Ultimate Table Tennis Explained

Ultimate Table Tennis is a professional level table tennis league in India.^[4] Launched in 2017, it consists of 8 teams.^[5] The league is held by Table Tennis Federation of India.^[6] The 2024 champions are Goa Challengers who defeated Dabang Delhi TTC in the finals.

Falcons TTC won the first season with a 14–9 score against Shazé Challengers. Dabang Delhi TTC won the second season with a 11–7 result against defending champs Falcons TTC. Chennai Lions won their season three victory with an 8–1 score against defending champions Dabang Delhi TTC. Season four saw Goa Challengers winning with an 8–7 game against defenders Chennai Lions.

Goa Challengers defended their title with an 8–2 win over Dabang Delhi TTC in season 5.

Format

A tie is an encounter between 2 teams and consists of 9 matches. Every match consists of three games. Every game is played up to eleven points. The team, that have won the most games of a tie is the winner.

No.	Type	Player A	Player B
1	MS	Foreign	Indian
2	WS	Indian	Foreign
3	XD	Foreign / Indian	Foreign / Indian
4	MS	Foreign	Foreign
5	WS	Foreign	Foreign
6	MS	Indian	Foreign
7	WS	Foreign	Indian
8	MS	Foreign	Foreign
9	WS	Foreign	Foreign

Teams

Current teams

Team		City	Debut	Stadium	Coaches	Owner
	Ahmedabad SG Pipers	Ahmedabad, Gujarat	2024		Jay Modak Francisco Santos	SG Sports Entertainment Private Limited
	Bengaluru Smashers	Bengaluru, Karnataka	2023		Anshuman Roy Elena Timina	Punit Balan
	Chennai Lions	Chennai, Tamil Nadu	2019	Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium	Subin Kumar Tobias Bergman	Harini Yadav Karishma Yadav
	Dabang Delhi TTC	Delhi, NCR	2017	Thyagaraj Sports Complex	Sachin Shetty Vesna Ojstersek	Radha Kapoor Khanna
	Goa Challengers	Goa	2017		Subhajit Saha Zoltan Batorfi	Shrinivas Dempo Vivek Bhargava
	Jaipur Patriots	Jaipur, Rajasthan	2024		Somnath Ghosh Ronald Redep	World of Krida Private Limited
	Puneri Paltan TT	Pune, Maharashtra	2019	Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex	Parag Agrawal Jorg Bitzigeio	Insurekot Sports Pvt. Ltd.
	U Mumba TT	Mumbai, Maharashtra	2019	Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Indoor Stadium	Anshul Garg John Murphy	Unilazer Ventures Pvt. Ltd.

Former teams

Team	Debut	Dissolved	Owner
Falcons TTC	2017	2018	Rizwan Amlani
Shazé Challengers	2017	2017	Vivek Bhargava
Oilmax-Stag Yoddhas	2017	2017	Oilmax Energy Pvt Ltd Stag International
Maharashtra United	2017	2018	DHFL
Warriors TTC	2018	2018
RP-SG Mavericks Kolkata	2017	2019	Sanjiv Goenka Utsav Parekh

Seasons and results

There have been five seasons of Ultimate Table Tennis. Goa Challengers have won the league two times in 2023 and 2024. Dabang Delhi TTC have been in the finals thrice and won it once. Chennai Lions have been in the finals twice and won it once.

Year	Final			Venue	Total teams
	Winner	Result	Runner-up
2017	Falcons TTC	14–9	Shazé Challengers	Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Indoor Stadium, Mumbai	6
2018	Dabang Delhi TTC	11–7	Falcons TTC	Netaji Indoor Stadium, Kolkata
2019	Chennai Lions	8–1	Dabang Delhi TTC	Thyagaraj Sports Complex, New Delhi
2023	Goa Challengers	8–7	Chennai Lions	Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Sports Complex, Pune
2024	Goa Challengers	8–2	Dabang Delhi TTC	Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, Chennai	8

Team squads

Season 1 (2017)

Team	Players		Coaches
	Male	Female
Falcons TTC	Par Gerell Liam Pitchford Sanil Shetty Arjun Ghosh	Wu Yang Lee Ho Ching Sutirtha Mukherjee Priyadarshini Das	Francisco Santos Soumyadeep Roy
Shazé Challengers	Li Ping Andrej Gaćina Soumyajit Ghosh Manav Thakkar	Han Ying Petrissa Solja Mouma Das Moumita Datta	Elena Timina A. Muralidhara Rao
Dabang Smashers TTC	Marcos Freitas Kou Lei Sathiyan Gnanasekaran A. Amalraj	Hu Melek Tetyana Bilenko Madhurika Patkar Mousumi Paul	Ilija Lupulesku N. Ravichandran
DHFL Maharashtra United	Wong Chun Ting Joao Monteiro Harmeet Desai Ronit Bhanja	Liu Jia Fu Yu Krittwika Sinha Roy Pooja Sahasrabudhe	Ferenc Karsai Arup Basak
Oilmax-Stag Yoddhas	Panagiotis Gionis Quadri Aruna Jubin Kumar Abhishek Yadav	Doo Hoi Kem Polina Mikhailova Manika Batra Selena D. Selvakumar	Vesna Ojsteršek Sandeep Gupta
RP-SG Mavericks	Tiago Apolonia Stefan Fegerl Sharath Kamal Birdie Boro	Sofia Polcanova Sabine Winter Archana Kamath Amrutha Pushpak	Peter Engel Sachin Shetty

Season 2 (2018)

Team	Players		Coaches
	Male	Female
Dabang Delhi TTC	Yoshida Masaki Cedric Nuytinck Sathiyan Gnanasekaran Sanish Ambekar	Sakura Mori Adriana Diaz Archana Kamath Manika Batra	Andrei Filimon Sachin Shetty
RP-SG Mavericks	Kou Lei Mattias Karlsson Harmeet Desai Siddhesh Pande	Doo Hoi Kem Sabine Winter Ayhika Mukherjee Mouma Das	Elena Timina Arup Basak
Falcons TTC	Liam Pitchford Álvaro Robles Sanil Shetty Ronit Bhanja	Bernadette Szocs Matilda Ekholm Sutirtha Mukherjee Priyagarshini Das	Vesna Ojsteršek Soumyadeep Roy
Empowerji Challengers	Simon Gauzy Tiago Apolonia Manav Thakkar Arjun Ghosh	Lee Ho Ching Georgina Pota Divya Deshpande Prapti Sen	Peter Engel A. Muralidhara Rao
Maharashtra United	Kristian Karlsson João Monteiro Anthony Amalraj Utkarsh Gupta	Elizabeta Samara Lily Zhang Madhurika Patkar Selena D. Selvakumar	Francisco Santos N. Ravichandran
Yoddhas Warriors TTC	Quadri Aruna Chuang Chih-Yuan Sharath Kamal Ravindra Kotiyan	Sofia Polcanova Hana Matelova Pooja Sahasrabudhe Sreeja Akula	Ferenc Karsai Sandeep Gupta

Season 3 (2019)

Team	Players		Coaches
	Male	Female
Chennai Lions	Tiago Apolonia Sharath Kamal Anirban Ghosh	Petrissa Solja Madhurika Patkar Yashini Sivansakar	Peter Engel A. Muralidhara Rao
Dabang Delhi TTC	Jon Persson Sathiyan Gnanasekaran Parth Virmani	Bernadette Szocs Krittwika Sinha Roy Naina	Vesna Ojsteršek Sachin Shetty
Goa Challengers	Álvaro Robles Amalraj Anthony Siddhesh Pande	Cheng I-Ching Archana Kamath Shruti Amrute	Elena Timina Arup Basak
Puneri Paltan TT	Chuang Chih-Yuan Harmeet Desai Ronit Bhanja	Sabine Winter Ayhika Mukherjee Selena Selvakumar	Francisco Santos Parag Agrawal
RP-SG Mavericks Kolkata	Benedikt Duda Sanil Shetty Manush Shah	Matilda Ekholm Manika Batra Prapti Sen	Zoltan Batorfi N. Ravichandran
U Mumba TT	Kirill Gerassimenko Manav Thakkar Jeet Chandra	Doo Hoi Kem Sutirtha Mukherjee Moumita Datta	Jiaqi Zheng Soumyadeep Roy

Season 4 (2023)

Team	Players		Coaches
	Male	Female
Bengaluru Smashers	Kirill Gerassimenko Sanil Shetty Ankur Bhattacharjee	Natalia Bajor Manika Batra Poymantee Baisya	Vesna Ojsteršek Sachin Shetty
Chennai Lions	Benedikt Duda Sharath Kamal Payas Jain	Liu Yangzi Sutirtha Mukherjee Prapti Sen	Jörg Bitzigeio Somnath Ghosh
Dabang Delhi TTC	Jon Persson Sathiyan Gnanasekaran Anirban Ghosh	Barbora Balazova Ayhika Mukherjee Sreeja Akula	Slobodan Grujić A Muralidhara Rao
Goa Challengers	Álvaro Robles Amalraj Anthony Harmeet Desai	Suthasini Sawettabut Reeth Tennison Krittwika Roy	Elena Timina Parag Agrawal
Puneri Paltan TTC	Omar Assar Manush Shah Snehit Suravajjula	Hana Matelova Archana Kamath Anusha Kutumbale	Zoltan Batorfi N. Ravichandran
U Mumba TT	Quadri Aruna Manav Thakkar Sudhanshu Grover	Lily Zhang Mouma Das Diya Chitale	Francisco Santos Anshul Garg

Season 5 (2024)

The 2024 Ultimate Table Tennis league saw 48 players, including 16 internationals. Two new teams namely Ahmedabad SG Pipers and Jaipur Patriots made their debut in season 5 of UTT.^[7]

Team	Players		Coaches
	Male	Female
Bengaluru Smashers	Alvaro Robles Amalraj Antony Jeet Chandra	Lily Zhang Manika Batra Taneesha Kotecha	Elena Timina Anshuman Roy
Ahmedabad SG Pipers	Lilian Bardet Manush Shah Jash Modi	Bernadette Szocs Pritha Vartikar Reeth Rishya	Francisco Santos Jay Modak
Dabang Delhi TTC	Andreas Levenko Sathiyan Gnanasekaran Yashansh Malik	Orawan Paranang Diya Chitale Lakshita Narang	Vesna Ojsteršek Sachin Shetty
U Mumba TT	Quadri Aruna Manav Thakkar Akash Pal	Maria Xiao Sutirtha Mukherjee Kavyasree Baskar	John Murphy Anshul Garg
Goa Challengers	Mihai Bobocica Harmeet Desai Sudhanshu Grover	Liu Yangzi Yashaswini Ghorpade Sayali Wani	Zoltan Batorfi Subhajit Saha
Puneri Paltan TT	João Monteiro Anirban Ghosh Ankur Bhattacharjee	Nina Mittelham Ayhika Mukherjee Yashini Sivashankar	Jorg Bitzigeio Parag Agrawal
Jaipur Patriots	Cho Seungmin Snehit Suravajjula Ronit Bhanja	Suthasini Sawettabut Sreeja Akula Moumita Dutta	Ronald Redep Somnath Ghosh
Chennai Lions	Jules Rolland Sharath Kamal Abhinandh PB	Sakura Mori Mouma Das Poymantee Baisya	Tobias Bergman Subin Kumar

Points table

Season 1

Position	Team	Ties		Matches	Points
		Played	Won
1	Falcons TTC	5	3	27	78
2	Shazé Challengers	5	4	24	73
3	Dabang Delhi TTC	5	3	28	69
4	DHFL Maharashtra United	5	2	21	64
5	Oilmax-Stag Yoddhas	5	2	18	61
6	RP-SG Mavericks	5	1	17	60

Season 2

Position	Team	Ties		Matches	Points
		Played	Won
1	Dabang Delhi TTC	5	3	23	63
2	RP-SG Mavericks	5	4	20	58
3	Falcons TTC	5	4	21	56
4	Maharashtra United	5	2	15	49
5	Warriors TTC	5	1	13	47
6	Empowerji Challengers	5	1	13	42

Season 3

Position	Team	Ties		Matches	Points
		Played	Won
1	U Mumba TTC	5	4	16	44
2	Chennai Lions	5	3	14	42
3	Goa Challengers	5	3	15	41
4	Dabang Delhi TTC	5	3	13	41
5	RP-SG Mavericks	5	1	10	30
6	Puneri Paltan TT	5	1	7	27

Season 4

Position	Team	Ties		Matches	Points
		Played	Won
1	Dabang Delhi TTC	5	3	14	42
2	Chennai Lions	5	2	14	41
3	Puneri Paltan TT	5	3	14	38
4	Goa Challengers	5	2	13	36
5	Bengaluru Smashers	5	3	15	35
6	U Mumba TT	5	2	8	33

Season 5

Position	Team	Ties		Matches	Points
		Played	Won
1	Bengaluru Smashers	5	4	16	48
2	Ahmedabad SG Pipers	5	3	17	42
3	Dabang Delhi TTC	5	3	14	41
4	Goa Challengers	5	3	11	37
5	Chennai Lions	5	2	13	37
6	U Mumba TT	5	2	12	36
7	Puneri Paltan TT	5	2	10	31
8	Jaipur Patriots	4	1	7	28

Notes and References

1. News: Ultimate Table Tennis: India's first-ever professional league for the sport to begin from 13 July . 30 July 2019 . Sportskeeda . 26 June 2017.
2. Web site: Ultimate Table Tennis 2023: Schedule, Results, Points Table, Telecast & Live Streaming Info Of UTT Season 4 – myKhel. 28 August 2023.
3. Web site: Viacom18 gets the right to broadcast Ultimate Table Tennis - The Economic Times . 2024-08-20 . m.economictimes.com.
4. News: All you need to know about Ultimate Table Tennis . 30 July 2019 . ESPN India . 11 July 2017.
5. News: All about Ultimate Table Tennis . 30 July 2019 . The Hindu . 28 June 2017.
6. News: Ultimate Table Tennis 2018: Captains of six teams unveil trophy as tournament set to begin on Thursday . 30 July 2019 . Firstpost . 13 June 2018.
7. Web site: Sportstar . Team . 2024-08-20 . Ultimate Table Tennis 2024: Preview, schedule, squads, streaming info and all you need to know about UTT season 5 . 2024-08-20 . sportstar.thehindu.com . en.