Debutants kolkata thunderblades

Ahmedabad SG Pipers: Debutants Kolkata ThunderBlades will kick off their Table Tennis (UTT) Season 6 campaign against Stanley’s Chennai Lions on Monday in the day’s first tie. Following that, U Mumba TT will clash with Western rivals Ahmedabad SG Pipers in a highly anticipated derby.

Led by an all-star foreguard of Olympians Aruna Quadri and Adriana Diaz, as well as India’s 18-year-old sensation Ankur Bhattacharjee, Kolkata ThunderBlades are well-positioned to make an impact in their debut season. Aruna (World Ranking 27), returning for his fifth season with UTT, is the highest-ranked men’s player this season, while Diaz (WR17), back for her second assignment after 2018, is the second-highest-ranked women’s player.

All eyes, however, will be on Ankur, who was the undisputed find of the previous season. Storming into the arena with unbridled intensity, Ankur won four of his five matches and 10 of the 15 games he contested–at a win rate of 66.67, the second-highest in Season 5–and stacked high across the board in terms of numbers in a breakout campaign.