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| Born | 2 April 2003 Mumbai, Maharashtra, India | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Table tennis | ||||||||||||||
| League | Ultimate Table Tennis | ||||||||||||||
| Club | Dabang Delhi TTC | ||||||||||||||
| Team | Reserve Bank of India | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Diya Chitale (born 2 April 2003) is an Indian table tennis player .[1] She won her maiden National championship in 2025. She plays for Dabang Delhi in the Ultimate Table Tennis league.[2] She represents Reserve Bank of India (RBI) in the domestic events.[3] Along with Manush Shah, the duo became the first Indian pair to qualify for World Table Tennis (WTT) Finals.[4]
Career
[edit]Chitale took table tennis seriously only after she won a silver medal at the Under 12 Nationals. By 2015, she is fully focused and won both the girl's Under 15 singles and doubles National championship. In 2019, she won the Under 18 and Under 21 girl's singles championship in the Junior and Youth National Championships. In 2019, she also won the singles and doubles in the Girls' Under 18 event at the Ghana Junior and Cadet Open. In 2020, she retained the Under 21 Girls' title at the Junior and Youth National Championship. In 2022, she won the Under 19 Girls' singles WTT Youth Contender at Lima.[2]
In 2023, she won her first Senior National title as she clinched the doubles championship. In 2024, she won the mixed doubles at the WTT Feeder at Beirut.[5] In 2025, she won the mixed doubles in the WTT at Tunis along with her partner Manush Shah.[6] The pair also became the first Indian players to qualify for the WTT finals.[7]
In 2025, she was UTT's most expensive player, as she was retained by Dabang Delhi for Rs 14.1 lakh. In 2023, she played for U Mumba in her first season.[6]
In 2026, she won the mixed doubles event in the World Table Tennis (WTT) Contender at Muscat.[2]
In 2026, Chitale and Manush Shah won the bronze medal in the mixed doubles event at the 2026 Asian Games in Aichi–Nagoya, Japan.[8]
Finals
[edit]Mixed doubles
[edit]| Result | Year | Tournament | Partner | Opponent | Score | Ref |
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| Winner | 2026 | WTT Contender Lagos |  Manush Shah |
 Leo De Nodrest / Camille Lutz |
3–0 | [9] |
References
[edit]- ↑ "World Table Tennis". www.worldtabletennis.com. Retrieved 23 March 2026.
- 1 2 3 "Diya Chitale (IND) | Sponsoring | Butterfly Global Site: Table Tennis Equipment". www.butterfly-global.com. Retrieved 23 March 2026.
- ↑ Karhadkar, Amol (20 March 2026). "National TT: Diya, Manav in semis; Yashaswini stuns Sreeja". The Hindu. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 23 March 2026.
- ↑ Desai, Shail (23 November 2025). "Rising stars Diya Chitale and Manush Shah make history as India's first pair to qualify for World Table Tennis finals". mint. Retrieved 23 March 2026.
- ↑ "Diya Chitale overcomes setbacks to become India's top woman paddler". The Times of India. 11 September 2025. ISSN 0971-8257. Retrieved 23 March 2026.
- 1 2 Kusari, Kingshuk (13 June 2025). "Diya Chitale: The tiny titan of Indian table tennis dreams". India Today. Retrieved 23 March 2026.
- ↑ "Diya Chitale, Manush Shah create history; become first Indians to qualify for WTT Finals". Olympics. 28 October 2025. Retrieved 23 March 2026.
- ↑ "Asian Games: Diya Chitale, Manush Shah storm into mixed doubles semifinals, assure table tennis medal". The Times of India. 25 September 2026. Retrieved 25 September 2026.
- ↑ "WTT Contender Lagos 2026". worldtabletennis.com. Retrieved 23 May 2026.