Two of the three members of India’s men’s table tennis team at the Paris Olympic Games 2024 hail from Surat: Harmeet Desai (30) and Manav Thakkar (24), currently ranked 1 and 2 in India respectively. They will be led by Sharath Kamal from Tamil Nadu, a five-time Olympian.
Meanwhile, Ahmedabad’s Elavenil Valarivan is set to compete in the women’s 10m air rifle event, hoping to redeem herself after the Tokyo 2021 Olympics.
Harmeet Desai, star with a legacy
Harmeet, India’s top-ranked paddler, had a stellar June 2023, solidifying his position as India’s highest-ranked player in world rankings.
Talking to Mirror, Archana Desai, Harmeet’s mother, said, “He picked up the game when he was five-and-a-half years old. Even as a little kid, he developed an undying passion for the game and used to play with us at night until he won a match, and then he would go to sleep.”
This story is from the July 27, 2024 edition of Ahmedabad Mirror.
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