Chennai Paddler Does India Proud
Chennai-boy Achanta Sharath Kamal boosted India’s medal tally in the Commonwealth Games with an impressive win the Men’s Final of the Table Tennis event. Sharath Kamal earlier played an important role in engineering India’s win in the team event. This is the first time an Indian paddler has won the singles event.
Sharath works as an Officer with the Indian Oil Corporation in Chennai. Sharath trains at YMIA in Mylapore. Sharath’s dad Srinivasa Rao and uncle Muralidhara Rao are well known coaches Table Tennis coaches in Chennai.
So far India has
22 gold
17 silver
11 bronze
with a total 50 medals and ranking 4th in the medals tally, our guys have done a great job.