Manika Batra Wiki, Age, Boyfriend, Family, Biography & More

Manika Batra

Manika Batra

As of 2017, Manika Batra is the top-ranked female table tennis player in India and is on 58th rank in the whole world. Check out Manika Batra Wiki, Height, Weight, Age, Family, Biography & More.

Biography/Wiki

Manika Batra (born on 15 June 1995) is an Indian from Naraina Vihar in New Delhi. She liked to play table tennis at the age of five and during her school days, she got professional training of the game by the coach Sandeep Gupta. At the age of 8, she won the under-8-state-level-tournament.

Manika Batra With Sachin Tendulkar and Coach Sandeep Gupta

Manika Batra With Sachin Tendulkar and Coach Sandeep Gupta

Physical Appearance

Manika Batra has a fit physique of 34-28-34 with 6′ height and 65-kilogram weight. Her flexible body helps her to take different movements to handle all types of shots and her good strength with intelligence moves a ball at different angles as per the situations and requirements.

Manika Batra

Manika Batra

Family, Caste & Boyfriend

She belongs to a simple Hindu family. Her father Girish Batra supported her a lot to take table tennis as a career and appreciates her every match. She brought up in an environment of table tennis loved people as her elder brother Sahil and elder sister Anchal both play this game.

Manika Batra With Her Elder Brother Sahil

Manika Batra With Her Elder Brother Sahil

Manika Batra With Her Elder Sister Anchal

Manika Batra With Her Elder Sister Anchal

Manika Batra With Her Family

Manika Batra With Her Family

Manika is still single and focuses on her career only.

Manika Batra

Manika Batra

Career

Manika completed her secondary education from the Hans Raj Model School, New Delhi, and then studied in the Jesus and Mary College in the same city. But she dropped out from college in the first year of graduation to pursue her career in the table tennis.

In 2008, at the age of 13 only, she represented India on an International level tournament.

Manika Batra

Manika Batra

In 2011, she won a silver medal in the Chile Open Under-21 category. Manika, accompanying Mouma Das and Ankita Das won the silver medal both in women’s team event and women’s doubles event in 2015 Commonwealth Table Tennis Championship and then won the bronze in women’s singles events in the same year for the same championship.

Manika Batra With Mouma Das

Manika Batra With Mouma Das

In 2016 South Asian Games, she conquered 3 gold medals, first along with Pooja Sahasrabudhe in women’s doubles event, then conjointly Anthony Amalraj in the mixed doubles event and finally together with Mouma Das and Shamini Kumaresan in women’s team event.

Manika Batra And Anthony Amalraj

Manika Batra And Anthony Amalraj

In 2018 Commonwealth Games, Manika, in conjunction with other women team members of India, again earned a gold medal for India.

Manika Batra With Other Team Members

Manika Batra With Other Team Members

On 19 November 2022, she created history after she became the first Indian woman paddler to clinch a medal at the ITTF-ATTU Asian Cup tournament, where she won bronze after defeating World number six and three-time Asian champion Hina Hayata by 4-2. [1]NDTV

Awards

In 2018, she won the prestigious Arjuna Award.

Manika Batra - Arjuna Award

Manika Batra – Arjuna Award

Facts

  • Due to her beauty, good health and tall body, Manika got several modelling offers from reputed companies, but she rejected all of them to build her career in her beloved game.
  • On her 22nd birthday, she attained 58th rank among all the women table tennis players of the world.

    Manika Batra

    Manika Batra 

  • Her favourite actress is Alia Bhatt and she idolizes the players Sachin Tendulkar, Mouma Das, Neha Aggarwal, and Saina Nehwal.
  • Manika likes dancing and her hobby is doing nail art.

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