
Indian women's table tennis team outplayed four-time defending champions Singapore 3-1 to clinch the gold medal at the 21st Commonwealth Games on Sunday.
India has become the only second country to win gold in the table tennis event in the history of Commonwealth Games. India has bagged seven gold medal in total so far, including three today.
World No. 58 Manika Batra first scored the biggest of her career by humbling world number four and multiple Olympic medallist Feng Tianwei 3-2 before brushing aside 100th-ranked Yihan Zhou 3-0 to engineer a sensational win over the mighty Singapore side.
While Batra was the architect of India's historic win, the experienced pairing of Madhurika Patkar and Mouma Das played the supporting role to perfection by winning the crucial doubles tie 3-1 (11-7 11-6 8-11 11-7) against Zhou and Mengyu Yu for a 2-1 lead in the final.
After Batra stunned Feng 3-2 (11-8 8-11 7-11 11-9 11-7) in the opening singles, Mengyu had equalised for Singapore with a straight game win over Patkar.
Batra then proved to be too good for Yihan, who failed to read her deceptive strokes. The Singaporean put a backhand long as the Indian completed a 3-0 (11-7 11-4 11-7), leading to wild celebrations.