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Indian desk tennis star Manika Batra on Tuesday gained three locations to achieve a career-high 35 within the ITTF world rankings. The 27-year-old had produced a particular efficiency to win India’s first ever medal on the Asian Cup in November. She had shocked world quantity 5 Hina Hayata of Japan and world quantity seven Chen Xingtong of China on option to securing a historic bronze in Bangkok.
That effort fetched her 175 factors within the rankings, contributing to her rise. She had additionally reached the semifinals of two WTT Contender occasions in Hungary and Slovenia.
“The Asian Cup performance was surely among my best alongside the run at the 2018 Commonwealth Games. I enjoyed my game and was very confident,” Manika informed PTI.
The Asian Cup medal got here after she returned residence empty handed from the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. Four years earlier in Gold Coast, she had pocketed 4 medals, together with two gold in an unprecedented run.
She can be in motion later this week on the Asian qualification occasion in Doha for the World Championships. She may also be in Doha for the WTT Contender later this month earlier than that includes within the WTT Star Contender in Goa subsequent month.
In the lads’s rankings, G Sathiyan remained in thirty ninth place whereas veteran Sharath Kamal slipped three spots to be forty seventh.
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