Denied CWG 2026 chance, Indian paddlers seek glory at revived Commonwealth Championships

5 min readJul 28, 2026 08:32 PM IST Paddlers take part in the Commonwealth Table Tennis Championships at Delhi's Thyagraj Stadium. (Express Photo | Bhuvan Gupta)As a truncated Indian contingent vies for glory in Glasgow, India’s table tennis players look on ruefully. The sport is one of nine disciplines, omitted from the 2026 Commonwealth Games (CWG) roster, and has historically enjoyed rich medal hauls at this event – a rarity for it at comparable or larger-scale competitions.To assuage that disappointment, the Commonwealth Table Tennis Championships have been revived at Delhi’s Thyagraj Stadium alongside the CWG. Six out of the eight editions have been in India, with the previous one held in Cuttack in 2019. The fact that Commonwealth TT’s chairperson (Vivek Kohli), president (Dushyant C