Sutirtha Mukherjee
Born (1995-10-10) 10 October 1995 (age 28)
Naihati, West Bengal, India
Height1.60 m (5 ft 3 in)[1]
Table tennis career
Playing styleRight-handed shakehand
Highest ranking95 (3 August 2021)[2]
Current ranking112 (26 September 2023)
Medal record
Women's table tennis
Representing  India
Asian Games
Bronze medal – third place 2022 Hangzhou Doubles
Commonwealth Games
Gold medal – first place 2018 Gold Coast Team
South Asian Games
Gold medal – first place 2019 Kathmandu/Pokhara Singles
Gold medal – first place 2019 Kathmandu/Pokhara Mixed doubles
Gold medal – first place 2019 Kathmandu/Pokhara Team
Silver medal – second place 2019 Kathmandu/Pokhara Doubles

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 just a part of gold medal winning Indian women's team at 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 at 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 manipulated age records.[16] After the matter was probed in 2016, the Table Tennis Federation of India 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 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.

References

  1. ^ "MUKHERJEE Sutirtha". hangzhou2022.cn. Retrieved 2 October 2023.
  2. ^ "Ranking History". results.ittf.link. Retrieved 2 October 2023.
  3. ^ "Sutirtha Mukherjee". olympedia.org. Retrieved 25 June 2023.
  4. ^ "Sutirtha Mukherjee". ultimatetabletennis.in. Retrieved 25 June 2023.
  5. ^ "Commonwealth Games: India beat Sri Lanka in women's Table Tennis". New Indian Games. 5 April 2018. Archived from the original on 5 April 2018. Retrieved 5 April 2018.
  6. ^ "SUTIRTHA MUKHERJEE". Retrieved 5 April 2018.
  7. ^ "Sutirtha Mukherjee". Gold Cost 2018. Retrieved 16 April 2018.
  8. ^ "এশিয়ান গেমসে সুতীর্থার লক্ষ্য সোনা" (in Bengali). Anandabazar Patrika. 10 April 2018. Retrieved 16 April 2018.
  9. ^ "Asian Games 2023: Sutirtha-Ayhika create history, reach women's double table tennis semis". Hindustan Times. 30 September 2023. Retrieved 1 October 2023.
  10. ^ Desk, TOI Sports (2 October 2023). "Asian Games: Sutirtha Mukherjee and Ayhika Mukherjee clinch bronze in table tennis women's doubles — Asian Games 2023 News". The Times of India. Retrieved 2 October 2023.
  11. ^ Swaminathan, Swaroop (2 October 2023). "Unshakeable bond behind table tennis duo Ayhika-Sutirtha's bronze". The New Indian Express. Retrieved 2 October 2023.
  12. ^ "A Full House of Titles for Sutirtha Mukherjee as Indian Girls Set the Standard". ittf.com. 13 August 2012. Archived from the original on 19 August 2012.
  13. ^ "List of Participants at the Guatelama Junior & Cadet Open" (PDF). ittf.com. 8 August 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 August 2012.
  14. ^ "Entries at the 2013 ITTF World Junior Table Tennis Championships" (PDF). ittf.com. 28 November 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on 25 May 2016.
  15. ^ "2014 Second Youth Olympic Games". ittf.com. Archived from the original on 22 August 2014.
  16. ^ "3 Table Tennis players banned for fudging age record". The Asian Age. 30 June 2016. Retrieved 25 June 2023.
  17. ^ "Sutirtha: I was very confident". Telegraph India. 1 February 2018. Archived from the original on 5 April 2018. Retrieved 5 April 2018.
  18. ^ "CWG 2018: Complete list of India's gold medalist from 21st Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast". Times Now. 15 April 2018. Retrieved 16 April 2018.
  19. ^ "Table tennis: Sutirtha Mukherjee and G Sathiyan qualify for Tokyo Olympics". ESPN.com. 18 March 2021. Retrieved 10 April 2021.
  20. ^ Edgesandnets (4 September 2021). "Manika Batra Accuses Indian National Coach of Match-Fixing". Edges And Nets. Retrieved 27 July 2022.
  21. ^ Ohri, Raghav. "Match-fixing allegations: Inquiry report blames national coach Soumyadeep Roy, Table Tennis Federation of India". The Economic Times. Retrieved 27 July 2022.
  22. ^ "WTT Contender Muscat 2022". worldtabletennis.com. Retrieved 26 June 2023.
  23. ^ "Table tennis: Sutirtha Mukherjee and Ayhika Mukherjee win first tour title at WTT Contender in Tunis". scroll.in. 25 June 2023. Retrieved 26 June 2023.


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