21 Facts About Manika Batra

Manika Batra was born on 15 June 1995 and is an Indian table tennis player.

Manika Batra is the top female table tennis player in India and she is currently world number 39 in ITTF as of May 2023.

Manika Batra is one of the female players who use long pimple rubber.

Manika Batra was awarded the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna in 2020.

Manika Batra studied at the Jesus and Mary College, New Delhi for a year before dropping out to concentrate on table tennis.

In 2011, Manika Batra won the silver medal in the under-21 category of the Chile Open.

Manika Batra represented India at the 2014 Commonwealth Games at Glasgow, where she finished quarterfinalist, as well as the 2014 Asian Games.

Manika Batra won three medals at the 2015 Commonwealth Table Tennis Championships, winning silver in the women's team event as well as the women's doubles event and bronze in the women's singles event.

Manika Batra won three gold medals at the 2016 South Asian Games, winning the women's doubles event, mixed doubles event and women's team event.

Manika 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.

Manika Batra led the Indian women's team to a gold medal win in the final against four-time gold medalists and defending champions Singapore at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia.

Manika Batra became the first Indian woman to bag a commonwealth table tennis individual gold medal in CWG 2018 by beating Yu Mengyu of Singapore.

Manika Batra won 4 medals in 4 events she was participating out of which 2 are gold, 1 silver and 1 bronze medal.

At the 2019 Commonwealth Table Tennis Championships, Manika Batra was the member of the women's team which win the gold by defeating Singapore in the final.

At the 2020 Summer Olympics, Manika Batra reached the third round of the women's singles event, becoming the first Indian paddler to reach the third round at the Olympics in a singles event.

Manika Batra participated at the 1st ever WTT Grand Smash event which was the Singapore Smash 2022.

Manika Batra settled for silver at WTT Contender Doha 2022 with Sathiyan Gnanasekaran in mixed doubles where they lost against the top-seeded Chinese Taipei pair of Lin Yun-ju and Cheng I-Ching.

Manika Batra then bagged a bronze at WTT Star Contender Doha 2022 in women's doubles event with Archana Girish Kamath.

In September 2021, Manika Batra accused Indian National Coach Soumyadeep Roy of pressuring her to throw a match at the Olympic Qualifiers to his personal student.

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

Manika Batra featured in the November 2018 edition of Vogue Magazine.