Mysuru: The  Director of Physical Education Department, University of Mysore, Dr. P. Krishnaiah along with  Dr.B.R. Sainath Iyer, a Karnataka Veteran Table Tennis (TT) player, had organised a function to celebrate World Table Tennis Day in the Departmental auditorium on Apr.6.

About 100 people attended. N.S. Singh, an ex-President of Mysore District Table Tennis Association,  its Founder-Member and a Senior Veteran Player with Gold in National 80 +Men’s Doubles and Team Championship in his pocket, was the chief guest.

Dr. Sainath Iyer gave a talk on “ Why World Table Tennis Day?” and explained the ITTF theme for the day to popularise the concept of ‘TT for all’ in Mysuru and also emphasised how “Sports For  All” and “ Elite (Competitive) Sports” are strongly intertwined for their existence individually and together by using interesting TT video clips on TT.