Indian Table Tennis team scripted history after the Women’s team won the first ever gold medal at the Commonwealth Games with a 3-1 victory over Singapore in the final. The team of Manika Batra, Mouma Das, Madhurika Patkar, Pooja Sahashrabudhe and Sutirtha Mukherjee gave India much joy to celebrate.
India’s star player, Manika Batra, recorded a four-game 11-8, 8-11, 7-11, 11-9, 11-7 victory over World No. 4 Tianwei Feng to hand India 1-0 lead. But Madhurika Patkar lost to Mengyu Yu 11-13, 2-11, 6-11. The scores were level at 2-2.
The doubles pair of Mouma Das and Madhurika Patkar brought back India to lead defeating Yihan Zhou and Mengyu Yu 11-7, 11-6, 8-11, 11-7. Manika came out all guns blazingrocking in 
her second match to defeat Yihan Zhou in straight games 11-7, 11-4,11-7 to clinch the seventh gold for India and that took the country’s total tally to 12 in the Commonwealth Games 2018.
This is a special medal for India as they came underdogs and no one expected them to win a gold. But they took everyone by surprise by winning against Singapore who remained champion since the year of its introduction in Delhi 010.
