Harmeet Desai is an Indian table tennis player. He is currently ranked 71 in the world as of August 2021. He is from

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. In

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held at

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, He won gold in men's team event with

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Sanil Shetty Sanil Shankar Shetty is an Indian table-tennis player. In 2018 Commonwealth Games held at Gold Coast, Australia, He won gold in men's team event with Sharath Kamal, Anthony Amalraj, Sathiyan Gnanasekaran & Harmeet Desai Harmeet Desai is ...

and bronze in Men's doubles event with Sanil Shetty. Harmeet Desai won the men's singles title at

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2019 at Cuttak,India defeated favorite

in a hard-fought final to claim the men's singles title. He has been honoured with the

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by the

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in 2019.

Achievements

Harmeet Desai won a gold medal in the men's team and a bronze medal in the men's doubles category for table tennis at the

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2018 that were held in Gold Coast, Queensland in Australia.He was awarded the

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by Indian President Ram Nath Kovind in August 2019 for his outstanding performance in table tennis. He won the ITTF Indonesia Open Tournament in November 2019. This was a historic moment as he was the first Indian to win an ITTF tournament in the Asian Continent. In January 2020, he created history when he won the National Championship title for the year 2019 - 2020 as he was the first player from the state of Gujarat to win the National Champion title in table tennis. He was a member of the Indian Junior Team that created history by winning the Junior Championships. He participated and won a bronze medal in the 2018

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held in the city of Jakarta. In Birmingham 2022 Desai won Gold Medal in Men's Team Category with

References

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