Olympians sreeja akula

The Table Tennis Federation: The Table Tennis Federation of India has picked a 10-member men's and women's team led by Olympians Sreeja Akula and G Sathiyan for the upcoming Asian Games 2026, which has resulted in another Olympian, Manika Batra, raising questions over her exclusion from the squad for the event to be played at Aichi-Nagoya in Japan in a few months.

Table tennis at the Asian Games 2026 is scheduled to take place from September 20 to 28. Medal events will be held across the team, singles and doubles categories.

The men's team includes Harmeet Desai, Manav Thakkar, Manush Shah, Payas Jain, besides Sathiyan, while the women's side comprises Sreeja Akula, Yashaswini Ghorpade, Diya Chitale, Sutirtha Mukherjee, and Syndrela Das.