Know teams and players list

Chennai Lions splurged 19.7 lakh tokens and made the People’s Republic of China’s Fan Siqi the highest-valued player at the Ultimate Table Tennis 2025 auction on Tuesday.

With players going under the hammer for the first time, India’s top-ranked national table tennis player Diya Chitale also emerged as the highest-valued domestic paddler. She returned to Dabang Delhi TTC through the Right to Match (RTM) card at a value of 14.1 lakh tokens after an intense bidding war.

UTT used an auction model for the first time, with teams bidding from a notional ₹50 lakh purse to sign six players each.

The RTM, meanwhile, allows a team to retain a released player by matching the highest bid made for them in the auction.

Reigning champions Goa Challengers re-signed two-time title-winning captain Harmeet Desai via RTM with a bid of 14 lakh tokens, which was double his base price.

Goa paired Harmeet with his significant other Krittwika Sinha Roy, along with Olympians Tiago Apolonia and Zeng Jian, as well as youngsters Ronit Bhanja and Sayali Wani.

UTT 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.

Besides Sathiyan and Diya, Delhi added young talent Suhana Saini and Olympians Quek Izaac and Maria Xiao to round out a balanced squad.

WTT Contender Lagos 2024 winner 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.

Ahmedabad SG Pipers added star power with Manika uniting her with WTT Star Contender Chennai 2025 quarter-finalist Snehit Suravajjula. They also brought in experienced foreign paddlers Ricardo Walther and Giorgia Piccolin.

Jaipur Patriots, on the other hand, also signed the United States’ Kanak Jha and the Netherlands’ Britt Eerland as their foreign players.

Indian table tennis players Jeet Chandra, Pritha Vartikar and Yashansh Malik as well as their RTM pick Sreeja Akula rounded out their six-member squad.

Youngsters Ankur Bhattacharjee and Payas Jain were picked up by Kolkata ThunderBlades and Chennai Lions for 11.4 and 11.6 lakh tokens, respectively.

Debutants Kolkata ThunderBlades also landed Adriana Diaz for 19.3 lakh tokens and paired her with experienced Nigerian paddler Quadri Aruna, picked at his base price of 11 lakh tokens.

Meanwhile, PBG Pune Jaguars secured Spanish ace Alvaro Robles for 18.1 lakh tokens, making him the third-highest bid of the day. Pune also used their RTM card to retain Nashik-based rising talent Taneesha Kotecha.

U Mumba TT also invested in top domestic talent, picking up Yashaswini Ghorpade for 8.6 lakh tokens and bringing in PB Abhinandh, alongside seasoned international stars Bernadette Szocs and Lilian Bardet.

All eight teams will play five league stage matches, while the top four will qualify for the semi-finals.

Ultimate Table Tennis 2025, the sixth season, will take place from May 29 to June 15 at the EKA Arena in Ahmedabad.

Ultimate Table Tennis Season 6 teams and players

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 tokens

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 tokens

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

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