CWG: Manika, Mouma Bag Maiden Silver In Doubles Table Tennis

India's sportswomen are putting up an incredible fight at every event in the ongoing Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast. High on confidence after guiding the Indian women's team to a historic gold, paddlers Manika Batra and Mouma Das claimed the women’s doubles silver in table tennis after losing their final 0-3 to Singapore’s Feng Tianwei and Yu Mengyu.

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Manika Batra & @MoumaDasTT have made the entire nation proud as they bag a silver medal ?in the Women's Doubles event at @GC2018. #GoForGlory pic.twitter.com/FAnhDxOzJL

— Table Tennis India (@TableTennisInd) April 13, 2018

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With this win, India won their first ever silver medal in women's doubles table tennis competition

The Indians stormed into the table tennis final at the 21st Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast on Friday.

Congratulations #ManikaBatra & #MoumaDas for winning a #SilverMedal for the country in women's doubles #GC2018TableTennis event.

So proud of you both!#CommmonwealthGames2018 #CWG2018 pic.twitter.com/IT0cPTmaX4

— SheThePeople (@SheThePeopleTV) April 13, 2018

Manika and Mouma yet again proved their superiority on the table, but failed to match up to the Singaporeans who won with 5-11, 4-11, 5-11, thrashing the Indian duo in straight games.

It's silver for Mouma Das and Manika Batra in the table-tennis women's doubles

https://t.co/hvXWTWzgYn #GC2018 #GC2018TableTennis pic.twitter.com/rhfNBxvZRJ

— ESPN India (@ESPNIndia) April 13, 2018

They fought hard to clinch their maiden silver against the defending champions, a first ever for India in the Commonwealth Games.

34 year old @MoumaDasTT won India's first medal at the #CommonwealthGames way back in 2010 where she won bronze with Poulomi Ghatak. Eight years on, she has only aged in terms of bettering herself enough to win bronze with 22 year old Manika Batra. Kudos to the champ!#GC2018 pic.twitter.com/Cwb2MdV8XJ

— The Bridge (@TheBridge_IN) April 13, 2018

Currently ranked no. 58 in the world, Manika has earlier guided the Indian women’s team win its first table tennis gold medal by trouncing world number 4 and Olympic medallist Feng Tianwei. She then defeated Yihan Zhou in four games to confirm the gold medal for India.

CWG 2018 final was the best thus far since India’s best showing in women’s doubles back in 2010 when Das and Poloumi Ghatak had secured bronze

With this victory, Manika has now became a famous name at the podium, having reached quarterfinals in the 2014 Commonwealth Games. A year later, she helped India bag a team silver and women’s doubles silver in the Commonwealth Table Tennis Championship. She qualified for the 2016 Rio Olympics by winning the South Asia Group qualification tournament.

#CG18: #India's Manika Batra and Mourna Das win silver🥈in women's doubles Table Tennis 🏓 #CommonwealthGames2018 #GWG2018 pic.twitter.com/xPvo2TTOBM

— APN NEWS (@apnnewsindia) April 13, 2018

Indian women's doubles pair of #ManikaBatra and #MoumaDas settle for silver medal in table tennis event at #CWG2018 #GC2018 pic.twitter.com/xTYYMe3OVz

— Doordarshan News (@DDNewsLive) April 13, 2018

Our girls won a silver for the country in women's doubles #GC2018TableTennis event.
Congratulations #ManikaBatra & #MoumaDas for a fabulous performance! 🎉🎉
India is very proud of you.😇👍#GC2018#RangDeTiranaga 🇮🇳@ioaindia @PIB_India @ddsportschannel @Ra_THORe @YASMinistry pic.twitter.com/vdIXBalt96

— Dept of Sports MYAS (@IndiaSports) April 13, 2018

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