Sports News

November 03, 2008

Cricket :
Opener Rajib Saha scored brilliant 58 to put Tripura in a sizeable total of 206 for 7 against Services after day one of four-day Ranji Trophy cricket tournament in plate-B pool in New Delhi on Monday. Elected to bat first at Palam Air Force ground, two openers Rajib and Sourav Dubey (16) started very well. Then, Timir Chanda (19) and Mumbai professional Nishit Shetty (34) supported in the middle. But Rajesh Banik (5), Subal Chowdhury (0) and skipper Tushar Saha (0) back quickly in to pavilion and Tripura fall in deep trouble. In eighth wickets Abhijit Dey (unbeaten 32) and kipper batsmen Rajib Datta (unbeaten 22) batted very well and Tripura touched the two hundred mark. For Services, Rakesh Took four for 68 and S. S. Karmakar bagged 3 for 43.

Tripura lost their last match against Orissa by one run in the Vinoo Mankad Trophy one-day cricket match for under-19 boys in Kolkata on October 29 last. In this rain hit match, put in to bat first Orissa scored 144 runs in stipulated 25 runs. Gobinda Podder scored 39, Ajay Routh 35 and Sanjib Barik made 30. For Tripura, Swapan Das, Abhijit Chakraborty and Sulav Majumder took two wickets each. Set for the target of 145 runs, Tripura scored 143 for 7 in 25 over. Swapan Das made 25 and Samir Debbarma scored 28. Brief Score : Orissa – 144/7 (25 over), Tripura – 143/7 (25 over).

Football :
Shyamali Debbarma was selected to lead Tripura under-19 girl's football for National Junior Football tournament at Gurgown, Hariyana from November 3-19 next. Tripura will play against Bihar and New Delhi for their two group matches. Selected team were – Shyamali Debbarma (Captain), Soma Ghosh, Shibani Banik, Swarnalata Debbarma, Rupasree Jamatia, Chandramala Debbarma, Bhagyalaxmi Debbarma, Aruna Debbarma, Namita Debarma, Mita Sarkar, Dipali Begam, Mani Karmakar, Sumanti Jamatia, Lalmoy Malsom, Kabita Debbarma, Sobhadebi Jamatia, Rupati Debbarma, Sumitra Debbarma, Kriskili Darlong. Coach : Subod Debbarma.

Womens Sports :
Tripura will participate in the National Women Sports in Kolkata from November 12-15 next. The tournament will be held on four events – Kho-Kho, Kabaddi, Gymnastics and Volleyball.

Table Tennis :
Tripura will participate in the National Sub-junior Table Tennis Championship from November 24-30 next in Vijaywara, Andhra Pradesh.

Volleyball :
Tripura will participate in the National Sub-junior Volleyball Championship from November 27 next in Jammu & Kashmir.

Sports News

September 20, 2008

Football :

North Eastern Federation Cup Football tournament will be held at Belonia of South Tripura district from September 25 next. Finance Minister Badal Chowdhury was opened this tournament. Five teams including Ageya Cholo Sangha of Tripura will participate in this tournament. Gopinath Paiyn was nominated Match Commissioner of this tournament. Four officials – Rathin Mukharjee and Biplab Podder both from Bengal, S. Sujauddin from Jharkhanda and J. P. Pandit from Bihar – also conduct this tournament. Two top teams will qualify for next phase of tournament.

Fixture :

September 25 : F. C. Kulikawn – ASEB
September 26 : Khliehriat West Club – North Imphal s. Assn.
September 27 : Ageya Cholo – Winner of September 25 match
September 28 : Rest Day.
September 29 : Final

Litan Saha was selected as captain of Tripura sub-junior football at Halduyani, Uttaranchal this year. Altogether twenty footballers were selected by Tripura Football Association. Selected players are, Arup Nag, Sanjoy Debbarma, Joswa Debbarma, Hafiz Sadhan Jamatia, Prasenjit Ghosh, Amrit Debbarma, Ajit Debbarma, Rexona Debbarma, Emanuel Debbarma, Litan Saha (Captain), Pritam Debbarma, Dijaraj Ghosh, Biswajit Harijan, Ramajoy Reang, Pradip Marak, John Debbarma, Sukesh Debbarma, Pabitra Sadhan Jamatia, Nilakishor Jamatia and Rajib Debbarma. Coach : Sujit Ghosh, Manager : Tapash Debnath.

Cricket :
Twenty women cricketers were selected for selection cum trial camp of Tripura Cricket Association. The camp started on Saturday last. Selected cricketers are, Anita Debbarma, Rima Chakraborty, Annapurna Das, Priyanka Acherjee, Moutoshi Dey, Indrarani Jamatia, Silpi Debbarma, Rita Debbarma, Bina Jamatia, Tagori Debnath, Ruma Das, Sarvani Debnath, Sujaita Roy, Mouchaiti Debnath, Pampi Das, Sushmita Chakraborty, Sulakhana Roy, Shymali Deb, Snigdha Sinha and Alivia Sinha.

Table Tennis :
Udaipur bagged both Men & Women team title in the State Level Table Tennis Championship here today. In the second day of this championship at Friends Union Club of Agartala team championship was finished in all section.
Result :
Men section : Champion – Udaipur, Runners – Sadar’A’
Women section : Champion – Udaipur, Runners – Sadar’A’
Junior Boys section : Champion – Belonia, Runners – Udaipur
Junior Girls section : Champion – Udaipur, Runners – Sadar’A’
Sub-Junior Boys section : Champion – Sadar ‘C’, Runners – Udaipur
Sub-junior Girla section : Champion – Sadar ‘A’, Runners – Udaipur
Cadet Boys section : Champion – Udaipur, Runners – Belonia
Cadet Girls section : Champion – Sadar ‘A’, Runners – Belonia

Sports News

September 19, 2008

Football :

Agriculture beat Public Works Department by 1-0 goals in the Inter Office Football Tournament here today. In the inaugural match at Police ground, both the team wee locked 0-0 before lemon break. After break, Akther Hussein scored the decider for winning team. Earlier, DGP Pranay Sahaya was open this tournament. Besides this two, Tripura Police also participated in this tourney.

East Zone Inter University Football tournament will be held at Agartala on October 19-27 next. Altogether 39 Universities were confirmed their entry so far. Budget of this tournament are approximate six and half laks.

Table Tennis :

State Level Table Tennis Championship started here at Friends Union Club of Agatala today. Altogether 130 competitors were participated in the three-day tournament. Sports Secretary of Government of Tripura Madhusudhan Bhattacharjee was opened this tourney. Secretary of Tripura Sports Council Kamal Saha was present in the function.

TRIPURA TABLE TENNIS ASSO. MAY START RANKING TOURNAMENT

D. Ajay

The Tripura Table Tennis Asso was started functioning since from 1966 and different types of tournaments were started in Tripura since 1955.Now also different types of tournament are being held in different parts of the state. In maximum cases sub-divisional association or state level association is taking initiative. But the state level association is not taking any plan to start Ranking tournament in the state. Some proposals in brief have given below to implement the same in the state:
a) There may be 5(Five) stage tournaments like stage I, II, III, IV&V in a year.
b) Stage I: Sub-divisional tournament, District level tournament, Independence day tournament, Sub-divisional Club tournament)
c) Stage II: All Tripura Summer Meet, All Tripura winter Meet
d) Stage III: All Tripura open / invitational meet (Players will be eligible to get TA & DA either from association or from the organizing committee)
These 3(Three) tournaments of Stage II & III should be organized in 3(Three) separate district.
e) Stage IV: All Tripura School Meet & College Meet etc
f) Stage V: All Tripura State Championship

The points of the different tournaments may be scheduled as follows:

STAGE WINNER RUNNER LSF LQF LPQF
I 10 7 5 3 -
II 20 15 10 5 3
III 30 24 16 8 4
IV 20 15 10 5 3
V 50 40 30 20 10

The targeted time for the tournaments may be like as follows:

a) Sub-div. Tournament…………………………………February
b) District Tournament………………………………….April
c) Summer Tournament……………………………....….May
d) Inter Club Tournament……………………………..…July
e) Independence Day Tournament……………………....August
f) Invitational Tournament………………………………September
g) State Tournament……………………………………..October
h) Winter Tournament………………………………….. November
i) School/College Tournament………………….scheduled by concerned authority
j) December may be scheduled for special coaching camp etc.

A powerful sub-committee of the association will maintain the records of the ranking and the sub-committee will declare the ranks after every tournament. The introduction of ranking tournaments will not only enhance the performances of the players but also it will stop lots of unwanted incidents of the association.

Sports News

Football :

TOP STORY

Tripura Poilice lifted the title of First Division League Football tournament here today. In a crucial match at the Dasharath Dev Stadium, Badharghat, Police beat defending champion Ageya Cholo Sangha by 3-2 goals. Striker Kiran Chhatri scored two and Paresh Mukharjee netted one for Police team. On other side, Liberian striket of Ageya Cholo James scored two goals.
With this win Police bagged 18 points from eight matches and confirmed the champion trophy, while Ageya Cholo now in the third position with 11 points from eight matches.

North Eastern Federation Cup Football tournament will be held on September 25 next at Belonia, Tripura. Ageya Cholo Sangha will participate in this tourney. Altogether five teams - F. C. Kulikawn (Mizoram), Assam State Electricity Board (Assam), Khliehriat West Club (Meghalaya), North Imphal Sports Association (Manipur) and Ageya Cholo (Tripura) - from North East region will play in this five days tournament.
Fixture :
September 25 : F. C. Kulikawn – ASEB
September 26 : Khliehriat West Club – North Imphal s. Assn.
September 27 : Ageya Cholo – Winner of September 25 match
September 28 : Rest Day.
September 29 : Final

Table Tennis :
State Level Table Tennis Championship will be held at Friends Union, Agartala on September 19-21 next.

Sports News

August 31, 2008

Football :
Nine Bullets upset hot favorite Ageya Cholo Sangha by 3-3 goals in the domestic First Division League Football Tournament here today. In a crucial match at the Dashrath Dev Stadium, Badharghat, Sanjoy Toppo netted two goals and Nine Bullets took lead by 2-0 in 25th and 32nd minute. Then Ageya Cholo bounced back and scored three goals by Liberian striker James (33rd and 35th minute) and Saijul Ali (45th minute). After lemon break, Ranadip Dey scored a brilliant goal and Nine Bullets leveled the score (3-3) in 69th minute. With this draw, Ageya Cholo earned eight points from five matches while Nine Bullets bagged seven points from five matches.

Athletics :
Sima Debbarma bagged Silver medal in High Jump for under-14 girls in the Inter Zone Athletics Championship at TATA Nagar, Jemshedpur today.

Cricket :
Tripura Cricket Association (TCA) will set up a Cricket Academy at Maharaja Bir Bickram Stadium, Agartala with in March 31, 2009. It was decided in an Executive Meeting of TCA here today.
Annual Prize distribution ceremony of TCA will be held on third week of September. Five former cricketers have been selected for felicitation in the ceremony. Selected cricketers were – Dipak Datta, Aniruddha Dey, Bablu Sengupta, Sudip Chowdhury (Senior) and Paresh Roy.

School Sports :
Yaga & Judo : State Level School Yoga & Judo Championship starts at Belonia. Minister Manindra Reang was opened this three-day tournament. MLA Bashudev Majumder was present in this function.

Table Tennis :
A meeting of Tripura Table Tennis Association will be held on September 02 next.

Kabaddi :
Tripura will participate in the National Senior Kabaddi Tournament at Imphal, Manipur on September 05-07 next.

Ball Badminton :
State Ball Badminton Championship will be held at Bishalgarh on September 06-07 next.

Sports News

August 29, 2008

Football :

Forward Club registered second win in the domestic First Division League Football tournament here today. In a crucial match at the Dashrath Dev Stadium, Badharghat, Forward upset Tripura Police by 4-2 goals. Lanthan Kima struck first in 29th minute and Biswa Kalai increased the lead 2-0 before lemon break for Forward. After break, Kima netted another goal in 50th minute and and Jonson Darlong fined the net in 76th minute and Forward confirmed their victory with 4-0 goals. Trailing by big margin, Kiran Chhatri scored two goals in 79th and 82nd minute of the match. After this match, Forward bagged six points from four matches while Police team earned nine points from same numbers of match.

In another match at the same ground on Thursday last, Nine Bullets Club beat Nobodoy Sangha by 4-2 goals. Nigerian striker Benjimin scored two and Liberian striker Aron Iee Cole and Sanjoy Toppo scored for Nine Bullets. For Nobodoy, Liton Majumdar and Jagadish Debbarma netted two goals. Nine Bullets now earned six points from four matches while Nobodoy Sangha finished four points after same numbers of matches.

Badminton :
State level Badminton Championship will be held at NSRCC, Agartala on September 13-15 next.

S. M. Cup :
Tripura will play against Srilankan School team and other four states and unit school football teams in the Subrata Mukherjee Cup School Football tournament in New Delhi on September 02 next.
Fixture :
September 02 : Tripura – AFBBS
September 03 : Tripura – Nagaland
September 04 : Tripura – Srilanka
September 05 : Tripura – Uttarkhanda
September 06 : Tripura – Assam

School Sports :
Football : Tripura Sports School lifted the title of State Level Under-19 School Football tournament this year. In the final match at the Umakanta Mini Stadium, Sports School beat South District team by 2-0 goals.

Table Tennis : South District dominated in all sections of State Level School Table Tennis Championship at NSRCC, Agartala.
Result :
Under 14 Boys : Champion : West District, Runners : South District.
Under 14 Girls : Champion : South District, Runners : West District.
Under 17 Boys : Champion : South District, Runners : West District.
Under 17 Girls : Champion : South District, Runners : West District.
Under 19 Boys : Champion : South District, Runners : West District.
Under 19 Girls : Champion : West District, Runners : North District.

Swimming : West District clinched the title of State Level School Swimming Championship with 421 points here at Raima Swimming Pool, Badharghat. After 72 categories, South District finished second position with 395 points. Next three position were Tripura Sports School (124), North District (84) and Dhalai District (22).

GRIPPING OF TABLE TENNIS RACKET

D. Ajay

There is no concrete rule regarding the gripping or holding a table tennis racket in a game or a match by the INTERNATIONAL TABLE TENNIS FEDERATION. Only RACKET HAND and FREE HAND have been mentioned in the ITTF rule. RACKET HAND means the hand on which the racket is held and the FREE HAND means the hand on which racket is not held i.e. free. On the basis of these, a player is allowed to use only one hand for holding the racket on his own way and the player will not be allowed to use both the hand for holding or gripping the racket and the player may be allowed to change his hand from left to right & vice-versa.

But the event cultivators observed few types of gripping are very much convenient to the players for achieving maximum performance. For this reason players are commonly using the following types of grips:

a) PEN HOLD
The style of gripping the racket by the player in this method is similar to the way of holding the pen or pencil etc. The Chinese, Japanese and Korean players are commonly using this style. Normally one side of the racket is being used in this style.
But nowadays some of the players of the above countries are using both the side of the racket with a new technique of pen hold gripping.

b) SHAKE HAND
Similarly the shake hand grip means the style of gripping the racket by the player like to the way one makes hand shake with other. Normally Indian players are using this style.

c) SEEMILLER GRIP
But recently a new style has been successfully introduced which is modified type of shake hand grip. Here thumb and fore finger form a ‘V’ shape on the back hand side of the racket. This style of grip is known as ‘Seemiller Grip’ in the name of successful user Danny Seemiller of United States.

POPULARITY OF TABLE TENNIS

D. Ajay

Since the inception of the event Table Tennis event i.e. starting from the period of Ping Pong, the event were experienced lots of changes & modifications on rules – regulations-equipments etc on several occasions till today. These are only for increasing the popularity of the game. But it was never reached to the good position in International level. Whenever the popularity increases in a part of the world, the same will be decreased in another part. These are happening due to one of the basic characteristics of the event i.e. speedy game.

The numbers of rallies for a point are very less. The spectators of the event are feeling bore on maximum occasion as it is not clearly visible, accountable & charming to them. The event cultivators introduced 40 mm. diameter ball replacing the 38 mm. diameter ball after lots of experiment for increasing the continuation of rally only in a point since 2001-2002. But the percentages of effect were very less. Again the procedure of a game and match were altered and here the attractions of the spectators or sports lovers have been observed.

Few number of Table Tennis organizations of the developed country have already started fashion show on Table Tennis recently for increasing the popularity of the game. The same types of cats walk were performed at Tura during the NORTH EAST SPORTS FESTIVAL in the year as a part of the cultural programmed in the closing of Table Tennis event.

But these amounts of spectators for million numbers of players are not at all sufficient. So now the event cultivators are thinking to introduce something new item to make the event appeal & stylist for attracting the public.

Recently it is learnt that a renowned country of Table Tennis may bring the changes of uniforms i.e. mainly cloths of women category to make the event more appelatic & stylist for enhancing the popularity of the game. The length of the skirt of the women players will be reduced & practically that was trialed in one occasion by the world categogy of Table Tennis Players of China. So the observance of the spark of the popularity is awaited now. (Ref.ANI) .

BI-COLOUR SIDE OF THE RACKET

D. Ajay

Both the sides of a racket were same in colour in the eight decade of the nineteen centaury and the then players were using different types of rubber on both the side. So it was very tough for the opponent player to guess the quality of the coming stroke and return the ball within the very short time. This was ultimately reducing the continuity of play which is not at all the motto of International Table tennis Federation.

Different types of rubbers are producing different types of strokes. When a category of rubber produces spin, other category of rubber absorbs spin. Like this rubbers are available for fast stroke and anti-spin stroke etc.

It was allowed to use one side rubber of a racket for imparting spin with a combination of another side for imparting no spin or one side for absorbing spin & another side for imparting speed during that period. More over players were rotating their racket from fore hand to back hand & vice versa in a rally for scoring a point in a game by tricking the opponent. This was resulted very less number of rallies for a point which ultimately was making the event charm less.

So the event cultivators decided that the receiver should get the chance to think about the coming stroke for making it return. As the result, the ITTF changed the rule regarding the rubbers of a racket like this:

a) Rubbers of both side of a racket must be of different colour.
b) The colour of both the side must be red & black.
c) If one side of a racket is not used by the player, it must be coloured with the other colour of the used colour.
d) All the players will be allowed to check the rackets of the opponent of the match just before the starting of the game of a match.

These are all only for providing the chance to the opponent to recognize the types of coming stroke made by the opponent.

ARJUNA OF TABLE TENNIS

D. Ajay

Here ARJUNA means award which is the most prestigious, glorious and honorable award in Indian sports. Department Sports & Youth Affairs, Govt. of India are awarding this extra ordinary honor to the extra ordinary players of our country for their fabulous and unexpected performances in the international level competition during the period of last three years including that particular year on which year they are being selected. Of course the players are being considered for their qualities of leadership, sportsmanship and sense of discipline along with their performances.

It is probably the second highest award after RAJIB GHANDI KHEL RATNA in Indian sports offered by Govt. of India

Generally one player from one sports event is being selected by the department for one year. But it is not obvious that all the events will be considered in every year. The category of events has been declared in 2002 by the Ministry as either:

a) Cricket or
b) An event of Olympic Games or
c) An event of Asian Games or
d) An event of Commonwealth Games or
e) An event of World Championship or
f) Indigenous Games or
g) An event of sports for the physically challenge.

The award carries:

a) A statuette
b) A scroll of honor or citation
c) A set of ceremonial uniform.
d) Cash award of Rs. 3,00,000/-( earlier Rs.1,00,000/-)The event Table tennis was included in the category since it was started i.e. 1961 & the following 22 nos. of table tennis were bestowed by this award till today:

1) MR. J.C. VOHRA IN 1961
2) MR. G.R. DEEWAN IN 1965
3) MRS. U. SUNDARARAJ IN 1966
4) MR. F.R. KHODAIJI IN 1967
5) MD. MIR KASIM ALI IN 1969
6) MR. G. JAGANNATH IN 1970
7) MRS. K.F. KHODAIJI IN 1971
8) MR. N.R.BAJAJ IN 1973
9) MRS. S. SHAILJA IN 1976
10) MRS. INDU PURI IN 1980
11) MR. MANJIT DUA IN 1981
12) MR.V. CHANDRA SHEKHAR IN 1982
13) MR KAMALESH MEHETA IN 1985
14) MRS MONALISA BARUA IN 1987
15) MRS NIYATI SHAH IN 1989
16) MR. M.S. WALIA IN 1990
17) MR. CHETAN P. BABOOR IN 1997
18) MR. SUBRAMANIAM RAMAN IN 1998
19) MRS MANTU GHOSH IN 2002
20) MR ARCHANTA SARATH KAMAL IN 2004
21) MR.SOUMYADEEP ROY IN 2005
22) MR. SUBHAJIT SAHA IN 2007

It is clear from the above that the overall performances of the players of the event TABLE TENNIS in India are very much remarkable with respect to the other event for about last 50 years. Although the table tennis players were unable to be selected by the authority for the lack of extra ordinary performances for certain period but it is hopeful that a player from Table Tennis event will be able to be selected for the award on every year from now by the current enthusiasm, true spirit of sports & action of Table Tennis Federation of India.

Smash Competition of Table Tennis

D. Ajay

Table Tennis is one of the fastest events of sports. Its ball moves very fast from one end of the board to the other end of the board in a rally of any standard level competition. In an average the speed of the ball is approx. 25 mph and it is crossing 2’54 meter i.e. from one end to another end of the playing surface within approx. ¼ second. So , it was very tough to measure the speed of the ball of the event as it moves within very small area.

But the thoughts of the event cultivators ultimately have given a solution on that matter. They were trying and adopting to measure the speed of the ball in the following process:

a) Using of a special type of camera having the facility of shutter speed and
adopting the estimated distance that a ball may travel over that duration
and calculating the average on that duration.

b) Analyzing the video footage of a smash and using the frame rate of the video and the location the ball as shown by the video to calculate the distance traveled during that duration.

c) Using the sound recorder by the video to measure the time interval between the striking the ball by the racket and dropping of the ball on the table and calculating the average by the distance and time during that time interval.

These are the processes are not giving any accurate result by which the speed of the ball of a rally can be measured. But recently the Inaugural World Fastest Smash Competition was held.

The 38 millimeter diameter ball was used for the competition as it is having more density than 40 millimeter diameter ball and sports speed radar gun was used for measuring the speed of the ball. The ball was stroked from a vertically dead drop where no inertia force was available.

As per Wellington Table Tennis, number of junior players of world category participated in the competition. The juniors from Japan, China and Chinese Taipei were also participated in the competition.

But the crown was achieved by a little known player who is a player of Volley ball and Marshal Arts also. His name is Mr. Lark Brandt and he plays table tennis in the Harewood Table Tennis club of Christchurch in New Zealand. He used the non- branded ITTF glue in the racket for getting more speed and it was allowed for that competition.

The speed of the ball of his smash was 112’5 kmph i.e. 69’9 mph which is now fastest in the world and the speed of the ball of runner-up was 107 kmph .But in any world class table tennis championship the average speed is 70 kmph. So the organizers are trying to include this fastest smash in the Guinness Book of World Record. This fastest smash was made with the key technique of timing, strength coupled along with the loose wrist and a flat smash.

Mr. Lark Brandt was won a brass replica canon set on New Zealand marble, an all black rugby shirt and a toy KIWI ( Kiwis are the national symbol of New Zealand).

Ref: http://www.ittf.com/.

GLUE-an important object of modern Table Tennis

D. Ajay

Glues are nothing but an adhesive and these are used in table tennis event for sticking the rubber(s) or covering material (s) with the wooden blade of the racquet. These are also used for sticking two number of rubber or covering material in case of sandwich rubber. But the glues which are in use of table tennis event not like normal adhesive of the common market. These are having special type of characteristics depending on the presence of different type of organic and in-organic substances. Generally the following substances are present in the glues:

Toxic substances
Aromatic substances
Chlorinated substances
Heptane substances
Volatile type
Cyclo-hexan substances etc.

The characteristic of the racquet varies depending on their percentage of presence in the used glue. Different types of glue are available in world table tennis market. Players of the world class championship are using various type of glue since 1970. After touching or sticking the ball by the rubber of the racquet the speed and spin of the ball changes depending on the quality of glues. Glues are very much useful for imparting speed or spin or anti-spin or fast attacking or absorbing spin etc. So players are using glues according to their own choice for their performance. Earlier players were using glue for few months. But nowadays the players are using glue for a week and sometimes it is for a tournament or for a match to achieve the maximum outcome of the glue.

Generally adhesives which are available in the normal market are non-toxic type and not so much harmful for human being especially for skin. No chance of active dermatitis disease or breathing problem found in case of contact of general adhesive available in the market with the body. But the glues which are used in table tennis event are having the chances of creating the above diseases. So these glues which are in use of table tennis event are not safe in use for human beings. The doctors related to the development of table tennis event feel to restrict the uses of glues as the event plays million of table tennis lovers.

The process on which glues are used in table tennis racquet is known as gluing. Earlier gluing was allowed in a marked area inside the stadium. After that, a separate room of the stadium was allotting by the organizing committee for gluing of the racquet. But this was not sufficient as the glues are very much un-hygienic for the health.

So the INTER NATIONAL TABLE TENNIS FEDERATION ( ITTF ) was bound to take some preventive measure restricting the branded glue with the limitation of percentage of organic and in-organic compound used in the glue. But these limitations was not sufficient for the players as there were no testing equipment available with the ITTF for testing the presence of offending compound in the used glue. So the players were violating the limitations of glue imposed by ITTF.

Ultimately the checking of the presence of the offending compound in glue of a racquet has been started in the last decade. Glue testing is nowadays a compulsory part of all the world level table tennis championship.

A German company WASSING has introduced a machine named ENEZ for testing the glue as ALLOWED or NOT ALLOWED. It is a electronic nose to sniff out the offending compound. This sniffing out are processing in a box or a container. The racquet is allowed to keep inside the container for 60 second after keeping open the container for 60 second and the electronic nose differentiate the offending compound with respect to each other and gives the result. For more accurate testing the RAE device may be used. RAE is also testing the ENEZ testing device.

Sometimes common methods are also being used by the organizing committee for testing the glue. The samples are being taken from the racquet through a syringe and dipping it into the testing solvent to check the change of the colour of the solvent. Incase case of the toxic glue the testing solvent will be changed to the brown type colour.

The outcome of the test is now safe for the users and it is enhancing the attraction of the event. It is because the number of rallies of a point i.e. continuation of play is more than earlier now.

Ref. Article:www.about.com.