No clash of dates between Commonwealth TTC and UTT

The imaginable clash of dates betwixt the Commonwealth Table Tennis Championship (CTTC) and the seventh variation of Ultimate Table Tennis (UTT) successful July has been averted, with each stakeholders agreeing to guarantee the 2 events bash not overlap.

The Hindu understands that UTT executives met representatives of the Commonwealth Table Tennis Federation (CTTF) and the Table Tennis Federation of India (TTFI) successful New Delhi past week to enactment retired a mutually acceptable solution.

Multiple officials, requesting anonymity, confirmed that the seventh variation of UTT volition beryllium held successful Goa from July 9 to 26. The 22nd variation of the CTTC volition past statesman successful New Delhi connected July 27, with the finals scheduled for August 2.

The revised docket ensures that apical Indian paddlers, arsenic good arsenic players from Commonwealth array tennis strongholds specified arsenic Singapore, Nigeria and England, volition beryllium capable to enactment successful some events.

Initially, UTT had been allotted 2 imaginable windows — July 9 to 26 and July 16 to August 2. While UTT was deliberating implicit a mid-July start, the TTFI secured hosting rights for the CTTC, which was awarded the July 23 to August 2 window.

The overlap prompted the TTFI to bring each stakeholders to the table. After discussions, the parties agreed connected back-to-back scheduling to safeguard players’ interests and debar dilution of the prime of players participating successful some prestigious competitions.

Patriots terminated from UTT

Meanwhile, Jaipur Patriots, 1 of the 2 caller additions successful the UTT since its instrumentality aft the pandemic, has been terminated for non-payment of dues to the promoters of the league.

According to a connection issued by 11Sports, promoters of UTT, the termination was inevitable owed to “repeated non-compliance with the presumption of the executed franchise statement and persistent outgo defaults owed to 11Sports nether the contract.” A caller squad volition beryllium inducted arsenic the Patriots’ replacement up of UTT 2026.