Manika Batra is one of the best table tennis players

Manika Batra is an Indian Table Tennis Player and is illuminating the name of India in Table Tennis. Along with this, she was included in the list of Top Listed Women Table Tennis Player of India till January 2019. She has ranked 47th in the list of table tennis players of the world.

Apart from this, Manika Batra was also featured on the cover of Femina Magazine during July 2018. Not only this, she has also made her place on the cover of Vogue Magazine in November 2018.

Who are we Manika Batra in today’s article? We are going to talk about Manika Batra’s biography and Manika Batra’s career. So let’s know –

Who is Manika Batra ? Manika Batra Biography, Manika Batra table tennis player, Manika Batra career etc. 

Manika Batra was born on 15 June 1995 in New Delhi, the capital of the country. Table tennis player Manika Batra’s age is 26 years. They are three siblings out of which Manika is third. Manika Batra’s family is a resident of Narayan Vihar Delhi. She was very fond of table tennis since childhood. for this reason she started taking table tennis training since childhood. Manika’s sister and brother are both table tennis players and Manika was also fond of table tennis.

Manika Batra, who took table tennis training from the age of just 4, won the Under-8 competition at the state level. After that victory, Manika started taking training from Sandeep Gupta. She did her early education from Hansraj Model School.

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Manika Batra started getting many offers related to modeling during her teenage years. but she turned them all down and focused on her career. When she was 16 years old, Manika did not even refuse the scholarship. she got for training at Peter Carlsen Academy in Sweden.

After which Manika Batra studied for a year from Jesus and Mary College and started playing table tennis. In the year 2011, Manika won a silver medal in Under-21 at the Chile Open.

After which he also represented the country during the 2014 Commonwealth Games and Asian Games. During this, he made his place in the quarterfinals.

In the year 2015, Manika performed her brilliant game in the Commonwealth Table Tennis Championship and won three medals. In this round, Manika won the silver medal with Ankita Das and Mouma Das and after that she made her name by winning the bronze medal with Ankita Das.

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During the year 2016, she won three gold medals in the women’s doubles event of the South Asian Games along with Mouma Das, Shamini Kumaresan, Pooja Sahasrabuddhe and Anthony Amalraj. After this, during the same year, he also made his place in the Summer Olympics.

In the 2018 Commonwealth Games held in Goldcast, Australia, under the leadership of Manika Batra, the women’s table tennis team defeated Singapore and won the Gold Medal. This was a historic moment because the Singapore team had never lost since table tennis was added to the Commonwealth Games.

Manika defeated Yu Mengyu of Singapore during this time and gave India a gold medal in the table tennis women’s singles event for the first time. Along with this, he also won a silver medal along with Mouma Das. Whereas in the final he faced the pair of Fang Tianwei and Yu Mengyu where they had to face defeat.

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Manika Batra has given a total of 4 medals to the country in the women’s team and women’s singles in the Commonwealth Games. She has made her name among the best players of Indian table tennis. 

She has also been given the title of ‘Breakthrough Star’ by ITTF for her brilliant game in Table Tennis. And has also become the only Indian table tennis player to hold this title.

Talking about the Olympics, she has also shown her sporting performance in the Olympics and has brought laurels to India.