Ultimate Table Tennis

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Ultimate Table Tennis (UTT)
File:Ultimate Table Tennis logo.jpg
FormerlyCEAT Ultimate Table Tennis
SportTable Tennis
Founded2017
Inaugural season2017
AdministratorTable Tennis Federation of India
PresidentVita Dani
No. of teams6
CountryIndia
Most recent
champion(s)		Chennai Lions (1st title)
(2019)
Most titlesChennai Lions, Dabang Delhi TTC and Falcons TTC (1 title each)
TV partner(s)Star Sports(live telecast)
Hotstar, Jio TV(online streaming)
Official websitewww.ultimatetabletennis.in

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. It is broadcast by Star Sports.[1][2][3][4][5]

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.[6]

Teams[edit]

Current teams[edit]

Locations of the six UTT teams
Team City Debut Stadium
Chennai Lions Chennai, Tamil Nadu 2019 Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium
Dabang Delhi TTC Delhi, NCR 2017 Thyagaraj Sports Complex
Goa Challengers Goa 2018 –
Puneri Paltan TT Pune, Maharashtra 2019 Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex
RP-SG Mavericks Kolkata Kolkata, West Bengal 2017 Netaji Indoor Stadium
U Mumba TT Mumbai, Maharashtra 2019 Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Indoor Stadium

Owners[edit]

Team Owners Indian Head coach Foreign Head coach Kit Manufacturer Kit Sponsor
Chennai Lions Aishwaryaa Rajinikanth Dhanush A Muralidhar Rao Germany Peter Engel
Dabang Delhi TTC Do It Sports Sachin Shetty SloveniaVesna Ojstersek T10 Sports ART
Goa Challengers Shrinivas Dempo, Vivek Bhargava Arup Basak NetherlandsBettine Vriesekoop Xiom Devashri Nirman LLP
Puneri Paltan TT Insurekot Sports Pvt. Ltd. Parg Agarwal PortugalFrancisco Santos Shiv-Naresh Kotak
RP-SG Mavericks Kolkata Sanjiv Goenka, Utsav Parekh N Ravichandran HungaryZoltan Batorgi Puma Inox
U Mumba TT U Sports Soumyadeep Roy United StatesJiaqi Zheng 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

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

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 6
2019 Chennai Lions 8–1 Dabang Delhi TTC Thyagaraj Sports Complex, New Delhi 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 13th July RP-SG Mavericks Falcons TTC 12:15 3:6
14th July Shazé Challengers Dabang Smashers TTC 15:12 5:4
15th July Oilmax-Stag Yoddhas DHFL Maharashtra United 12:15 3:6
16th July Dabang Smashers TTC Falcons TTC 14:13 5:4
17th July Oilmax-Stag Yoddhas Shazé Challengers 15:12 4:5
18th July DHFL Maharashtra United RP-SG Mavericks 16:11 6:3
19th July Oilmax-Stag Yoddhas Falcons TTC 5:22 1:8
20th July Dabang Smashers TTC RP-SG Mavericks 13:14 6:3
Delhi 21th July Shazé Challengers Falcons TTC 16:11 5:4
22nd July DHFL Maharashtra United Dabang Smashers TTC 11:16 1:8
23rd July Oilmax-Stag Yoddhas RP-SG Mavericks 16:11 6:3
24th July DHFL Maharashtra United Shazé Challengers 12:15 4:5
25th July Oilmax-Stag Yoddhas Dabang Smashers TTC 13:14 4:5
Mumbai 26th July DHFL Maharashtra United Falcons TTC 10:17 4:5
27th July Shazé Challengers RP-SG Mavericks 15:12 4:5
Play off, Semifinal 28th July Falcons TTC DHFL Maharashtra United 14:5 5:2
Play off, Semifinal 29th July Shazé Challengers Dabang Smashers TTC 14:9 5:3
Play off, Final 30th 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 14th June Maharashtra United Falcons TTC 10:11 2:5
15th June Empowerji Challengers RP-SG Mavericks 8:13 3:4
16th June Warriors TTC Dabang Smashers TTC 7:14 1:6
17th June Maharashtra United RP-SG Mavericks 10:11 3:4
18th June Dabang Smashers TTC Falcons TTC 17:4 6:1
19th June Warriors TTC Empowerji Challengers 14:7 5:2
Delhi 20th June Dabang Smashers TTC RP-SG Mavericks 8:13 3:4
21st June Maharashtra United Empowerji Challengers 6:15 1:6
22nd June Warriors TTC Falcons TTC 6:15 1:6
23rd June Maharashtra United Dabang Smashers TTC 12:9 5:2
24th June Falcons TTC Empowerji Challengers 15:6 5:2
25th June Warriors TTC RP-SG Mavericks 11:10 4:3
Kolkata 26th June Empowerji Challengers Dabang Smashers TTC 6:15 1:6
27th June Maharashtra United Warriors TTC 11:10 4:3
28th June RP-SG Mavericks Falcons TTC 10:11 3:4
Play off, Semifinal 29th June Dabang Smashers TTC Maharashtra United 11:10 4:3
Play off, Semifinal 30th June RP-SG Mavericks Falcons TTC 10:11 4:3
Play off, Final 1st 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 25th July Dabang Delhi TTC Puneri Paltan Table Tennis 7:8 2:3
26th July Chennai Lions U Mumba TTC 6:9 2:3
27th July RP-SG Mavericks Kolkata Goa Challengers 4:11 0:5
28th July Chennai Lions Puneri Paltan Table Tennis 10:5 3:2
29th July Dabang Delhi TTC U Mumba TTC 9:6 3:2
30th July RP-SG Mavericks Kolkata Puneri Paltan Table Tennis 11:4 5:0
31th July Chennai Lions Goa Challengers 8:7 3:2
1st August RP-SG Mavericks Kolkata U Mumba TTC 6:9 2:3
2nd August Dabang Delhi TTC Goa Challengers 7:8 2:3
3rd August Puneri Paltan Table Tennis U Mumba TTC 6:9 1:4
4th August Dabang Delhi TTC RP-SG Mavericks Kolkata 10:5 3:2
5th August U Mumba TTC Goa Challengers 11:4 4:1
6th August Chennai Lions RP-SG Mavericks Kolkata 11:4 4:1
7th August Puneri Paltan Table Tennis Goa Challengers 4:11 1:4
8th August Chennai Lions Dabang Delhi TTC 7:8 2:3
Play off, Semifinal 9th August U Mumba TTC Dabang Delhi TTC 7:8 2:3
Play off, Semifinal 10th August Chennai Lions Goa Challengers 8:7 3:2
Play off, Final 11th August Dabang Delhi TTC Chennai Lions 1:8 0:3

References[edit]

  1. ↑ "All you need to know about Ultimate Table Tennis". ESPN India. 11 July 2017. Retrieved 30 July 2019.
  2. ↑ "All about Ultimate Table Tennis". The Hindu. 28 June 2017. Retrieved 30 July 2019.
  3. ↑ "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.
  4. ↑ "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.
  5. ↑ "Ultimate Table Tennis 2019 | Schedule, Teams, Auction & Owners". Kreedon.com. 25 July 2019. Retrieved 30 July 2019.
  6. ↑ "Flawless Chennai Lions are new UTT champions – Times of India". The Times of India. Retrieved 2020-03-03.

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