Ultimate Table Tennis Season 6 Players Auction: Format, Schedule
Ultimate Table Tennis has decided to move away from the draft process and will be hosting an auction for the first-time in the hory of the league for the sixth season.The eight teams of the league- Ahmedabad SG Pipers, Chennai Lions, Dabang Delhi, Goa Challengers, Jaipur Patriots, U Mumba TT, Pune Jaguars, and Kolkata Thunder Bladers will take part in the auction with a total of 56 players going under the hammer.
The auction pool has big foreign names such as World number 13 Bernadette Szocs, Olympian Aruna Quadri and Alvaro Robles, Chinese paddler Fan Siqi while Manika Batra and Harmeet Desai will lead the Indian players in the pool.
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Among the 56 players in the auction pool, youngsters Diya Chitale and Yashaswini Ghorpade-India’s top-ranked women’s singles players-teenage sensation Syndrela Das, and former U-17 World No. 1 Payas Jain lead a group of 25 rising Indian stars under 25.
Format of the UTT Season 6 auction
The auction is set to take place in Mumbai on Tuesday, April 15th.
All eight teams have been allotted 50 lakh virtual tokens to bid on the players, along with a one-time Right to Match (RTM) card to retain a player from the previous season matching the final bid price.
Players will be divided into four base price categories-Pool A (11 lakh tokens), Pool B (7 lakh), Pool C (4 lakh), and Pool D (2 lakh). Bidding will follow a structured format with increments of 10,000 tokens.Story continues below this ad
Ultimate Table Tennis Season 6 Auction Pool
Pool A (11 lakh tokens): Alvaro Robles (Spain), Kanak Jha (United States of America), Kirill Gerassimenko (Kazakhstan), Ricardo Walther (Germany), Quadri Aruna (Nigeria), Adriana Diaz (Puerto Rico), Bernadette Szocs (Romania), Britt Eerland (Netherlands), Dina Meshref (Egypt), Fan Siqi (China), Manika Batra, Sreeja Akula.Pool B (7 lakh tokens): Lilian Badet (France), Tiago Apolónia (Portugal), Quek Izaac (Singapore), Giorgia Piccolin (Italy), Maria Xiao (Spain), Zeng Jian (Singapore), Ankur Bhattacharjee, Harmeet Desai, Sathiyan Gnanasekaran, Diya Chitale, Sutirtha Mukherjee, Swastika Ghosh, Yashaswini Ghorpade.Pool C (4 lakh tokens): Akash Pal, Anirban Ghosh, Divyansh Srivastava, Payas Jain, Ronit Bhanja, Snehit Suravajjula, Anusha Kutumbale, Krittwika Sinha Roy, Madhurika Patkar, Reeth Rishya, Syndrela Das, Taneesha Kotecha.Pool D (2 lakh tokens): Chinmaya Somaiya, Deepit Patil, Jeet Chandra, Mudit Dani, P.B. Abhinandh, Raegan Albuquerque, Raj Mondal, Sarth Mishra, Sourav Saha, Sudhanshu Grover, Yashansh Malik, Ananya Chande, Jennifer Varghese, Nikhat Banu, Pritha Vartikar, Sayali Wani, Selena Selvakumar, Suhana Saini, Yashini Sivashankar.
