Table tennis in India

Country	India
Governing body	Table Tennis Federation of India
National team(s)	India
First played	c. 1926

Table tennis is a popular indoor recreation sport in India, which has caught on in states like West Bengal, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, and Gujarat. The Table Tennis Federation of India is the official sports body. As of February 2019, India's men's team ranked 10th and women's team ranked 22nd in the world. India has produced singles player ranked in the top 50 both in the Men's and Women's category,

Total medals won by Indian Paddlers in Major tournaments

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

• updated till 31st July, 2024

Notable Performance at Summer Olympics

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

List of National Sports award recipients in Table Tennis, showing the year, award, and gender

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

Key

+ Indicates a Lifetime contribution honour

External links

• Web site of the Table Tennis Federation of India