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Batra-Gnanasekaran win TT mixed bronze

April 15, 2018 08:53 IST

Manika Batra

IMAGE: Sathiyan Gnanasekaran and Manika Batra compete in the table tennis mixed doubles bronze medal match against Sharath Achanta and Mouma Das and Sharath Achanta on Day 11 of the Commonwealth Games. Photograph: Dean Mouhtaropoulos/Getty Images .

Manika Batra's sensational run at the Commonwealth Games fetched her another medal on Sunday.

Teaming up with Sathiyan Gnanasekaran she bagged the mixed doubles bronze, thereby winning a medal in every event she competed in at the Gold Coast Games.

Batra and Sathiyan defeated the senior duo of Achanta Sharath Kamal and Mouma Das 11-6, 11-2, 11-4.

 

Batra had earlier won a historic women's singles gold and was also a part of the top-finishing women's team.

In women's doubles, she won a silver partnering Mouma Das.

Later, Kamal won the bronze medal in the men's singles.

He beat Samuel Walker of England 11-7, 11-9, 9-11, 11-6, 12-10 for his third medal at the Games.