The Most Famous
TABLE TENNIS PLAYERS from India
This page contains a list of the greatest Indian Table Tennis Players. The pantheon dataset contains 107 Table Tennis Players, 2 of which were born in India. This makes India the birth place of the 17th most number of Table Tennis Players behind Ukraine, and Taiwan.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Indian Table Tennis Players of all time. This list of famous Indian Table Tennis Players is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Sharath Kamal (b. 1982)
With an HPI of 33.86, Sharath Kamal is the most famous Indian Table Tennis Player. His biography has been translated into 18 different languages on wikipedia.
Achanta Sharath Kamal (born 12 July 1982) is an Indian professional table tennis player. He is the first Indian table tennis player ever to become ten time Senior National Champion hence breaking the record of eight-time National Champion Kamlesh Mehta. In 2019 he was awarded the Padma Shri, India's fourth highest civilian award and in 2022, he was awarded the Khel Ratna Award, India's highest sporting honour. He beat Joo Se Hyuk and Chuang Chih-yuan, world no. 8 and 16 respectively in 2015 28th Asian cup at Jaipur. Sharath won the men's singles gold in the 16th Commonwealth table tennis championship held at Kuala Lumpur in 2004. He is a recipient of the Arjuna award for the year 2004. He won the Gold medal at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, beating crowd favourite Australian William Henzell in the final, apart from helping the Indian team clinch gold in the table tennis team event against Singapore. He teamed up with Subhajit Saha to win the Men's Doubles gold at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi. He won three medals in 2018 Commonwealth Games; Gold in men's team event; Silver in men's doubles; and bronze in men's singles event. Sharath qualified for the 2016 Rio Olympics after beating Iran's Noshad Alamian in the Asian Olympic qualification. However, he made a first round exit in the men's individual event. He is an alumnus of PSBB Nungambakkam school (class of 2000) and Loyola College, Chennai. He is employed with the Indian Oil Corporation as an officer.
2. Sutirtha Mukherjee (b. 1995)
With an HPI of 19.04, Sutirtha Mukherjee is the 2nd most famous Indian Table Tennis Player. Her biography has been translated into 8 different languages.
Sutirtha Mukherjee (born 10 October 1995) is an Indian table tennis player from West Bengal. She has won national table tennis championship and also was a part of gold medal winning Indian women's team at the 2018 Commonwealth Games. Mukherjee also represented India at the 2020 Summer Olympics and 2022 Asian Games.She won the bronze medal for India in women's doubles table tennis in the 2022 Asian Games.
People
Pantheon has 2 people classified as Indian table tennis players born between 1982 and 1995. Of these 2, 2 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Indian table tennis players include Sharath Kamal, and Sutirtha Mukherjee. As of April 2024, 2 new Indian table tennis players have been added to Pantheon including Sharath Kamal, and Sutirtha Mukherjee.
