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Manika Batra

Indian Table Tennis Player

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Manika Batra is an Indian table tennis player. As of January 2019, she is the top-ranked female table tennis player in India and ranked 47th in the world.

In 2011, Batra won the silver medal in the under-21 category of the Chile Open. She represented India at the 2014 Commonwealth Games at Glasgow, where she finished quarterfinalist, as well as the 2014 Asian Games. She won three medals at the 2015 Commonwealth Table Tennis Championship winning silver in the women's team event as well as the women's doubles event (with Ankita Das) and bronze in the women's singles event.

Batra and won India's maiden silver medal in the women's doubles category at the 2018 Common Wealtth Games losing to defending champions Feng Tianwei and Yu Mengyu of Singapore in the gold medal clash. Manika Batra became 1st Indian woman to bag a commonwealth table tennis individual gold medal in CWG 2018 by beating Yu Mengyu of Singapore. These games were like dream run for Batra as she won 4 medals in 4 events she was participating out of which 2 are gold, 1 silver and 1 bronze medal.

On 12 December 2018 she became the only Indian to receive "The Breakthrough Star Award" by ITTF.

Batra was featured on the cover of the July 2018 issue of Femina.

She also featured in the November 2018 edition of Vogue Magazine.