Diya Chitale, a teenager from western Mumbai, has been dominating the domestic table tennis circuit for almost a decade. But more than her exploits on the table, it was her controversial exclusion before being included in India’s squad for the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham that brought her into the national limelight.
With the controversy around the team selection having died down, 19-year-old Diya is ready for her maiden multi-discipline global sojourn.