♦ Indian table tennis legend Achanta Sharath Kamal played his final international match at the WTT Star Contender in Chennai on 29 March 2025.

♦ The 42-year-old icon fell 0-3 (9-11, 8-11, 9-11) to 24-year-old Snehit Suravajjula.

♦ Sharath is a record 10-time national champion, is currently India’s top-ranked men’s singles player, placed 92nd in the latest WTT ranking list.

♦ Sharath has won 13 Commonwealth Games medals (including seven gold) and two Asian Games bronze medals, five Olympic Games appearances, and two ITTF Pro Tour titles under his two-decade-long career.

♦ He won his first national title in 2003 and his maiden international medal at the 2004 Commonwealth Table Tennis Championships.

♦ His career graph reached a new high when he qualified for the 2004 Athens Olympics. In 2004, Sharath was conferred the Arjuna Award and won five national titles in a row.

♦ A historic singles gold medal at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne and another gold in the men’s team event capped a successful year.

♦ In 2010, he became the first Indian table tennis player to win an ITTF Pro Tour title when he won the Egypt Open.