A. Sharath Kamal

A. Sharath Kamal
Nation:	India
Date of birth:	July 12, 1982
Place of birth:	Machilipatnam
Playing hand:	Right handed
How to play:	Shakehand
Current world rankings :	47
Best world ranking :	30 (Dec. 2018)

A. Sharath Kamal ( Achanta Sharath Kamal ; Telugu ఆచంట శరత్ కమల్ ; born July 12, 1982 in Machilipatnam , Andhra Pradesh ) is a professional Indian table tennis player .

Career

He won the men's singles at the 16th Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur in 2004. He also won the US Open in July 2010 and several other international tournaments.

After playing for a while in the Spanish league at San Sebastian, he joined the German table tennis Bundesliga for TSV Graefelfing in the 2010/2011 season . In March 2011 he moved to the Bundesliga club SV Werder Bremen , which he left in 2012 for Italy for the first division club Siracusa. However, since this broke up and Sharath Kamal could not join a new club because of the expired changeover period, he kept fit as a clubless person at the DTTZ training center in Düsseldorf. In 2013, Borussia Düsseldorf signed him for a year to replace the long-term injured Christian Süß and won the German championship and cup several times with the team. His contract with Düsseldorf was extended to 2017. For the 2017/18 season he moved to TTC Schwalbe Bergneustadt ; for the 2018/19 season he is returning to Düsseldorf. In 2019 he was Indian champion in singles for the ninth time.

Sharath Kamal was awarded the Arjuna Award in the table tennis division for 2004.

Private

Sharath Kamal is married and has one child (* 2011).

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
IND	Asian Cup	2010	Guangzhou	CHN	13th place
IND	Asian Cup	2008	Sapporo	JPN	12th place
IND	Asian Cup	2007	Hanoi	VIE	8th place
IND	Asian Cup	2006	Kobe	JPN	13th place
IND	Asian Cup	2005	New Delhi	IND	Quarter finals
IND	Asian Cup	2003	Tehran	IRI	Quarter finals
IND	Asian Games	2010	Guangzhou	CHN	last 16
IND	Asian Games	2006	Doha	QAT	last 16
IND	Commonwealth Championship	2009	Glasgow	SCO	silver	gold
IND	Commonwealth Championship	2007	Jaipur	IND	Semifinals
IND	Commonwealth Championship	2004	Kuala Lumpur	MAS	gold			1
IND	Commonwealth Games	2010	New Delhi	IND	3rd place	gold
IND	Commonwealth Games	2006	Melbourne	OUT	gold			1
IND	Olympic games	2008	Beijing	CHN	last 64
IND	Olympic games	2004	Athens	GRE	last 64
IND	Pro tour	2013	Spała	POLE	last 16
IND	Pro tour	2013	Olomouc	CZE		last 16
IND	Pro tour	2013	Olomouc	CZE	Quarter finals
IND	Pro tour	2013	Yokohama	JPN	last 16
IND	Pro tour	2013	Changchun	CHN		last 16
IND	Pro tour	2013	Doha	QAT	last 64	last 16
IND	Pro tour	2013	Kuwait City	KUW	last 32
IND	Pro tour	2013	catfish	AUT	last 32	last 16
IND	Pro tour	2012	Poznań	POLE	last 16
IND	Pro tour	2012	Bremen	GER	last 64
IND	Pro tour	2012	Budapest	HUN	last 32
IND	Pro tour	2011	Stockholm	SWE	last 16
IND	Pro tour	2011	Rabat	MAR	Semifinals
IND	Pro tour	2011	Shenzen	CHN		last 16
IND	Pro tour	2011	Almeria	ESP	last 32	Quarter finals
IND	Pro tour	2011	Władysławowo	POLE	last 32	last 16
IND	Pro tour	2010	Suzhou	CHN	last 64	last 16
IND	Pro tour	2010	Cairo	EGY	gold	last 16
IND	Pro tour	2010	New Delhi	IND	Semifinals	Semifinals
IND	Pro tour	2010	Kuwait City	KUW	last 32	last 16
IND	Pro tour	2010	Doha	QAT	last 32
IND	Pro tour	2009	Warsaw	POLE	last 64
IND	Pro tour	2009	Sheffield	CLOSELY	last 32
IND	Pro tour	2009	Indore	IND	last 16	silver
IND	Pro tour	2009	Kuwait City	KUW	last 32	last 16
IND	Pro tour	2008	Warsaw	POLE	last 32	last 16
IND	Pro tour	2008	Berlin	GER	last 64
IND	Pro tour	2008	Salzburg	AUT	last 64
IND	Pro tour	2008	Santiago	CHI	last 16	last 16
IND	Pro tour	2008	Belo Horizonte	BRA	last 32	last 16
IND	Pro tour	2007	Bremen	GER	last 64
IND	Pro tour	2007	Toulouse	FRA	last 64
IND	Pro tour	2007	catfish	AUT	last 64
IND	Pro tour	2007	Chiba	JPN	last 32
IND	Pro tour	2007	Santiago	CHI	last 16	last 16
IND	Pro tour	2007	New Delhi	IND	silver	Semifinals
IND	Pro tour	2006	Warsaw	POLE	last 64
IND	Pro tour	2006	Bayreuth	GER	last 64
IND	Pro tour	2006	Guangzhou	CHN	last 64
IND	Pro tour	2006	Singapore	SIN	last 64
IND	Pro tour	2006	Santiago	CHI	last 16
IND	Pro tour	2006	Sao Paulo	BRA	Semifinals
IND	Pro tour	2005	St. Petersburg	RUS	last 64
IND	Pro tour	2005	Fort Lauderdale	United States	last 64
IND	Pro tour	2005	Santiago	CHI	last 16
IND	Pro tour	2004	Aarhus	THE	last 64
IND	Pro tour	2003	Doha	QAT	last 32
IND	Pro Tour Grand Finals	2010	Seoul	COR	Quarter finals	Quarter finals
IND	World Championship	2013	Paris	FRA	last 64	Agony	last 64
IND	World Championship	2012	Dortmund	GER				27
IND	World Championship	2011	Rotterdam	NED	last 128	last 64	last 64
IND	World Championship	2010	Moscow	RUS				29
IND	World Championship	2009	Yokohama	JPN	last 32	last 32	last 128
IND	World Championship	2008	Guangzhou	CHN				33
IND	World Championship	2007	Zagreb	HRV	last 128	last 32	last 128
IND	World Championship	2006	Bremen	GER				35
IND	World Championship	2005	Shanghai	CHN	last 128	Agony	last 64
IND	World Championship	2004	Doha	QAT				28
IND	World Championship	2003	Paris	FRA	last 128	Agony	Agony
IND	World cup	2013	Verviers	BEL	13-16 space

Web links

• A. Sharath Kamal biography on the website of the World Table Tennis Association ittf.com (accessed June 23, 2014)
• A. Sharath Kamal in the Sports-Reference database (archived from the original ) (accessed June 23, 2014)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ results.ittf.link . (accessed July 1, 2018).
2. ↑ The name of the (family) place of origin (here a village in the state of Andhra Pradesh) is, as is common in southern India, abbreviated in front of the name, Sharath Kamal is the nickname. Family names based on the German pattern are not common in South India. Sometimes the place name in front is seen as a family name.
3. ↑ Kamal Achanta switches to Werder , article in Weserkurier on March 15, 2011 (accessed on June 23, 2014)
4. ↑ ^{a b} magazine tischtennis , 2012/10 page 7
5. ↑ Borussia signs Indian national player Achanta (accessed on April 9, 2013)
6. ↑ Personnel - Kamal Achanta extended by one year ( memento of the original from January 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on January 24, 2016) 
7. ↑ ttbl.de: Kamal Achanta replaces Ricardo Walther. January 9, 2017, accessed April 3, 2017 . 
8. ↑ Season 2018/19: Achanta returns (accessed on May 29, 2018)
9. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2019/2 page 6
10. ↑ Results from the ITTF database ( memento of the original from January 11, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on February 8, 2019)