Shillong April 18: The 83rd Senior National Table Tennis Championship kicked-off in the city on Monday.
The Championship is being held at the Sports Authority of India (SAI) Indoor Training Centre in North Eastern Hill University (NEHU) campus.
In this Championship, the Meghalayan side is represented by a team of 14 players including Tanushree Das Gupta – the North East Olympics 2018 Gold medalist.
450 paddlers from all over the country are participating in the National Championship, with some of the star paddlers being Manika Batra, Achnata Sharath Kamal, Sathiyan Gnabasekaran and Sutirtha Mukherjee.
The 14 paddlers from Meghalaya include:
Suranjit Dey, Anubhav Dutta, T Yogesh Singh, Rituraj Shabong, Z Somiyar, Sumesh Gareri and Prithvi Dey, while the women’s contingent comprises Tanushree Das Gupta, Camelia Diengdoh, Anwesha Choudhury, Wanpyntngen Lyngdoh, Diva Tang, Chuana R Marak and Badaihun Diengdoh.
