India, July 19 -- Of the seven events in table tennis at the 2022 Asian Games in Hangzhou, India came close to winning medals in three, a haul that could have resulted in the country's best-ever performance at the Asiad. Instead, they returned with a solitary bronze medal, won by the women's doubles pair of Sutirtha Mukherjee and Ayhika Mukherjee, while the men's team and men's doubles bowed out in the quarterfinals. National coach Sourav Chakraborty still believes India's medal tally should have been higher and hopes those near misses can be converted into podium finishes this time at the upcoming Asian Games in Aichi-Nagoya, now just over a month away.

For the first time, Chakraborty has joined Ultimate Table Tennis as head coach of Ah...