Day 2 of the Women’s Singles Round of 64 at the WTT Europe Smash 2025 in Malmö, Sweden brought fireworks on court. Sreeja Akula defeated Manika Batra while top seeds including Sun Yingsha, Chen Meng, and Mima Ito advanced smoothly. Europe’s hopes were kept alive by Bernadette Szőcs and Sofia Polcanova.

In the latest edition of WTT world Rankings, some of the top Indian players have dropped out of top 100 WTT rankings. Manika Batra has dropped just one ranking point and she is WR #36 as of now. Harmeet Desai ranking has increased to WR #62 from #63 from last week.

Manika Batra’s journey in WTT Contender Lima 2023 comes to end against the Japanese Women Miu Hirano. WTT Contender Lima 2023 is being held in beautiful city of Peru with a prize money of 75000$.

The Bengaluru Smashers take on the U Mumba TT in the second battle of IndianOil UTT Season 4️⃣

Ultimate Table Tennis (UTT) is coming back with a bang, the Ultimate Table Tennis is a professional table tennis league in India. It features teams composed of both Indian and international players. The event will start and complete from July 13, 2023 to July 30, 2023. The current season will feature top Indian players such as Sharath Kamal, Sathiyan, Manika, Harmeet Desai, Manav Thakkar and top foreign players such as Quadri Aruna, Kirill Gerassimenko, Omar Assar, Lily Zhang, Suthasini Sawettabut, Benedikt Duda etc. See full list below.

In the WTT Star Contender Ljubljana 2023, Romanian Table Tennis star Bernadette Szőcs has reached the quarter-finals by defeating India’s Manika Batra in 5 set showdown. This was a spectacular match in which both players were tested to the limit.

ITTF World Table Tennis Championship are scheduled to happen in May 2023 in Durban, South Africa. The event will take place between 20th May 2023 to 28th May 2023. WTTC is one of the premium events in table tennis and certainly everyone would be looking to get their hands on the trophy. For Indian table tennis fans, the great news is qualification of all top players in the tournament such as Manika Batra, Sathiyan Gnanasekaran, Sharath Kamal Achanta, Sreeja Akula.

Manika Batra recently associated with Adidas, is currently ranked 49th in the latest World table tennis(WTT) rankings.