Sutirtha Mukherjee (born 10 October 1995) is an Indian table tennis player from

Naihati Naihati is a city and a municipality of North 24 Parganas district in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is a part of the area covered by Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority (KMDA). Naihati Municipality is one of the oldest in the whol ...

, West Bengal. She has won national table tennis championship and also was just a part of gold medal winning Indian women's team at

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. Mukherjee also represented India at the

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and

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.She won the bronze medal for India in women's doubles table tennis in the

Career

Mukherjee represented India and began winning titles in ITTF junior events in 2012. She was registered as a player born on 10 October 1997 and made it to participate at the

2014 Summer Youth Olympics The 2014 Summer Youth Olympics (), officially known as the II Summer Youth Olympic Games , and commonly known as Nanjing 2014 ( zh, c=南京2014, p=Nánjīng Èr Líng yī sì), were the second Summer Youth Olympic Games, an international sports ...

, which was eligible for athletes born between 1996 and 1999. The

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in 2014 initiated an inquiry against several table tennis players for allegedly participating in underage categories of competitions by producing manipulated age records. After the matter was probed in 2016, the

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banned Mukherjee for a year for allegedly fudging 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

. In 2021, Mukherjee represented India at the

. 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. A committee composed of two former

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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. Sutirtha Mukherjee and

Ayhika Mukherjee Ayhika Mukherjee (born 10 June 1997) is an Indian table tennis player from Naihati, West Bengal. She was a part of the Indian team for the 2018 Asian Games The 2018 Asian Games ( id, Pesta Olahraga Asia 2018 or ''Asian Games 2018''), offic ...

advanced to women's doubles final at the WTT Contender Muscat in 2022. The pair won their first WTT title at the WTT Contende Tunis 2023 by defeating

Shin Yu-bin Shin Yu-bin (; born 5 July 2004) is a South Korean table tennis player. Career 2019 She competed in the 2019 ITTF World Tour Grand Finals in the mixed doubles event with Cho Dae-seong. They were knocked out in the quarterfinals by Xu Xi ...

and

Jeon Ji-hee Jeon Ji-hee (, born 28 October 1992), born Tian Minwei (), is a Chinese-born South Korean table tennis player. Career She competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in the women's singles event, in which she was eliminated in the fourth round by Yu ...

in the semifinal before a victory against Miyuu Kihara and Miwa Harimoto in the final. Later in the

, they defeated the Chinese Champions Chen Meng and

Wang Yidi Wang Yidi (, born 14 February 1997) is a Chinese table tennis player. In June 2019, she won the Hong Kong Open by beating Mima Ito 4–0 in the final. In July 2019, she won four gold medals at the 2019 Summer Universiade ) , Nations parti ...

in the quarter finals, won a historical bronze medal for India before losing to North Korea's Cha Su-yong and Pak Su-gyong.

References

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