CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -Commonwealth Table Tennis Championship 2019 began at the Jawaharlal Indoor Stadium in Cuttack, Odisha.

Detailed explanation-2: -UTT 81st Senior National & Inter-State Table Tennis Championships-2019. Hyderabad, February 2: Sixth-seed Harmeet Desai defeated fourth-seed Manav Thakkar 4-3 in the men’s singles final of the UTT 81st National Table Tennis Championships to win his maiden title at the Saroonagar Indoor Stadium here today.

Detailed explanation-3: -Cuttack, July 22: Indian paddlers made most of the ‘home’ advantage and grabbed all the gold medals-seven to be precise-in the 21st Commonwealth Table Tennis Championships which concluded at the Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor Stadium here today.

Detailed explanation-4: -The first world championships were held in London in 1926, and from then until 1939 the game was dominated by players from central Europe, the men’s team event being won nine times by Hungary and twice by Czechoslovakia.

Detailed explanation-5: -Table tennis is one of the sports contested at the 2022 Commonwealth Games, held in Birmingham, England. This was the sixth staging of table tennis at the Commonwealth Games since its inclusion in 2002, and the second staging within England specifically.