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World Championships medal, top-15 place on Manika new year…

New Delhi: A year after she became the first Indian paddler to reach Round of 16 at the Olympics, outplayed a former world champion and world No.2 on her way to her maiden quarter-finals at Saudi Smash, and became the first Indian table tennis player to make it all the way to the last eight at a WTT Champions competition, Manika Batra is very modest in her assessment.  "It’s been a pretty even year," she says. "I have won some, lost some. ‘I