Nationality Indian Weight 63 kg | Height 1.8 m | |
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Parents Girish Batra, Sushma Batra Similar Mouma Das, Soumyajit Ghosh, Sharath Kamal Achanta, Anthony Amalraj, Poulomi Ghatak | ||
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Manika Batra (born 15 June 1995) is an Indian table tennis player. As of June 2016, she is the top-ranked female table tennis player in India and ranked 115th in the world.
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- 2016 bulgaria open highlights manika batra vs lin po hsuan u21 r16
- Manika batra last set zagreb open 2016
- Early life
- Career
- References
Manika batra last set zagreb open 2016
Early life
Batra was born on 15 June 1995 as the youngest of three children. She hails from Naraina Vihar in Delhi and began playing table tennis at the age of four. Her elder sister Anchal and elder brother Sahil both played table tennis, with Anchal having an influence on her during her early playing career. After winning a match in a state-level under-8 tournament, Batra decided to train under coach Sandeep Gupta who suggested her to switch to Hans Raj Model School where he ran his academy.
Batra turned down many modelling offers as a teenager. When she was 16, she rejected a scholarship to train at the Peter Karlsson Academy in Sweden. She studied at the Jesus and Mary College for a year before dropping out to "concentrate" on table tennis.
Career
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 quarterfianalist, as well as the 2014 Asian Games. She won three medals at the 2015 Commonwealth Table Tennis Championships, winning silver in the women's team event (with Ankita Das and Mouma Das) as well as the women's doubles event (with Ankita Das) and bronze in the women's singles event.
Batra won three gold medals at the 2016 South Asian Games, winning the women's doubles event (with Pooja Sahasrabudhe), mixed doubles event (with Anthony Amalraj) and women's team event (with Mouma Das and Shamini Kumaresan). Batra was denied a fourth gold medal at the Games by Mouma Das, who defeated her in the final of the women's singles event. She qualified for the women's singles event of the 2016 Summer Olympics by winning the South Asia group of the qualification tournament in April 2016. However, her appearance at the 2016 Olympics short-lived, as she lost to Katarzyna Franc-Grzybowska of Poland in the first round of the women's individual event.