Table tennis in India

Country	India
Governing body	Table Tennis Federation of India
National team(s)	See below
Club competitions
	Ultimate Table Tennis (2017–present)

Table tennis is a popular indoor recreation sport in India. It has gained popularity in states like West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, and Maharashtra. The official governing body of the sport in India is the Table Tennis Federation of India. As of Sep 2024, the men's team is ranked 12th in the world while the women's team is ranked 10th. India has produced many singles players that have ranked in the top 50 in both categories.^[1]

Medal table

Competition	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
World Championships	0	0	1	1
Asian Games	0	0	3	3
Asian Cup	0	1	1	2
Asian Championships	3	4	4	11
Commonwealth Games	10	5	13	28
Total	13	10	22	45

Updated till 31st July 2024

Current rankings

Men's singles

#	Player	Rank	Points
1	Sharath Kamal	38	668
2	Manav Thakkar	57	445
3	Sathiyan Gnanasekaran	63	392
4	Harmeet Desai	85	271
5	Manush Shah	114	185

Women's singles

#	Player	Rank	Points
1	Sreeja Akula	23	1040
2	Manika Batra	28	906
3	Sutirtha Mukherjee	85	279
4	Yashaswini Ghorpade	87	273
5	Ayhika Mukherjee	92	245

Men's doubles

#	Players	Rank	Points
1	Manav Thakkar Manush Shah	16	905
2	Harmeet Desai Manav Thakkar	37	405
3	Sharath Kamal Sathiyan Gnanasekaran	70	167

Women's doubles

#	Players	Rank	Points
1	Sutirtha Mukherjee Ayhika Mukherjee	16	815
2	Diya Chitale Yashaswini Ghorpade	26	584
3	Sreeja Akula Archana Kamath	38	400

Mixed doubles

#	Players	Rank	Points
1	Diya Chitale Manush Shah	14	794
2	Harmeet Desai Yashaswini Ghorpade	28	475
3	Manav Thakkar Archana Kamath	29	464

Notable Olympics performance

Year	Event	Player	Result
2024
2024	Women's team	Sreeja Akula Manika Batra Archana Kamath	Quarterfinals

National award recipients

Year	Recipient	Award	Gender
2020	Manika Batra	Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna	Female
2022	Sharath Kamal	Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna	Male
1961	J. C. Vohra	Arjuna Award	Male
1964	Gautam R. Diwan	Arjuna Award	Male
1966	Usha Sunder Das	Arjuna Award	Female
1967	Faruk R. Khodaiji	Arjuna Award	Male
1969	Mir Khasim Ali	Arjuna Award	Male
1970	Gudalore Jagannath	Arjuna Award	Male
1971	Kaity Farookh Khodaiji	Arjuna Award	Female
1973	Niraj Ramkrishna Bajaj	Arjuna Award	Male
1976	Shailaja Salokhe	Arjuna Award	Female
1979–1980	Indu Puri	Arjuna Award	Female
1980–1981	Manjit Dua	Arjuna Award	Male
1982	Venugopal Chandrasekhar	Arjuna Award	Male
1985	Kamlesh Mehta	Arjuna Award	Male
1987	Monalisa Baruah Mehta	Arjuna Award	Female
1989	Niyati Shah	Arjuna Award	Female
1990	M. S. Walia	Arjuna Award	Male
1997	Chetan Baboor	Arjuna Award	Male
1998	Subramaniam Raman	Arjuna Award	Male
2002	Mantu Ghosh	Arjuna Award	Female
2004	Sharath Kamal	Arjuna Award	Male
2005	Soumyadeep Roy	Arjuna Award	Male
2006	Subhajit Saha	Arjuna Award	Male
2009	Poulomi Ghatak	Arjuna Award	Female
2013	Mouma Das	Arjuna Award	Female
2016	Soumyajit Ghosh	Arjuna Award	Male
2017	Anthony Amalraj	Arjuna Award	Male
2018	Manika Batra	Arjuna Award	Female
2018	Sathiyan Gnanasekaran	Arjuna Award	Male
2019	Harmeet Desai	Arjuna Award	Male
2020	Madhurika Patkar	Arjuna Award	Female
2022	Sreeja Akula	Arjuna Award	Female
2019	Arup Basak	Dhyan Chand Award	Male
2012	Bhawani Mukherjee ⁺	Dronacharya Award	Male
2018	A. Srinivasa Rao	Dronacharya Award	Male
2019	Sandip Gupta	Dronacharya Award	Male
2021	Subramanian Raman	Dronacharya Award	Male