Manika Batra wins the Asian Cup Table Tennis competition’s first medal for an Indian woman

Manika Batra, an Indian player of table tennis, won the bronze medal at the present ITTF-ATTU Asian Cup competition on Saturday at the Huamark Indoor Stadium in Bangkok, Thailand, becoming the first female Indian paddler to take home a medal at the competition. She defeated Hina Hayata, the sixth-ranked player in the world and a three-time Asian champion, by a score of 4-2 to win the bronze.