija Lupulesku, N. Ravichandran
DHFL Maharashtra United	Wong Chun Ting, Joao Monteiro, Harmeet Desai, Ronit Bhanja	Liu Jia, Fu Yu, Krittwika Sinha Roy, Pooja Sahasrabudhe	Ferenc Karsai, Arup Basak
Oilmax-Stag Yoddhas	Panagiotis Gionis, Quadri Aruna, Jubin Kumar, Abhishek Yadav	Doo Hoi Kem, Polina Mikhailova, Manika Batra, Selena D Selvakumar	Vesna Ojstersek, Sandeep Gupta
RP-SG Mavericks	Tiago Apolonia, Stefan Fegerl, Sharath Kamal, Birdie Boro	Sofia Polcanova, Sabine Winter, Archana Kamath, Amrutha Pushpak	Peter Engel, Sachin Shetty

Table edit

Pos.	Team	Ties played	Ties won	Matches won	Team points
1	Falcons TTC	5	3	27	78
2	Shazé Challengers	5	4	24	73
3	Dabang Smashers 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

Schedule edit

Stage	Venue	Date	Team 1	Team 2	Games	Matches
Round robin	Chennai	13 July	RP-SG Mavericks	Falcons TTC	12:15	3:6
		14 July	Shazé Challengers	Dabang Smashers TTC	15:12	5:4
		15 July	Oilmax-Stag Yoddhas	DHFL Maharashtra United	12:15	3:6
		16 July	Dabang Smashers TTC	Falcons TTC	14:13	5:4
		17 July	Oilmax-Stag Yoddhas	Shazé Challengers	15:12	4:5
		18 July	DHFL Maharashtra United	RP-SG Mavericks	16:11	6:3
		19 July	Oilmax-Stag Yoddhas	Falcons TTC	5:22	1:8
		20 July	Dabang Smashers TTC	RP-SG Mavericks	13:14	6:3
	Delhi	21 July	Shazé Challengers	Falcons TTC	16:11	5:4
		22 July	DHFL Maharashtra United	Dabang Smashers TTC	11:16	1:8
		23 July	Oilmax-Stag Yoddhas	RP-SG Mavericks	16:11	6:3
		24 July	DHFL Maharashtra United	Shazé Challengers	12:15	4:5
		25 July	Oilmax-Stag Yoddhas	Dabang Smashers TTC	13:14	4:5
	Mumbai	26 July	DHFL Maharashtra United	Falcons TTC	10:17	4:5
		27 July	Shazé Challengers	RP-SG Mavericks	15:12	4:5
Play off, Semifinal		28 July	Falcons TTC	DHFL Maharashtra United	14:5	5:2
Play off, Semifinal		29 July	Shazé Challengers	Dabang Smashers TTC	14:9	5:3
Play off, Final		30 July	Falcons TTC	Shazé Challengers	14:9	4:3

Season 2018 edit

Format edit

No.	Type	Player A	Player B
1	WS	Indian	Foreign
2	MS	Foreign	Indian
3	XD	Foreign or Indian	Foreign or Indian
4	MS	Foreign	Foreign
5	WS	Foreign	Foreign
6	MS	Indian	Foreign
7	WS	Foreign	Indian

Teams edit

Team	Players (male)	Players (female)	Coaches
Dabang Smashers TTC	Yoshida Masaki, Cedric Nuytinck, Sathiyan Gnanasekaran, Sanish Ambekar	Sakura Mori, Adriana Diaz, Archana Kamath, Manika Batra	Andrei Filimon, Sachin Shetty
RP-SG Mavericks	Kou Lei, Mattias Karlsson, Harmeet Desai, Siddhesh Pande	Doo Hoi Kem, Sabine Winter, Ayhika Mukherjee, Mouma Das	Elena Timina, Arup Basak
Falcons TTC	Liam Pitchford, Alvaro Robles, Sanil Shetty, Ronit Bhanja	Bernadette Szocs, Matilda Ekholm, Sutirtha Mukherjee, Priyagarshini Das	Vesna Ojstersek, Soumyadeep Roy
Empowerji Challengers	Simon Gauzy, Tiago Apolonia, Manav Thakkar, Arjun Ghosh	Lee Ho Ching, Georgina Pota, Divya Deshpande, Prapti Sen	Peter Engel, A. Muralidhara Rao
Maharashtra United	Kristian Karlsson, Joao Monteiro, Anthony Amalraj, Utkarsh Gupta	Elizabeta Samara, Lily Zhang, Madhurika Patkar, Selena D Selvakumar	Francisco Santos, N. Ravichandran
Yoddhas Warriors TTC	Quadri Aruna, Chuang Chih-Yuan, Sharath Kamal, Ravindra Kotiyan	Sofia Polcanova, Hana Matelova, Pooja Sahasrabudhe, Sreeja Akula	Ferenc Karsai, Sandeep Gupta

Table edit

Pos.	Team	Ties played	Ties won	Matches won	Team points
1	Dabang Smashers 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

Schedule edit

Stage	Venue	Date	Team 1	Team 2	Games	Matches
Round robin	Pune	14 June	Maharashtra United	Falcons TTC	10:11	2:5
		15 June	Empowerji Challengers	RP-SG Mavericks	8:13	3:4
		16 June	Warriors TTC	Dabang Smashers TTC	7:14	1:6
		17 June	Maharashtra United	RP-SG Mavericks	10:11	3:4
		18 June	Dabang Smashers TTC	Falcons TTC	17:4	6:1
		19 June	Warriors TTC	Empowerji Challengers	14:7	5:2
	Delhi	20 June	Dabang Smashers TTC	RP-SG Mavericks	8:13	3:4
		21 June	Maharashtra United	Empowerji Challengers	6:15	1:6
		22 June	Warriors TTC	Falcons TTC	6:15	1:6
		23 June	Maharashtra United	Dabang Smashers TTC	12:9	5:2
		24 June	Falcons TTC	Empowerji Challengers	15:6	5:2
		25 June	Warriors TTC	RP-SG Mavericks	11:10	4:3
	Kolkata	26 June	Empowerji Challengers	Dabang Smashers TTC	6:15	1:6
		27 June	Maharashtra United	Warriors TTC	11:10	4:3
		28 June	RP-SG Mavericks	Falcons TTC	10:11	3:4
Play off, Semifinal		29 June	Dabang Smashers TTC	Maharashtra United	11:10	4:3
Play off, Semifinal		30 June	RP-SG Mavericks	Falcons TTC	10:11	4:3
Play off, Final		1 July	Dabang Smashers TTC	Falcons TTC	11:7	4:2

Season 2019 edit

Format edit

No.	Type	Player A	Player B
1	WS	Foreign or Indian	Foreign or Indian
2	MS	Foreign or Indian	Foreign or Indian
3	XD	Foreign or Indian	Foreign or Indian
4	MS	Foreign or Indian	Foreign or Indian
5	WS	Foreign or Indian	Foreign or Indian

Teams edit

Team	Players (male)	Players (female)	Coaches
Chennai Lions	Tiago Apolonia, Sharath Kamal, Anirban Ghosh	Petrissa Solja, Madhurika Patkar, Yashini Sivansakar	Peter Engel, A. Muralidhara Rao
Dabang Delhi TTC	Jon Persson, Sathiyan Gnanasekaran, Parth Virmani	Bernadette Szocs, Krittwika Sinha Roy, Naina	Vesna Ojstersek, Sachin Shetty
Goa Challengers	Alvaro Robles, Amalraj Anthony, Siddhesh Pande	Cheng I-Ching, Archana Kamath, Shruti Amrute	Elena Timina, Arup Basak
Puneri Paltan Table Tennis	Chuang Chih-Yuan, Harmeet Desai, Ronit Bhanja	Sabine Winter, Ayhika Mukherjee, Selena Selvakumar	Francisco Santos, Parag Agrawal
RP-SG Mavericks Kolkata	Benedikt Duda, Sanil Shetty, Manush Shah	Matilda Ekholm, Manika Batra, Prapti Sen	Zoltan Batorfi, N. Ravichandran
U Mumba TT	Kirill Gerassimenko, Manav Thakkar, Jeet Chandra	Doo Hoi Kem, Sutirtha Mukherjee, Moumita Dutta	Jiaqi Zheng, Soumyadeep Roy

Table edit

Pos.	Team	Ties played	Ties won	Matches won	Team points
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 Table Tennis	5	1	7	27

Schedule edit

Stage	Venue	Date	Team 1	Team 2	Games	Matches
Round robin	Delhi	25 July	Dabang Delhi TTC	Puneri Paltan Table Tennis	7:8	2:3
		26 July	Chennai Lions	U Mumba TTC	6:9	2:3
		27 July	RP-SG Mavericks Kolkata	Goa Challengers	4:11	0:5
		28 July	Chennai Lions	Puneri Paltan Table Tennis	10:5	3:2
		29 July	Dabang Delhi TTC	U Mumba TTC	9:6	3:2
		30 July	RP-SG Mavericks Kolkata	Puneri Paltan Table Tennis	11:4	5:0
		31 July	Chennai Lions	Goa Challengers	8:7	3:2
		1 August	RP-SG Mavericks Kolkata	U Mumba TTC	6:9	2:3
		2 August	Dabang Delhi TTC	Goa Challengers	7:8	2:3
		3 August	Puneri Paltan Table Tennis	U Mumba TTC	6:9	1:4
		4 August	Dabang Delhi TTC	RP-SG Mavericks Kolkata	10:5	3:2
		5 August	U Mumba TTC	Goa Challengers	11:4	4:1
		6 August	Chennai Lions	RP-SG Mavericks Kolkata	11:4	4:1
		7 August	Puneri Paltan Table Tennis	Goa Challengers	4:11	1:4
		8 August	Chennai Lions	Dabang Delhi TTC	7:8	2:3
Play off, Semifinal		9 August	U Mumba TTC	Dabang Delhi TTC	7:8	2:3
Play off, Semifinal		10 August	Chennai Lions	Goa Challengers	8:7	3:2
Play off, Final		11 August	Dabang Delhi TTC	Chennai Lions	1:8	0:3

Season 2023 edit

Format edit

No.	Type	Player A	Player B
1	MS	Foreign or Indian	Foreign or Indian
2	WS	Foreign or Indian	Foreign or Indian
3	XD	Foreign or Indian	Foreign or Indian
4	MS	Foreign or Indian	Foreign or Indian
5	WS	Foreign or Indian	Foreign or Indian

Teams edit

Team	Players (male)	Players (female)	Coaches
Bengaluru Smashers	Kirill Gerassimenko, Sanil Shetty, Ankur Bhattacharjee	Natalia Bajor, Manika Batra, Poymantee Baisya	Vesna Ojstersek, Sachin Shetty
Chennai Lions	Benedikt Duda, Sharath Kamal Achanta, Payas Jain	Liu Yangzi, Sutirtha Mukherjee, Prapti Sen	Jörg Bitzigeio Somnath Ghosh
Dabang Delhi TTC	Jon Persson, Sathiyan Gnanasekaran, Anirban Ghosh	Barbora Balazova, Ayhika Mukherjee, Sreeja Akula	Slobodan Grujic, A Muralidhara Rao
Goa Challengers	Alvaro Robles, Amalraj Anthony, Harmeet Desai	Suthasini Sawettabut, Reeth Tennison, Krittwika Roy	Elena Timina, Parag Agrawal
Puneri Paltan TTC	Omar Assar, Manush Shah, Snehit SFR	Hana Matelova, Archana Kamath, Anusha Kutumbale	Zoltan Batorfi, N Ravichandran
U Mumba TT	Quadri Aruna, Manav Thakkar, Sudhanshu Grover	Lily Zhang, Mouma Das, Diya Chitale	Francisco Santos, Anshul Garg

Table edit

Pos.	Team	Ties played	Ties won	Matches won	Team points
1	Dabang Delhi TTC	5	3	14	42
2	Chennai Lions	5	2	14	41
3	Puneri Paltan TTC	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

Schedule edit

Stage	Venue	Date	Team 1	Team 2	Games	Matches
Round robin	Pune	13 July	Puneri Paltan TTC	Chennai Lions	5:10	1:4
		14 July	U Mumba TT	Bengaluru Smashers	10:5	3:2
		15 July	Dabang Delhi TTC	Goa Challengers	5:10	1:4
		16 July	Chennai Lions	U Mumba TT	7:8	2:3
		17 July	Puneri Paltan TTC	Goa Challengers	8:7	3:2
		18 July	Bengaluru Smashers	Dabang Delhi TTC	5:10	1:4
		19 July	Goa Challengers	U Mumba TT	9:6	4:1
		20 July	Chennai Lions	Bengaluru Smashers	7:8	2:3
		21 July	Dabang Delhi TTC	Puneri Paltan TTC	7:8	2:3
		22 July	Goa Challengers	Chennai Lions	4:11	1:4
		23 July	Puneri Paltan TTC	Bengaluru Smashers	7:8	2:3
		24 July	Dabang Delhi TTC	U Mumba TT	11:4	4:1
		25 July	Bengaluru Smashers	Goa Challengers	9:6	3:2
		26 July	Chennai Lions	Dabang Delhi TTC	6:9	2:3
		27 July	U Mumba TT	Puneri Paltan TTC	5:10	0:5
Play off, Semifinal		28 July	Dabang Delhi TTC	Goa Challengers	7:8	2:3
Play off, Semifinal		29 July	Chennai Lions	Puneri Paltan TTC	8:3	3:0
Play off, Final		30 July	Goa Challengers	Chennai Lions	8:7	2:3

References edit

^ "Ultimate Table Tennis 2023: Schedule, Results, Points Table, Telecast & Live Streaming Info Of UTT Season 4 - myKhel". Retrieved 28 August 2023.
^ "All you need to know about Ultimate Table Tennis". ESPN India. 11 July 2017. Retrieved 30 July 2019.
^ "All about Ultimate Table Tennis". The Hindu. 28 June 2017. Retrieved 30 July 2019.
^ "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.
^ "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.
^ "Ultimate Table Tennis 2019 | Schedule, Teams, Auction & Owners". Kreedon.com. 25 July 2019. Retrieved 30 July 2019.
^ "Flawless Chennai Lions are new UTT champions – Times of India". The Times of India. 11 August 2019. Retrieved 3 March 2020.

External links edit

Official website

[1] "Ultimate Table Tennis 2023: Schedule, Results, Points Table, Telecast & Live Streaming Info Of UTT Season 4 - myKhel". Retrieved 28 August 2023.

[ESPN-2] "All you need to know about Ultimate Table Tennis". ESPN India. 11 July 2017. Retrieved 30 July 2019.

[The_Hindu-3] "All about Ultimate Table Tennis". The Hindu. 28 June 2017. Retrieved 30 July 2019.

[Sportskeeda-4] "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.

[Firstpost-5] "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.

[Kreedon-6] "Ultimate Table Tennis 2019 | Schedule, Teams, Auction & Owners". Kreedon.com. 25 July 2019. Retrieved 30 July 2019.

[7] "Flawless Chennai Lions are new UTT champions – Times of India". The Times of India. 11 August 2019. Retrieved 3 March 2020.

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