Table Tennis Rankings: Sreeja Akula surpasses Manika Batra to become India's No 1 woman player

Sreeja Akula, the Commonwealth Games mixed doubles champion, on Tuesday replaced Manika Batra as India’s top-ranked women’s table-tennis player in the latest ITTF World Rankings that was released. Sreeja rose to a career-high rank of 38 whereas Manika Batra went down a couple of spots to be placed 39th.

Sreeja, 25, has had a good season so far. She won the WTT Feeder Corpus Christi and WTT Feeder Beirut trophies while also reaching the quarter-final of the WTT Star Contender Series in Goa.

Sreeja had won the mixed doubles gold medal at the 2022 Commonwealth Games alongside veteran Sharath Kamal. Yashaswini Ghorpade and Archana Kamath held on to their 99th and 100th spot in the rankings.

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Sharath continues to be the top-ranked male player, occupying the 37 spot in the rankings while G Sathiyan and Manav Thakar have interchanged places to be 60th and 61st respectively. National champion Harmeet Desai’s, who was the top ranked Indian a couple of months a ago, descent continues as he dropped to the 64th spot.

India has already qualified for the team events at the Paris Olympics. Two singles entries in men’s and women’s singles will be decided by the Table Tennis Federation of India by May 16 after considering the world rankings at the time.

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With PTI inputs