Exclusive – ‘I want to win a medal this time’: Manika Batra on her Paris Olympics aspirations | – Times of India
NEW DELHI: Indian table tennis teams, both men’s and women’s, recently scripted history by booking their tickets to this year’s Paris Olympics. It will be the first time India will compete in the table tennis team events at the Olympics. Earlier, both the Indian teams failed to secure direct qualifications to the Paris Games, after losing their respective pre-quarterfinals matches at the World Table Tennis Championships in Busan, South Korea. The prestigious tournament offered Olympic quotas to the quarter-finalists.It could have been ‘so close, yet so far away’ for the Indian teams, but they finally made the cut through their world rankings. The Indian women’s team qualified through their latest rankings of 13, while the men’s team makes it as 15th ranked team. After the historic quali...