All Nepal Table Tennis Association (ANTTA) today selected 10 players through competition in the Secondary phase of the selection process for the 2021 Asian Table Tennis Championships.
Five males and five females have been selected through the competition held at Lainchaur Table Tennis Hall today. In the men’s category, Amar Lal Malla, Bilosh Shrestha, Bipul Maharjan, Ritiz Joshi and Pradip Roka were selected. Likewise, Sushmita Khadka, Nikita Kasti, Diya Deula, Bianca Rai and Evana Thapa Magar were selected in the women’s category.
In today’s open selection, people from across the country were allowed to compete.
A national coach of Table Tennis, Rajendra Kapali, told NepalNews that 40 males and 20 females participated in the secondary qualification competition today.
Ten players selected from today’s competition will next compete with 10 qualifiers who were SAF medalists.
Kapali says, “Earlier, we had a plan to include the SAF medalists to the secondary qualification as well but due to the risk of COVID-19 infections and to minimize the gatherings, we decided to include them directly in the final qualification only.”
Three male and three female players will be selected for the Asian Championship through the final qualifying competition scheduled to be held on August 19 and 20.
2021 Asian Table Tennis Championships will be held in Qatar from September 28 to October 5.
