Harmeet Desai has been Goa Challengers’ leading light in the Ultimate Table Tennis. But more than his exploits on the table over here, Harmeet has been in the news for speaking his mind about being excluded as one of India’s two singles entries for the forthcoming Asian Games in Hangzhou.
Even before India’s squad was officially announced on July 7, Harmeet, who was an integral part of India’s men’s team that won a historic bronze in the 2018 Asian Games, on July 5 had written to the Table Tennis Federation of India (TTFI) with a request to consider his stature as India’s highest-ranked paddler in the World.
But the national selectors persisted with A. Sharath Kamal and G. Sathiyan, who have been the most consistent Indian paddlers in the international arena over the last decade, as the singles entries. Almost a month since being given the cold shoulder again, Harmeet is still not satisfied with the reasons cited to him but stresses that there is no bad blood between him and any other players.
