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Odisha, India In 2011, Batra won the silver medal in the under-21 category of the Chile Open. Batra won three gold medals at the
2016 South Asian Games, winning the women's doubles event (with
Pooja Sahasrabudhe), mixed doubles event (with
Anthony Amalraj) and women's team event (with Mouma Das and
Shamini Kumaresan). Batra was denied a fourth gold medal at the Games by Mouma Das, who defeated her in the final of the women's singles event.
2016 Summer Olympics Batra qualified for the women's singles event of the
2016 Summer Olympics by winning the South Asia group of the
qualification tournament in April 2016. However, her appearance at the 2016 Olympics short-lived, as she lost to
Katarzyna Grzybowska of
Poland in the first round of the
women's individual event. Batra led the
Indian women's team to a gold medal win in the final against four-time gold medalists and defending champions Singapore at the
2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia. The Singapore women's table tennis team had never lost in the Commonwealth Games since the sport was inducted in the program in 2002. Batra defeated world number 4
Feng Tianwei as well as
Zhou Yihan in India's 3–1 win in the final. Batra and
Mouma Das won India's maiden silver medal in the women's doubles category at the
2018 Commonwealth Games losing to defending champions Feng Tianwei and Yu Mengyu of Singapore in the gold medal clash. Batra became the first Indian woman to bag a commonwealth table tennis individual gold medal in CWG 2018 by beating Yu Mengyu of Singapore. She won 4 medals in 4 events she was participating out of which 2 are gold, 1 silver and 1 bronze medal. At the 2019
Commonwealth Table Tennis Championships, Batra was the member of the women's team which win the gold by defeating
Singapore in the final.
2020 Summer Olympics At the
2020 Summer Olympics, Batra reached the third round of the women's singles event, becoming the first Indian paddler to reach the third round at the Olympics in a singles event. Batra won the 2021 WTT Contender Budapest mixed doubles with
Sathiyan Gnanasekaran by outplaying
Hungary's
Dora Madarasz and Nandor Ecseki 3-1. Batra then won wtt contender Lasko 2021 women's doubles with Archana Girish Kamath by beating Diaz Sisters pair of
Melanie Diaz and
Adriana Diaz from
Puerto Rico 11-3, 11-8, 12-10. The Indian duo saved four game points in the third set to seal the match.
2022 Batra participated at the 1st ever
WTT Grand Smash event which was the Singapore Smash 2022. In the singles her run ended in the 1st round after losing to
Zhang Mo. In the mixed doubles she and
Sathiyan Gnanasekaran lost top seeds
Lin Yun-ju and
Cheng I Ching in straight games 3-0. In the women's doubles event she and Archana Girish Kamath lost to Japanese pair of
Hina Hayata and
Mima Itō 3-0 in the Quarter-finals. Batra settled for silver at WTT Contender Doha 2022 with
Sathiyan Gnanasekaran in mixed doubles where they lost against the top-seeded
Chinese Taipei pair of
Lin Yun-ju and
Cheng I-Ching. The Indians lost 4-11, 5-11, 3-11 in straight games. Batra then bagged a bronze at WTT Star Contender Doha 2022 in women's doubles event with Archana Girish Kamath. They lost in the Semi-finals to Li Yu-Jhun and
Cheng I-Ching 8-11, 6-11, 7-11. On 5 April 2022, the pair of Batra and Archana Girish Kamath reached the pair ranking of world no. 4 which is the highest ever ranking by an Indian Table Tennis player in all categories (Men's Singles, Women's Singles, Men's Doubles, Women's Doubles, Mixed Doubles). Manika won historic Bronze medal in
Asian Cup 2022 where she took down Top 10 paddlers -
Chen Xingtong and
Hina Hayata of China and Japan respectively.
2024 In the Round of 32 at Saudi Smash 2024, She defeated former World Champion & WR2
Wang Manyu of China, which is one of the biggest wins in her career. She cruised upto Quarter finals in that event, her best result ever in the Grand Smash events.
2024 Summer Olympics At the
2024 Summer Olympics, Batra reached the Round of 16 of the women's singles event by beating the home favourite
Prithika Pavade, to become the first Indian paddler to reach the Round of 16 at the Olympics in a singles event. However, she lost 1-4 to
Japan's
Miu Hirano in five games. She qualified to Quarterfinals of WTT Champions Montpellier 2024 by beating
Romania's
Bernadette Szőcs and became the first Indian to do so in WTT Champions Events. ==In the media==