The Table Tennis Federation Of India has arranged for a Korean Coach to train the U.P. Table Tennis Players on the request of U.P. Table Tennis Association. Coach from DPR Korea Jong Son An will impart training to about 26 promising and up coming players of the state. The coaching camp will be held from 1st to 15th July, 2013 at Eklavya Stadium, Table Tennis Complex, Agra with the help of Sports Directorate, Govt. Of U.P. Vijay Singh and Sunil Joshi NIS table tennis coaches of State Govt. will assist the Korean Coach. It is hoped that this coaching camp will highly beneficial for promising and upcoming players of the state.We hopefully to see state paddlers doing well at the National in future after the Camp. The UPTTA is committed to produce players of International repute, for which no stones will be left interned.

The entire cost of the coaching camp will be borne by the U.P. Table Tennis Association.

The following players have been selected for the Koren Coach Camp on the basis of their state ranking.

The enrollment fee for the above mentioned coaching camp is Rs. 2000/- per player.

Last year for the First time, UP Table Tennis Association conducted a Special Coaching camp for 20 odd Sub Junior and Junior paddlers at Agra from 7 – 27 June, 2012 under the watchful guidance of DPR Korea Coach Ri To Yong. Within seven months’ time, the efforts reaped a rich harvest as UP paddlers won the Bronze medals in the Sub Junior National Championships at Gandhidham in January and  5 players got India Ranking in Sub Juniors category Aishwarya Pathak India Ranked 6, Saundarya Pathak - 12, Varun Gupta -15, Sarthak Seth – 17 and Abhinav Belwal in Junior India No. 27.

Recently UPTTA has sent 5 Sub Juniors Abhinav Belwal, Sarthak Sharma, Sarthak Seth, Aishwarya Pathak and Saundarya Pathak to China for advanced training at Zhengding National Table Tennis Training Base, China from 1 – 21 June, 2013 a first of its kind in the history of the Association.