A handy guide to full squads and top buys
Chinese Paddler Fan Siqi became the highest-valued player at the Ultimate Table Tennis (UTT) auction on Tuesday with Chennai Lions spending 19.7 lakhs to secure her services for the 6th season of the tournament.India’s top-ranked national player Diya Chitale emerged as the highest-valued Indian paddler, returning to Dabang Delhi TTC through the Right to Match (RTM) card at a value of 14.1 Lakh tokens after an intense bidding war.
Reigning champions Goa Challengers re-signed two-time title-winning captain Harmeet Desai via RTM with a bid of 14 Lakh tokens, double his base price. Season 2 winners Dabang Delhi TTC brought back Sathiyan Gnanasekaran with a successful bid of 10 Lakh tokens, making him the only player to have stayed with the same team in all six seasons.
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Sreeja Akula returned to Jaipur Patriots for 11 Lakh tokens (RTM), while Ahmedabad SG Pipers swept in with a successful bid of 12 Lakh tokens for Manika Batra.
Youngsters Ankur Bhattacharjee and Payas Jain were picked up Kolkata ThunderBlades and Chennai Lions for 11.4 and 11.6 Lakh tokens.
All eight teams will play five league stage matches, while the top four will qualify for the semi-finals.
Ultimate Table Tennis (UTT) Season 6 full squads
Ahmedabad SG Pipers: Manika Batra – 12 Lakh tokens, Ricardo Walther – 11.6 Lakh tokens, Snehit Suravajjula – 9.9 Lakh tokens, Giorgia Piccolin – 7 Lakh tokens, Divyansh Srivastava – 4 Lakh tokens, Yashini Sivashankar – 2 Lakh tokensStory continues below this ad
Chennai Lions: Fan Siqi (China) – 19.7 Lakh tokens, Kirill Gerassimenko (Kazakhstan) – 12.4 Lakh tokens, Payas Jain – 11.6 Lakh tokens, Sudhanshu Grover – 2 Lakh tokens, Jennifer Varghese – 2 Lakh tokens, Nikhat Banu – 2 Lakh tokens
Dabang Delhi TTC: Diya Chitale – 14.1 Lakh tokens (RTM), Maria Xiao (Spain) – 12.6 Lakh tokens, Sathiyan Gnanasekaran – 10 Lakh tokens, Quek Izaac (Singapore) – 7 Lakh tokens, Suhana Saini – 2.3 Lakh tokens, Sourav Saha – 2.1 Lakh tokens
Goa Challengers TTC: Zeng Jian (Singapore) – 17.2 Lakh tokens, Harmeet Desai – 14 Lakh tokens (RTM), Tiago Apolonia (Portugal) – 7 Lakh tokens, Ronit Bhanja – 4 Lakh tokens, Krittwika Sinha Roy – 4 Lakh tokens, Sayali Wani – 3.7 Lakh tokens
Jaipur Patriots: Britt Eerland (Netherlands) – 11.1 Lakh tokens, Kanak Jha (USA) – 11 Lakh tokens, Sreeja Akula – 11 Lakh tokens (RTM), Jeet Chandra – 5.7 Lakh tokens, Pritha Vartikar – 2.4 Lakh tokens, Yashansh Malik – 2 Lakh tokensStory continues below this ad
Kolkata ThunderBlades: Adriana Diaz (Puerto Rico) – 19.3 Lakh tokens, Aruna Quadri (Nigeria) – 11 Lakh tokens, Ankur Bhattacharjee – 11.4 Lakh tokens (RTM), Selena Selvakumar – 3.9 Lakh tokens, Ananya Chande – 2 Lakh tokens, Deepit Patil – 2 Lakh tokens
U Mumba TT: Bernadette Szocs (Romania) – 15.3 Lakh tokens, Lilian Bardet (France) – 11.1 Lakh tokens, Yashaswini Ghorpade – 8.6 Lakh tokens, Swastika Ghosh – 7 Lakh tokens, Akash Pal – 4 Lakh tokens (RTM), Abhinandh PB – 2.1 Lakh tokens
PBG Pune Jaguars: Alvaro Robles (Spain) – 18.1 Lakh tokens, Dina Meshref (Egypt) – 11 Lakh tokens, Taneesha Kotecha – 4 Lakh tokens (RTM), Anirban Ghosh – 4 Lakh tokens, Reeth Rishya – 4 Lakh tokens, Mudit Dani – 2.2 Lakh tokens
UTT Season 6 Auction – Top Buys
1. Fan Siqi – 19.7L (Chennai Lions)2. Adriana Diaz – 19.3L (Kolkata Thunder Blades)3. Alvaro Robles – 18.1L (PBG Pune Jaguars)4. Zeng Jian – 17.2L (Goa Challengers TTC)5. Bernadette Szocs – 15.3L (U Mumba TT)6. Diya Chitale – 14.1L (Dabang Delhi TTC)7. Harmeet Desai – 14L (Goa Challengers)
