Indian Women’s Table Tennis: The Secret to their Rapid Progress and Tactics for International Success

Indian Women’s Table Tennis: The Secret to their Rapid Progress and Tactics for International Success

2024-02-20 23:00:33

In recent years, Indian women’s table tennis has made rapid progress. The key lies in using “strange glue” and special playing methods to win unexpectedly.

On the 16th of this month, in the first round of the Women’s Team A round-robin of the Busan World Table Tennis Championships, the Chinese women’s team only narrowly defeated the Indian women’s team 3-2, with Sun Yingsha and Wang Yidi missing successively. On September 30 last year, in the quarterfinals of the table tennis women’s doubles at the Hangzhou Asian Games, the then-little-known Indian pair Sudirtha Mukherjee/Aishika Mukherjee upset the Chinese pair Chen Meng/Wang Yidi. , advanced to the women’s doubles semi-finals. Although they lost to the North Korean team in the semi-finals, the bronze medal was India’s first Asian Games table tennis women’s doubles medal in history.

Mukherjee Combo. AP profile picture

CCTV quoted netizens as saying: Why do this Indian pair look so ordinary but have such extraordinary results? Reports indicate that their secret weapon is actually the rubber on their rackets. The Indian team has four types of rubber on its two boards.

Sudirta has reverse glue on one side and long glue on the other; Ashika has raw glue on one side and anti-arc glue on the other. Table tennis legend Deng Yaping analyzed following the game that Chen Meng/Wang Yidi lost because they were not adaptable to the playing style of two “weird players” in India. “They mightn’t figure out the spin and didn’t dare to pull the ball. If they returned the ball too high, they would be easily beaten by their opponents.” smash.”

In fact, the Chinese team has specialized training for rare rubber. If they encounter a certain athlete’s “weird board” during the game, the national table tennis players are able to adapt quickly. But at that time, the four rubbers of the Indian combination took turns to play, and the challenge naturally escalated. They also developed various weird tactical combinations, which really made it difficult for their opponents to resist.

Going back to the recent competition, it is reported that Mukherji, who beat Sun Yingsha, used raw rubber and extended rubber, and Akula, who beat Wang Yidi, used reverse rubber and extended rubber. Another player, Batra, was close to Akula.

It is indeed difficult to deal with three people and three different rubbers, especially Mukherjee’s anti-arc rubber, which has been rare for many years. It was popular in the national table tennis team in the 1980s, and now we can no longer find the same type with a higher level. As a sparring partner, this also caused Sun Yingsha to suffer a big loss.

In recent years, India has begun to vigorously support the domestic Table Tennis Super League. The scale of the six participating teams allowed them to surpass the early Japanese Table Tennis Super League. In addition to the number of teams that can guarantee the number of matches for players to a large extent, the Indian League also brings together many mid-to-high-level players, including African “big brother” Aruna, Chinese player Zhang An and other players who play here experience.

In August last year, at the Commonwealth Games, the Indian team defeated the Singaporean team 3-1 in the men’s team final and won a gold medal.

It is worth mentioning that on the way to the finals, they even swept the Nigerian team led by Aruna. In addition to veteran Achanta defeating Aruna, players such as Ghana Nasekharan and Desai also Showed a certain strength.

In the women’s competition, the Indian team has risen more rapidly in recent years, and the most representative one is undoubtedly the Mukherjee sisters. Before defeating the Chinese combination at the Hangzhou Asian Games, they had already achieved many good results – in the WTT Tunisia competition in June last year, they defeated the South Korean combination Tian Zhixi/Shin Yubin and the Japanese combination Harimoto Miwa/Kihara Miyu.

In recent years, India has also continued to seek international voice in the field of table tennis. On December 2, 2022, Indian table tennis star Achanta and Chinese table tennis star Liu Shiwen were simultaneously elected as chairman of the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) Athletes Committee. The first Indian athlete in history to win 9 national championships became an ITTF athlete. The core of the committee has played a huge role in promoting the development of table tennis in India.


Achangta and Liu Shiwen were simultaneously elected as chairpersons of the ITTF Athletes Committee.Online pictures

Achangta and Liu Shiwen were simultaneously elected as chairpersons of the ITTF Athletes Committee.Online pictures

As early as 2021, Ghana Nasekharan, who was playing for the Japan Table Tennis League at the time, made a bold statement in an interview, “Catch up with the Chinese team in 20 years!” In recent years, the Indian team has successively defeated the South Korean, Japanese and Chinese teams. Get a key victory. There is no doubt that they will become another key research object for the Chinese team during the Paris Olympics cycle.

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The main leadership of the China Securities Regulatory Commission was adjusted on February 7, and the new Secretary and Chairman of the Party Committee of China Securities Regulatory Commission Wu Qing took office before the Spring Festival. It is understood that since Wu Qing took office, he has not had a break during the holidays and has worked overtime continuously. From February 18 to 19, the China Securities Regulatory Commission held more than ten symposiums, and Wu Qing and members of the leadership team chaired the meetings respectively.


Wu Qing, Chairman of China Securities Regulatory Commission.

Wu Qing, Chairman of China Securities Regulatory Commission.

The symposium covered a wide range of fields, and experts and scholars, small and medium-sized investors, representatives of listed companies, companies planning to be listed, securities fund operating institutions, accounting and law firms, private equity institutions, foreign-funded institutions, etc. all participated in the symposium.


The China Securities Regulatory Commission will hold a series of symposiums following the Chinese New Year.

The China Securities Regulatory Commission will hold a series of symposiums following the Chinese New Year.

The content of the discussion ranges from IPO, supervision of listed companies, standardizing shareholding reduction, optimizing dividends, standardizing trading behavior, to increasing investment value, optimizing market value management, enhancing the strength of professional institutions, promoting long-term funds to enter the market, to delisting, openness and security, etc.

In addition to convening multiple symposiums to listen to suggestions from all parties in the market, Wu Qing also led a team to the Galaxy Securities Financial Street Sales Department to communicate with investor representatives. The interviewees were all customers of the sales department, and they “talked for a long time.”

The “Shanghai Securities News” quoted market insiders’ analysis and held intensive symposiums to fully listen to the opinions and suggestions of all parties, demonstrating the attitude of the China Securities Regulatory Commission to listen carefully, respect the market, and respect all types of investors. It hopes to build consensus to a greater extent and form joint efforts to promote common development. Jointly build and promote the development of the capital market.

More than ten symposiums covered all aspects, let’s take a look at the key points:

At the symposium, many participating representatives suggested that IPOs should first focus on quality and provide investors with high-quality investment targets.

According to the report, the China Securities Regulatory Commission is evaluating and summarizing the practice of issuance supervision in recent years, focusing more on strictly controlling IPO access, improving the quality of listed companies from the source, and studying and improving relevant policy mechanisms, focusing on giving greater emphasis to the entire chain of issuance and listing review and supervision. Check. The China Securities Regulatory Commission, exchanges and local offices will strengthen issuance and listing supervision and consolidate the primary responsibility of issuers and the “gatekeeper” responsibilities of intermediaries.

In the next step, the China Securities Regulatory Commission may further increase the intensity of supervision and inspection of companies planning to be listed, vigorously crack down on financial fraud, and form a more powerful deterrent to those who “jump in while sick”, forcing issuers to improve the quality of their declarations and intermediaries to improve their professional standards.

Representatives attending the meeting are generally concerned regarding the supervision of listed companies. They believe that the quality of some listed companies is not high, and some even have impure purposes for listing. They are for the purpose of “making money” and “cash out”, which seriously affects investor confidence. They must crack down severely and reduce their holdings. , dividends and other systems, hoping to pay more attention to fairness and strengthen the protection of the rights and interests of small and medium-sized investors.

It is reported that the China Securities Regulatory Commission has issued special documents to improve the quality of listed companies in the early stage, and is currently conducting further research on issues of market concern such as punishing financial fraud, preventing detours and reductions, increasing dividend returns, and strengthening market value management.

Regarding issues such as financial fraud that are deeply hated by all parties, the China Securities Regulatory Commission is working with relevant parties to study and improve the comprehensive punishment and prevention mechanism, and strengthen the mechanism construction starting from the three lines of defense of the company’s internal governance, intermediary agency control, and securities department supervision, and strive to achieve performance penetration, The data must be authentic, all-round and three-dimensional accountability should be strengthened, and “hard measures” such as severe penalties and bans on illegal audit and evaluation cases should be implemented.

For key areas such as fraudulent issuance, systematic and coordinated fraud, and financial “bathing”, the China Securities Regulatory Commission will strengthen cross-department joint prevention and joint law enforcement, and better utilize the capabilities of the Supreme People’s Procuratorate’s Procuratorial Office of the China Securities Regulatory Commission and the Securities Crime Investigation Bureau of the Ministry of Public Security. The advantage of stationing is to improve the efficiency of administrative-criminal linkage, enhance the effectiveness of “zero tolerance” law enforcement, and make counterfeiters and their “accomplices” truly so painful that they dare not do anything once more.

In addition, the China Securities Regulatory Commission will strictly regulate the holding reduction behavior of major shareholders, especially controlling shareholders and actual controllers, and strictly prevent various disguised and detour reduction behaviors through divorce, securities lending, refinancing, etc.; for illegal reductions, we will Enhance the timeliness and effectiveness of regulatory measures, such as ordering violators to repurchase shares and hand over spread proceeds to the company. For behavior that has a bad impact and refuses to be corrected in a timely manner, penalties will be increased in accordance with the law.

Representatives at the meeting reported that investors are very concerned regarding dividends. At present, the number and amount of A-share dividend companies continue to grow, but the absolute number of companies that do not pay dividends is still quite large.

According to the report, the regulatory authorities are expected to further strengthen supervision, so that companies that have not paid dividends for many years or have a low dividend rate will feel strong constraints; at the same time, they will further urge high-quality listed companies to increase their dividend levels and promote multiple dividends combined with semi-annual reports and third quarter reports.

Representatives at the meeting also mentioned that all parties in the market are very concerned regarding delisting. The number of delisting companies has increased rapidly in recent years, and the forced delisting rate has been basically the same as that of mature markets such as the United States. However, there are only a few companies that have voluntarily delisted.

At present, regulatory authorities are studying and optimizing delisting indicators, setting more accurate and matching delisting standards, focusing on increasing efforts to clear out companies with financial fraud, and at the same time improving multiple exit policies such as mergers and acquisitions.

Regulatory authorities emphasized that delisting is related to the interests of investors and must effectively protect investors’ rights to know, trade and claim, and further improve the compensation and relief mechanism for investors.

Market value management is one of the key concerns of the participants. It is understood that the China Securities Regulatory Commission has proposed in the early stage to promote listed companies to enhance their investment value, including supporting listed companies to consolidate their fundamentals through mergers, acquisitions and reorganizations, encouraging the injection of high-quality assets; guiding listed companies to cancel repurchased shares, and enhance the effect and binding force of repurchases.

The regulatory authorities emphasized that they will severely crack down on “pseudo market value management” that uses the name of market value management to implement illegal activities such as false information disclosure, insider trading, and market manipulation.

Securities fund operating institutions are important participants in the capital market. In recent years, the overall development of securities and fund operating institutions has been relatively stable, and no major risks have occurred. Participating industry organizations stated that they will thoroughly study and understand the spirit of the Central Financial Work Conference, correct their business philosophy, focus on the main business, optimize the structure, vigorously promote the financial culture with Chinese characteristics, and strive to improve the ability to serve the real economy and investors.

According to the report, the China Securities Regulatory Commission is studying and improving the supervision model of industry institutions, improving the institutional system in terms of institutions, personnel, business, etc., and strengthening the compliance and risk control requirements of institutions. At the same time, it is improving the regulatory incentive and restraint mechanism, giving more emphasis to rewarding the good and punishing the bad, and promoting the securities industry. The capabilities of companies and public funds have been improved.

At present, public funds have become an important way for residents to invest in the stock market. But since last year, many investors have been dissatisfied with the yields of public funds. Representatives attending the meeting expressed the hope that public funds would strengthen the core capabilities of investment research, abandon the phenomenon of star fund managers, improve the construction of investment research systems, and at the same time further reduce fee levels to better serve investors.

In the next stage, the China Securities Regulatory Commission will accelerate the pace of registration of equity products, further enrich the supply of broad-based index fund products and corresponding option products, and at the same time strengthen coordination with relevant departments to promote the introduction of more medium and long-term funds into the market.

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