Ace Indian paddler Manika Batra has obtained her career-very best position and entered the leading 25 in the most current up to date ITTF rankings on Tuesday.
Manika jumped 15 spots from planet variety 39 to develop into world variety 24. She also reclaimed her India number a single place from Sreeja Akula.
The advancement in the ranking arrived after Manika’s reliable exhibit at the Saudi Smash 2024.
Manika defeated various greater-ranked gamers in the event. She stunned environment variety 2 Wang Manyu in the spherical of 32.
In the spherical of 16, Manika defeated entire world quantity 14 Nina Mittelham of Germany and recorded her 1st get against her.
Coming up towards planet number 5 Hina Hayata of Japan in the quarterfinal, Manika lost 1-3 and bowed out of the match.
Having said that, the efficiency was ample for Manika to protected India’s amount-one placement and reach her career-very best rating yet.
In women’s singles, Sreeja Akula dropped 3 spots to be earth quantity 41.
Achanta Sharath Kamal dropped three locations to world quantity 40 in the men’s singles ranking. Manav Thakkar and Harmeet Desai are positioned at environment variety 62 and 63 respectively.
In women’s doubles, Sutirtha Mukherjee and Ayhika Mukherjee moved 1 position up to planet quantity 13.