California, USA (CU)_ Nikhil Kumar, the 18-year-old Indian-American Table Tennis player, won his preliminary round match by beating Enkhbat Lkhagvasuren from Mongolia by a score of 4-1 (11-2, 11-6, 7-11, 11-5, 11-8) at the Tokyo Olympics 2021 Table Tennis. The 18-year-old paddler started his Tokyo Olympics campaign with a supreme win, completing the opening set in under 3 minutes. As the youngest American Table Tennis player in the Tokyo Olympics, he has started his Olympic tour on a positive note.
Kumar is a left-handed attacking player who has been playing table tennis since he was ten years old. At the March 1 competition, the paddler, who will shortly be studying Computer Science at the University of California in Berkeley, qualified for the Tokyo Olympic Summer Games by winning first place in the trials. Kumar, who was born in 2003, is competing in his first Olympics, and he is the second-youngest paddler to represent the United States at the Games.
Currently, Kumar is rated 177th in the world. He is a native of San Jose, California, and began his TT career in 2013, earning a position in the National Table Tennis Association of the United States of America. The other finest players in the team include Lily Zhang, Liu Juon, and his Indo-American companion Kanak Jha.
Kumar feels that his age has no bars on his performance because he has always competed against opponents who are older to him. Table tennis is a game that requires skill rather than age. He claims that players younger than him are far more powerful and are capable of beating him. He won the gold medal at the 2019 Pan American Games and won the bronze medal in the Men’s U21 division in the 2020 ITTF Portugal Open. The Indo-American has also earned a slew of other honors to his name.
California, USA (CU)_ Nikhil Kumar, the 18-year-old Indian-American Table Tennis player, won his preliminary round match by beating Enkhbat Lkhagvasuren from Mongolia by a score of 4-1 (11-2, 11-6, 7-11, 11-5, 11-8) at the Tokyo Olympics 2021 Table Tennis. The 18-year-old paddler started his Tokyo Olympics campaign with a supreme win, completing the opening set in under 3 minutes. As the youngest American Table Tennis player in the Tokyo Olympics, he has started his Olympic tour on a positive note.
Kumar is a left-handed attacking player who has been playing table tennis since he was ten years old. At the March 1 competition, the paddler, who will shortly be studying Computer Science at the University of California in Berkeley, qualified for the Tokyo Olympic Summer Games by winning first place in the trials. Kumar, who was born in 2003, is competing in his first Olympics, and he is the second-youngest paddler to represent the United States at the Games.
Currently, Kumar is rated 177th in the world. He is a native of San Jose, California, and began his TT career in 2013, earning a position in the National Table Tennis Association of the United States of America. The other finest players in the team include Lily Zhang, Liu Juon, and his Indo-American companion Kanak Jha.
Kumar feels that his age has no bars on his performance because he has always competed against opponents who are older to him. Table tennis is a game that requires skill rather than age. He claims that players younger than him are far more powerful and are capable of beating him. He won the gold medal at the 2019 Pan American Games and won the bronze medal in the Men’s U21 division in the 2020 ITTF Portugal Open. The Indo-American has also earned a slew of other honors to his name.
