# Sports

Manika Batra achieves career-best 35th ITTF ranking

She not just became the first Female Tennis player to get a podium finish at a continental competition but also the second player in the history of Indian Table Tennis to win a medal.

SNS | New Delhi | January 4, 2023 9:40 pm

Manika Batra achieves career-best 35th ITTF ranking

Star Indian Table Tennis player Manika Batra has climbed 3 spots to reach her career best 35^th ranking. This comes after the updated rankings were released by the International Table Tennis Federation on Wednesday.

The star Indian Paddler Manika Batra gave a splendid performance in the Asia cup the previous year in November.

Batra won a bronze medal for India in the Asia Cup. She faced World Number 6 Hina Hayata of Japan and World No. 7 Chen Xingtong of China and brought glory back home.

She not just became the first Female Tennis player to get a podium finish at a continental competition but also the second player in the history of Indian Table Tennis to win a medal.

Previously Chetan Baboor was the only Indian Table Tennis play to have claimed a bronze medal in the year 2000 and also a silver in 1997.

The new ranking list is topped by Chinese Paddler SUN Yingsha and also the top 4 players including Yingsha are from China.