Manika Batra
As of 2017, Manika Batra is India’s top-ranked female table tennis player and is ranked 58th in the world. Check out Manika Batra Wiki, Height, Weight, Age, Family, Biography & More.
Biography/Wiki
Manika Batra (born 15 June 1995) is an Indian from Narayana Vihar, New Delhi. He liked playing table tennis at the age of five and received professional training in the game from coach Sandeep Gupta during his school days. At the age of 8, he won the under-8 state-level tournament.
Manika Batra with Sachin Tendulkar and coach Sandeep Gupta
Physical Appearance
Manika Batra height is 34-28-34, height is 6′ and weight is 65 kg. His flexible body helps him make different movements to handle all types of shots and his good strength combined with intelligence takes the ball to different angles as per the conditions and requirements.
Manika Batra
Family, Caste and Lovers
He belongs to an ordinary Hindu family. His father Girish Batra supported him a lot in adopting table tennis as a career and appreciates his every match. He was brought up in a table tennis environment where people loved him a lot as his elder brother Sahil and elder sister Aanchal both play the game.
Manika Batra with her elder brother Sahil
Manika Batra with her elder sister Aanchal
Manika Batra with her family
Manika is still single and focuses only on her career.
Manika Batra
livelihood
Manika completed her secondary education from Hans Raj Model School, New Delhi and then studied at Jesus and Mary College in the same city. But he left college in the first year of graduation to pursue a career in table tennis.
In 2008, at the age of only 13, he represented India in an international level tournament.
Manika Batra
In 2011, she won a silver medal in the Chile Open under-21 category. Manika along with Mouma Das and Ankita Das won a silver medal in both the women’s team event and women’s doubles event at the 2015 Commonwealth Table Tennis Championships and then won a bronze medal in the women’s singles event for the same championship in the same year.
Manika Batra with Mouma Das
At the 2016 South Asian Games, she won 3 gold medals, first in the women’s doubles event with Pooja Sahasrabuddhe, then in the mixed doubles event with Anthony Amalraj and finally in the women’s team event with Mouma Das and Shamini Kumaresan.
Manika Batra and Anthony Amalraj
At the 2018 Commonwealth Games, Manika, along with other Indian women’s team members, again earned a gold medal for India.
Manika Batra with other team members
On 19 November 2022, she created history by becoming the first Indian female paddler to win a medal at the ITTF-ATTU Asian Cup tournament, where she defeated world number six and three-time Asian champion Hina Hayata 4–2 to win the bronze medal. ,
award
In 2018, he won the prestigious Arjuna Award.
Manika Batra – Arjuna Award
fact
- Due to her beauty, good health and tall body, Manika received modeling offers from many reputed companies, but she rejected all of them to pursue a career in her favorite sport.
- On her 22nd birthday, she achieved the 58th rank among all female table tennis players in the world.
Manika Batra
- Her favorite actress is Alia Bhatt and she idolizes sportspersons Sachin Tendulkar, Mouma Das, Neha Agarwal and Saina Nehwal.
- Manika likes dancing and doing nail art is her hobby.
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