Manika Batra

Manika Batra
Full nameManika Batra
Nationality Indian
Born (1995-06-15) 15 June 1995 (age 29)
Delhi, India
Height1.8 m (5 ft 11 in)[1]
Weight67 kg (148 lb)
Table tennis career
Playing styleShakehand grip
Highest ranking24 (May 2024)
Current ranking27 (Nov 2024)
Club

Manika Batra (born 15 June 1995) is an Indian table tennis player.[2] She is a triple gold medalist at the South Asian Games, a double gold medalist at the Commonwealth Games, and a bronze medalist at the Asian Games, Asian Championships, and Asian Cup. She is India's number two in women and her world rank is 27 as of Nov 2024.[3]

Batra is the first Indian woman to have won a bronze at the Asian Cup.[4] She is one of the players who uses a long pimple rubber.[5] She was honored with the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna in 2020.[6]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference cwg was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Manika Batra | Profile". World Table Tennis. Retrieved 10 October 2024.
  3. ^ "ITTF Table Tennis Rankings". ITTF. 31 July 2024. Retrieved 1 August 2024.
  4. ^ "Manika Batra becomes the first Indian woman to win a bronze at the Asian Cup - Cosmopolitan India". www.cosmopolitan.in. Retrieved 8 October 2024.
  5. ^ "ITTF Table Tennis World Ranking". ittf.com. Archived from the original on 22 November 2016. Retrieved 19 November 2022.
  6. ^ "'It motivates me to work harder': Manika Batra on winning Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna". DNA India. 29 August 2020. Archived from the original on 18 October 2020. Retrieved 18 October 2020.