4-time Olympian Elena Timina and former German ladies’s staff head coach Jorg Bitzigeio will headline the teaching line-up for the Final Desk Tennis (UTT) Season 4.
The franchise-based league, which is promoted by Niraj Bajaj and Vita Dani below the auspices of the Desk Tennis Federation of India (TTFI), is returning after three years with Season 4 scheduled to be performed out from July 13 to 30 on the Balewadi Sports activities Advanced in Pune.
Every staff might be coached by one worldwide and one Indian coach. A coach draft is predicted to be held early subsequent month.
Timina, who was additionally part of the 1994 World Cup-winning Russian staff, is a well known identify within the worldwide desk tennis circuit. She was the coach of Netherlands nationwide ladies’s staff between 2012 and 2017 and had additionally led the aspect to 2 gold and one silver medal within the 2015 European Video games. She had earlier labored with Shaze Challengers and RPSG Mavericks, guiding the previous to the runners-up spot within the inaugural version of the UTT.
“It’s nice to see a few of the prime names within the international desk tennis circuit as a part of the teaching line-up. We’re dedicated to rising the game within the nation by means of this league and taking part in below a few of these masterminds won’t solely profit the kids but additionally the skilled paddlers,” co-promoter Niraj Bajaj stated.
Bitzigeio, who had represented Germany at varied ranges, additionally boasts of a formidable teaching CV. Moreover guiding the German ladies’s staff to bronze medal on the 2010 World Staff Championships, he additionally helped the US nationwide staff to safe 47 medals within the Pan American Video games as a coach since 2017.
Francisco Santos, Slobodan Grujic, Vesna Ojstersek and Zoltan Batorfi would be the different overseas coaches to characteristic in Season 4. It was below Santos that the Portugal males’s staff gained the European Video games in 2015. Grujic was the coach of the Serbian males’s nationwide staff from 2009 to 2011 whereas Batorfi and Ojstersek have additionally labored as coaches with nationwide ladies’s groups of Hungary and Slovenia respectively.
A Muralidhara Rao, Anshul Garg, N Ravichandran, Parag Agrawal, Sachin Shetty and Somnath Ghosh are the Indian coaches.
Muralidhara Rao has coached a few of the nation’s prime paddlers together with Achanta Sharath Kamal and Ok Shamini since their early taking part in days. Ravichandran and Shetty have contributed to a number of worldwide medals as coach of the senior Indian staff whereas Garg and Agrawal have additionally performed essential roles with the nation’s junior nationwide groups. Ghosh is the coach of present nationwide champion Sreeja Akula.