India on golden tracks at Commonwealth Games: Table Tennis player Manika Batra bags gold

Gold Coast, April 14: Manika Batra becomes the first ever Indian player to win the table tennis women's singles Gold at the Commonwealth Games. She bagged not only a Gold Medal but huge applause who unfurled the flag of victory.

Manika put up a dominating show against Singapore's Mengyu Yu to sweep the gold medal 4-0 (11-7, 11-6, 11-2, 11-7), adding to her gold from the women's Team event at Gold Coast.

In an official tweet of Youth Affairs and Sports Ministry “ Manika Batra wins a gold 🥇in women's singles table tennis @GC2018. She has been spectacular throughout her performance in #GC2018. feels super proud of you Manika! Keep flying high!”

Manika is only the second player from India after Sharath Kamal to win a singles medal in table tennis at the Commonwealth Games. With this India has bagged 53 till now (23 Gold, 13 Silver, 17 Bronze)

Manika, coming in confidentially from her semi-final win against world No.4 Tianwei Feng from Singapore, did not let Yu settle into the match at all.

Manika had earlier beaten Feng in the women's singles during the women's Team event and she put up another show of absolute belief and resistance against the much higher ranked Singapore on Saturday.

However, it was then that Manika turned up in the best possible fashion and matches Feng stroke-by-stroke to win the sixth set 11-9 and the final set 13-11 to become the first Indian woman to reach the women's singles final.

So far, Manika has 3 medals at CWG 2018 -- the most by an Indian.