India’s star paddler Sharath Kamal is quite confident of the Indian men’s team qualifying for the Paris Olympics through the World team table tennis championships in Busan from February 16 to 25.
“This is our last chance [World team championships] to make it to the quadrennial event. I am pretty confident we can make it to the knockouts (top three make the grade from eight groups). If we make it to the quarterfinals, we can make it to Paris. Our men’s team is ranked 16 now. We will go up to 15 once the world team rankings are released next week. Of course, the deadline is July 2024,” the 41-year-old told the media on January 30.
The Indian men’s team is in Group 3 with Korea, Poland, New Zealand and Chile. There are eight groups and the top three from each group will make it to the knockouts.
