Paris Olympics 2024: ‘We Really Have A Very Good Chance Of Beating Any Team’ Says Table Tennis Star Harmeet Desai

New Delhi: After taking part in a obligatory role in securing Commonwealth Games gold medals for India in 2018 and 2022, superstar paddler Harmeet Desai is brimming with self belief in regards to the Indian team’s prospects at the Paris Olympics. Desai firmly believes that the Indian squad has the potential to upset any opponent, emphasizing that their book is on goal to reach peak noted efficiency inside of the French capital.

Beforehand this 12 months, the Indian desk tennis contingent made heritage by manner of qualifying each the guys’s and girls’s teams for the Olympics for the most time. Preparatory camps, held in Bengaluru from June 7-sixteen and in Saarbrucken, Germany beforehand this month, have centered on perfecting team mixtures for the Paris Olympics, scheduled from July 26 to August Eleven.

“On a given day, I suppose we definitely have a super chance of beating any team. We've won against pinnacle teams on this planet beforehand and it definitely is much workable this time also if we supply our greatest. Inside the Olympics, if all three of us can put on the super tutor then whatsoever else is workable,” the 31-12 months-historic cited inside of the long-term of an interview with Bigger-rated Desk Tennis.

Desai joins forces with Achanta Sharath Kamal, Manav Thakkar, and Sathiyan Gnanasekaran as a point of the formidable Indian guys’s desk tennis team. Furthermore team hobbies, Desai also will compete inside of the persona hobbies.

His self belief is effectively-based, as the Indian guys’s team achieved a uncommon victory over powerhouse Japan inside of the quarter-finals to protected a bronze medal at the 2018 Asian Games.

Reflecting on the upward thrust of Indian desk tennis on the international stage, Desai credited the imperative authorities’s genuinely an important fluctuate initiatives and the launch of Bigger-rated Desk Tennis in 2017 for substantially advancing the game’s enchancment.

“UTT has helped us get additional experience and exposure to play with international avid gamers and get book from in another country coaches. That grew to grow to be no longer the case beforehand than 2017. So, definitely this variety of experience has helped the avid gamers get additional self-belief and goal effectively inside of the international local,” he cited.

The Indian guys’s team is set for a thrilling opening spherical against China, when the girls’s team will kick off their merchandising crusade against Romania. The persona hobbies will take location from July 27 to August four, obvious by manner of the team hobbies from August 5 to 10.

After the Paris Olympics, India’s representatives at the Games and upcoming competencies from the usa will rub shoulders against every distinct and some international stars inside of the IndianOil Bigger-rated Desk Tennis 2024, scheduled to take location in Chennai from August 22 to September 7.