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Indian Cricketers Shower Praise On Table Tennis Star Manika Batra

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India's Manika Batra competes against Ukraine's Margaryta Pesotska during her women's singles round 2 table tennis match at the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo on July 25, 2021. (Photo by Anne-Christine POUJOULAT / AFP) (Photo by ANNE-CHRISTINE POUJOULAT/AFP via Getty Images)

The Indian contingent made a brilliant start to the Tokyo Olympics 2021 as Mirabai Chanu won the silver medal in 49kgs weightlifting. On the second day, another Indian player displayed outstanding performance and impressed everyone.

Table-tennis star Manika Batra defeated 20th seed Margaryta Pesotska of Ukraine to storm into the women’s singles third round. She did look nervous at the start but soon regained composure. Manika lost the first two games 4-11 and 4-11 but then changed her tactics to make a fantastic comeback in the match. She defeated Pesotska 4-3 (7-11, 11-7, 11-4, 11-5, 9-11, 10-12, 6-11) and progressed to round third, inching close to a medal.

Manika plays against Austria’s Sofia Polcanova on Monday for a place in the round of 16.

While social media was fascinated by Manika Batra’s comeback, the cricketing fraternity too wasn’t behind in showering praise for her. The likes of Yusuf Pathan, Harbhajan Singh, Sachin Tendulkar congratulated her on the victory.

Former India batsman Virender Sehwag praised Batra and wrote, “That was an outstanding comeback by Manika Batra to win that. Bahut bahut badhiya. Just one step away from a medal #Tokyo2020.”

Cricketing Legend Sachin Tendulkar also posted a congratulatory message for Manika. He wrote, “What a fantastic comeback Manika! Watched every single point.. the first couple of games were dominated by Margaryta, who kept the rallies short & played her backhand well. Slowly but surely Manika came back & started controlling the pace of the game.”

“She moved from Plan A to Plan B very smartly & got her opponent to play more forehands & the moment the rallies got longer, the Ukrainian was playing to her plan. Manika beat her with superb game planning. Her situational awareness was just tremendous,” he added.

Here are the other congratulatory tweets for Indian Table Tennis star Manika Batra:


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