Manika’s WTT Champions campaign ends

New Delhi: Star paddler Manika Batra crashed out of the WTT Champions after a quarter-final straight game defeat

against China’s Qian Tianyi in Montpellier,

France.

The Indian, a world No. 30, went down to Tianyi 8-11, 8-11, 10-12 in just 25 minutes on Saturday night. Batra, a multiple Commonwealth Games medallist, fought well in all three games, but her Chinese opponent played the crunch points better to emerge the winner.