Manjit Singh Dua- Sikhs The Supreme

Born and brought up at Delhi S. Manjit Singh Dua, a star on the national table tennis circuit, created history in 1973 when he was declared National Champion of Table Tennis in a competition held in Madras. It was for the FIRST time that a player of table tennis from North India got the honour. In 1974 he repeated the feat when under his captaincy Delhi T.T. team stood at number one and won the national title for the FIRST time in the history. Again in the National T.T. Championship in 1980, Delhi T.T. Team won National Title for the 2nd time under his captaincy. In 1974 he was ranked number one T.T. player in the country, besides best sportsman of Delhi and was honoured with ARJUNA award. In 1973 he also won national title for North India in Table Tennis at Jalandhar by over powering Mr. Mir Kasim Ali, the reigning champion and clinched for himself the honour of new Table Tennis Champion. The Mighty Sikhs / 202 In the years 1976 and 1979 he again captured the title of National Table Tennis Champion for the second and third time.

M.S. Dua is the player who dominated the Indian Table Tennis for the longest ever period. Hardly any other Indian T.T. player could claim such long innings. Since 1973 he had been representing India in all the major table tennis events all over the world and had won all major tournaments for the country while captaining Delhi. In the Commonwealth Table Tennis Championship at Bombay in February 1982 he won a bronze in the men's Singles.

Mr. Dua who caught the public eye in 1967 when he was selected for the Delhi Table Tennis team and very soon started to be considered a star performer of the Indian table tennis. He represented India in T.T. World Championships in Calcutta (India), Birmingham (U.K.), Jarajevo (Yugoslavia), Pyongyong (Korea) and Novisad (Yugoslavia); in the Asian T.T. Championships at China, DPR Korea, Malaysia, Japan, Calcutta and Indonesia and the Commonwealth T.T. Championships at Cardiff, Australia, Scotland and Bombay.

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