Sreeja Akula has overtaken Manika Batra in the most up-to-date entire world rankings to develop into India’s amount a person paddler in the women’s singles group for the first time at any time on Tuesday.
Sreeja accomplished a new profession-significant planet position of 38 right after jumping up one particular position though Manika who was major the Indian ranks for the previous six a long time slipped two spots to be ranked 39th in the entire world.
Sreeja had a great 12 months in 2024 at the Globe Table Tennis event, which incorporated two titles at feeder tournaments, WTT Feeder Corpus Christi and WTT Feeder Beirut II 2024. In the meantime, Manika whose principal focus was on blended doubles for the past couple of months hadn’t played feeder tournaments and as a result shed fairly a large amount of position points.
Both of those of the Indian players are now concentrating on the second smash match of the year, the Saudi Smash from 1-11 May possibly in Saudi Arabia. The event will offer you a great deal of rating details consequently equally of them will try out to make comprehensive use of this leading-tier tournament.
Sreeja Akula turns into India no. 1⃣ in women’s singles for the initially time! 👏🏓
The youngster is at present ranked 38 in accordance to the ITTF rankings, just one higher than Manika Batra whom she displaces as the best in the region.#TableTennis pic.twitter.com/H8G5GCtN9i
— The Bridge (@the_bridge_in) April 23, 2024
In men’s singles, Sharath is still primary the Indian charts unanimously at 37th place when Sathiyan Gnanasekaran (60) all over again surpassed Manav Thakkar (61) as India’s no.2, closely followed by Harmeet Desai (64).
The fight for two singles places at the Paris Olympics is acquiring tighter between the a few Indians in the men’s singles group with just a change of four positions involving them, whereas Sreeja and Manika are at the forefront in securing their destinations in the workforce for singles matches.