{"id":4447,"date":"2024-05-14T14:57:27","date_gmt":"2024-05-14T14:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsbuddy.co.in\/?p=4447"},"modified":"2024-05-14T14:57:28","modified_gmt":"2024-05-14T14:57:28","slug":"manika-reaches-career-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-gdnews.com\/?p=4447","title":{"rendered":"Manika reaches career-high"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>New Delhi,(Team Newsbuddy):<\/em><\/strong> Manika Batra touched a new height, jumping 15 places to be World No. 24, according to the latest ITTF Rankings updated today. Thus, Manika became the first woman paddler in the country to reach a new peak in her career graph, etching her name in the history book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before entering the Saudi Smash last week, Manika was No. 39 and a spot behind Sreeja Akula. But her stellar performance in Jeddah, where she reached the quarterfinals, changed the equation and placed the Delhi woman in an enviable position.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Incidentally, this was precisely the highest-ranking position (No. 24) that G. Sathiyan held for a few months in 2019, to be the top-ranked Indian in the world then.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the records, Manika stunned world No. 2 and Olympic medallist Wang Manyu of China before outshining world No. 14 Nina Mittelham of Germany. Eventually, she lost to world No. 4 Hina Hayata of Japan in the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But A. Sharath Kamal slipped three places while holding on to his status as the highest-ranked Indian at No. 40. Manav Thakkar and Harmeet Desai occupy the 62nd and 63rd positions, respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The women&#8217;s doubles pair of Sutirtha Mukherjee and Ayhika Mukherjee climbed to the 13th spot even as Manav and Manush Shah dropped three places and placed 15th in the men\u2019s doubles category.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In mixed doubles, the duo of Manika and Sathiyan holds steady at the 24th spot, despite slipping&nbsp;one&nbsp;position.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi,(Team Newsbuddy): Manika Batra touched a new height, jumping 15 places to be World&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4445,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-4447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-national","tag-newstoday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-gdnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-gdnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-gdnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-gdnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-gdnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/the-gdnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4448,"href":"https:\/\/the-gdnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4447\/revisions\/4448"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-gdnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/the-gdnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-gdnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/the-gdnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}