New Delhi: The Indian table tennis federation on Wednesday decided to issue a notification of the Notification of the Paddler Manika Batra star for his rejection to take Soumyadeep Roy’s national assistance at the Tokyo Olympics.
Even though Manika coach Sanmay Paranjape was given access to training sessions in Tokyo, he did not have an accreditation to enter the game field and request to increase the access card was rejected.
In a protest show, Manika rejected assistance from the coach of the team appointed during his single match.
He has made history by reaching round 32.
“Before he rode a flight to Tokyo, he really knew that his personal coach did not have a field of access to play.
Therefore, he should not act as he did (reject the national assistance coach).” We will Removing tomorrow’s notice and Manika will have 10 days to respond and based that we will decide what action will be taken further, “said Secretary General of TTFI Arun Banerjee to PTI after the executive board meeting.
It also decided at the meeting that the player had to attend the camp National camps if they are fit and available.
Manika has attended the three-week Olympic camp for three days while G Sathiyan prefers to practice at Chennai under the Raman Personal coach.
“All Indian players must attend the camp from now as long as available and not playing abroad, “Banerjee added.
He added a date for the training camp before the championship Asia in Doha in September-October will be announced soon.
Taudo a tennis contingent back from Tokyo with his best performance because both Manika and Shounih Kamal reached round 32.
Sutirtha Mukherjee also managed to reach the second round on his Olympic debut while Sathiyan lost the opening match.