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Live Blog, CWG, Day 10

NEW DELHI: A day after she won silver in the women's doubles event, top-ranked Indian female paddler Manika Batra went one up on her performance and clinched a gold medal in the women's singles Table Tennis final. She dished out a clinical performance to win the contest 4-0 against Singapore 's Mengyu Yu and become the first Indian woman to win gold in the women's singles event at the Commonwealth Games.This is Batra's third medal of the tournament having earlier won a gold medal in women's team event as well. Not once was Batra's dominance challenged as the Indian won it rather easy: 11-7, 11-6, 11-2 and 11-7. Earlier in the day, she had beaten another Singaporean Tianwei Feng.Batra, a Times of India Sports Awards (TOISA) winner this year, in the People's Choice category - had combined with Mouma Das to finish second best to Singapore's Feng and Mengyu Yu just a day before.Batra's first step towards serious table tennis was in 2011, where she won a silver medal in the under-21 category of the Chile Open. She went on to represent India at the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games but had to settle for a quarterfinal finish. Batra stormed back from the loss and won three medals in the 2015 Commonwealth Table Tennis Championships. There, she claimed silver in the women's team event (with Ankita Das and Mouma Das) as well as the women's doubles event (with Ankita Das) and bronze in the women's singles event.Batra qualified for the women's singles event of the 2016 Olympics by winning the South Asia group of the qualification tournament in April 2016. But her appearance at Rio was short-lived, as she endured a first-round loss to Katarzyna Grzybowska of Poland the women's individual event.