UTT 2025: All you need to know about Ultimate Table Tennis Season 6 Player Auction
Chinese paddler Fan Siqi, World No. 13 Bernadette Szocs, Olympians Aruna Quadri and Alvaro Robles, and several rising Indian paddlers led by junior World No. 6 Ankur Bhattacharjee, will headline the Ultimate Table Tennis (UTT) Season 6 player auction, set to take place in Mumbai on Tuesday.
For the first time in UTT history, team rosters will be shaped through a unique player auction, giving franchises greater control over their recruitment and strategies.
Among the 56 players in the auction pool, Diya Chitale, Yashaswini Ghorpade, Syndrela Das, and former U-17 World No. 1 Payas Jain lead a group of 25 rising Indian stars. They join seasoned pros like two-time champion Harmeet Desai, former winners Sathiyan Gnanasekaran, Manika Batra, Sutirtha Mukherjee, and WTT Contender Lagos 2024 winner Sreeja Akula.
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All eight teams have been allotted INR 50 lakh virtual tokens to bid on the players, along with a one-time Right to Match (RTM) card to retain a player from the previous season by matching the final bid price.
The franchise-based league will take place from May 29 to June 15 at the EKA Arena in Ahmedabad.
Twelve of the 16 foreign paddlers to feature in UTT Season 6 auction are Olympians. Among those returning from previous seasons are UTT Season 2 champion Adriana Diaz and Spaniard Maria Xiao. Making their debuts are Britt Eerland, Dina Meshref, Zeng Jian, and Giorgia Piccolin. France’s Lilian Bardet, who impressed on his debut last season, returns, while former UTT champion Tiago Apolónia and Kirill Gerassimenko add experience. Kanak Jha, Ricardo Walther, and Izaac Quek are entering the player pool for the first time.
Players will be divided into four base price categories—Pool A (11 lakh tokens), Pool B (7 lakh), Pool C (4 lakh), and Pool D (2 lakh). Bidding will follow a structured format with increments of 10,000 tokens, ensuring a competitive and strategic selection process as teams build their squads for UTT Season 6.
UTT Season 6 Auction Pool
Pool A (11 lakh tokens): Alvaro Robles (Spain), Kanak Jha (United States of America), Kirill Gerassimenko (Kazakhstan), Ricardo Walther (Germany), Quadri Aruna (Nigeria), Adriana Diaz (Puerto Rico), Bernadette Szocs (Romania), Britt Eerland (Netherlands), Dina Meshref (Egypt), Fan Siqi (China), Manika Batra, Sreeja Akula
Pool B (7 lakh tokens): Lilian Badet (France), Tiago Apolónia (Portugal), Quek Izaac (Singapore), Giorgia Piccolin (Italy), Maria Xiao (Spain), Zeng Jian (Singapore), Ankur Bhattacharjee, Harmeet Desai, Sathiyan Gnanasekaran, Diya Chitale, Sutirtha Mukherjee, Swastika Ghosh, Yashaswini Ghorpade
Pool C (4 lakh tokens): Akash Pal, Anirban Ghosh, Divyansh Srivastava, Payas Jain, Ronit Bhanja, Snehit Suravajjula, Anusha Kutumbale, Krittwika Sinha Roy, Madhurika Patkar, Reeth Rishya, Syndrela Das, Taneesha Kotecha
Pool D (2 lakh tokens): Chinmaya Somaiya, Deepit Patil, Jeet Chandra, Mudit Dani, P.B. Abhinandh, Raegan Albuquerque, Raj Mondal, Sarth Mishra, Sourav Saha, Sudhanshu Grover, Yashansh Malik, Ananya Chande, Jennifer Varghese, Nikhat Banu, Pritha Vartikar, Sayali Wani, Selena Selvakumar, Suhana Saini, Yashini Sivashankar