A total of nine qualification places for the Tokyo Olympics will be up for grabs for India’s table tennis stars when the World Singles Qualification Tournament gets underway at the Ali Bin Hamad Al Attiya Arena in Doha, Qatar between 14-17 March 2021.
The quotas for the WSQT were confirmed following the latest update of the 2021 calendar and current planning of pending qualification events.
Other factors that were also taken into consideration included qualification events that were either pending or completed, the number of players who have already qualified in one or multiple events (singles, teams, mixed doubles) and the total number of table tennis quotas that have been reserved and are available.
For India, world no 63 Manika Batra and world no 96 Sutirtha Mukherjee will be taking part in the women’s competition while world no 32 Achanta Sharath Kamal and world no 38 Sathiyan Gnanasekaran will try their luck in the men’s competition.
Batra and Sathiyan recently…