Sutirtha Mukherjee Explained

Sutirtha Mukherjee
Birth Date:10 October 1995
Birth Place:Naihati, West Bengal, India
Height:1.60 m[1]
Playingstyle:Right-handed shakehand
Hrank:95 (3 August 2021)[2]
Crank:112 (26 September 2023)
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Sutirtha Mukherjee (born 10 October 1995) is an Indian table tennis player from Naihati, West Bengal.[3] [4] She has won national table tennis championship and also was a part of gold medal winning Indian women's team at the 2018 Commonwealth Games.[5] [6] [7] [8] Mukherjee also represented India at the 2020 Summer Olympics and 2022 Asian Games.[9] She won the bronze medal for India in women's doubles table tennis in the 2022 Asian Games.[10] [11]

Career

Mukherjee represented India and began winning titles in ITTF junior events in 2012.[12] She was registered as a player born on 10 October 1997 and made it to participate in the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics, which was eligible for athletes born between 1996 and 1999.[13] [14] [15] The Central Bureau of Investigation in 2014 initiated an inquiry against several table tennis players for allegedly participating in underage categories of competitions by producing forged age records.[16] After the matter was probed in 2016, the Table Tennis Federation of India banned Mukherjee for a year for allegedly fudging her age record.

In 2018, Mukherjee won women's singles title at the Senior National Table Tennis Championships in India and became a part of gold medal winning Indian women's team at the 2018 Commonwealth Games.[17] [18]

In 2021, Mukherjee represented India at the 2020 Summer Olympics.[19] Fellow compatriot Manika Batra accused Indian national coach Soumyadeep Roy of pressuring her to throw a match at the Olympic qualifiers (in March) to Mukherjee to allow Mukherjee to qualify.[20] A committee composed of two former Supreme Court judges found that Roy had indeed tried to manipulate the match but found no evidence of Batra throwing the match away in an eventual loss to Mukherjee.[21]

Sutirtha Mukherjee and Ayhika Mukherjee advanced to women's doubles final at the WTT Contender Muscat in 2022.[22] The pair won their first WTT title at the WTT Contende Tunis 2023 by defeating Shin Yu-bin and Jeon Ji-hee in the semifinal before a victory against Miyuu Kihara and Miwa Harimoto in the final.[23] Later in the 2022 Asian Games, they defeated the Chinese Champions Chen Meng and Wang Yidi in the quarter finals, won a historical bronze medal for India before losing to North Korea's Cha Su-yong and Pak Su-gyong.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: MUKHERJEE Sutirtha. hangzhou2022.cn. 2 October 2023.
  2. Web site: Ranking History. results.ittf.link. 2 October 2023.
  3. Web site: Sutirtha Mukherjee. olympedia.org. 25 June 2023.
  4. Web site: Sutirtha Mukherjee. ultimatetabletennis.in. 25 June 2023.
  5. Web site: Commonwealth Games: India beat Sri Lanka in women's Table Tennis . https://web.archive.org/web/20180405152936/http://www.newindianexpress.com/sport/other/2018/apr/05/commonwealth-games-india-beat-sri-lanka-in-womens-table-tennis-1797318.html . dead . 5 April 2018 . New Indian Games . 5 April 2018 . 5 April 2018.
  6. Web site: SUTIRTHA MUKHERJEE . 5 April 2018.
  7. Web site: Sutirtha Mukherjee . Gold Cost 2018 . 16 April 2018.
  8. Web site: এশিয়ান গেমসে সুতীর্থার লক্ষ্য সোনা . . bn-IN. 10 April 2018 . 16 April 2018.
  9. Web site: 2023-09-30 . Asian Games 2023: Sutirtha-Ayhika create history, reach women's double table tennis semis . 2023-10-01 . Hindustan Times . en.
  10. Web site: Desk . TOI Sports . Asian Games: Sutirtha Mukherjee and Ayhika Mukherjee clinch bronze in table tennis women's doubles — Asian Games 2023 News . The Times of India . 2 Oct 2023 . 2 Oct 2023.
  11. Web site: Swaminathan . Swaroop . Unshakeable bond behind table tennis duo Ayhika-Sutirtha's bronze . The New Indian Express . 2 Oct 2023 . 2 Oct 2023.
  12. Web site: A Full House of Titles for Sutirtha Mukherjee as Indian Girls Set the Standard. ittf.com. 13 August 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20120819051810/http://www.ittf.com/_front_page/ittf_full_story1.asp?ID=28752&Competition_ID=2159&. 19 August 2012. dead.
  13. Web site: List of Participants at the Guatelama Junior & Cadet Open. ittf.com. 8 August 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20120819051841/http://www.ittf.com/competitions/PDF_Upload/pictures/PDF23170.pdf. 19 August 2012. dead.
  14. Web site: Entries at the 2013 ITTF World Junior Table Tennis Championships. ittf.com. 28 November 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20160525114352/http://www.ittf.com/juniors/2013/WJTTC_Rabat/WJTTC_Rabat_2013_entries.pdf. 25 May 2016. dead.
  15. Web site: 2014 Second Youth Olympic Games. ittf.com. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20140822200942/http://www.ittf.com/competitions/competitions2.asp?Competition_ID=2059&category=YOG. 22 August 2014.
  16. Web site: 3 Table Tennis players banned for fudging age record. The Asian Age. 30 June 2016. 25 June 2023.
  17. Web site: Sutirtha: I was very confident . https://web.archive.org/web/20180405153820/https://www.telegraphindia.com/sports/sutirtha-i-was-very-confident-205205 . dead . 5 April 2018 . Telegraph India . 1 February 2018 . 5 April 2018.
  18. Web site: CWG 2018: Complete list of India's gold medalist from 21st Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast . . 15 April 2018 . 16 April 2018.
  19. Web site: 2021-03-18. Table tennis: Sutirtha Mukherjee and G Sathiyan qualify for Tokyo Olympics. 2021-04-10. ESPN.com. en.
  20. Web site: Edgesandnets . 2021-09-04 . Manika Batra Accuses Indian National Coach of Match-Fixing . 2022-07-27 . Edges And Nets . en-US.
  21. News: Ohri . Raghav . Match-fixing allegations: Inquiry report blames national coach Soumyadeep Roy, Table Tennis Federation of India . The Economic Times . 2022-07-27.
  22. Web site: WTT Contender Muscat 2022. worldtabletennis.com. 26 June 2023.
  23. Web site: Table tennis: Sutirtha Mukherjee and Ayhika Mukherjee win first tour title at WTT Contender in Tunis. scroll.in. 25 June 2023. 26 June 2023.