SSC CGL 2024 Tier-I · 12 September 2024, Shift 2 · General Awareness · Question 9 of 100

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Who among the following players is related to table tennis?

(a)Pankaj Advani
(b)Manika Batra
(c)K Srikanth
(d)Manish Narwal

Answer

Why

Correct — B. Manika Batra is India's best-known table tennis player. At the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast she won the women's singles and was part of the gold-winning women's team.

She received the Khel Ratna, India's highest sporting honour, in 2020 and has represented India at the Olympics. The other three names belong to three different sports, so option (b) is the table tennis player.

Why the others are wrong

(a)
Pankaj Advani — Pankaj Advani is a cue sportsman, a multiple world champion in billiards and snooker.
(c)
K Srikanth — K Srikanth is the badminton player Kidambi Srikanth, a former world number one in men's singles. The racket is a badminton racket, not a table tennis bat.
(d)
Manish Narwal — Manish Narwal is a para shooter and a Paralympic gold medallist in pistol, which places him in shooting.

Concept

These are name-to-sport items, and the options are drawn from different disciplines so that one certain identification settles the question.

Manika Batra brought Indian table tennis into general awareness with her run at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, where she took the women's singles title and a team gold.

Around her stand a cue sportsman, a badminton player and a para shooter — each a documented name, which is why guessing from the sound of a name fails here.

Sports recall rewards breadth over depth. You need the discipline attached to a name, not the medal tally.

Key facts

Manika Batra plays table tennis and won the women's singles gold at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast.
She received the Khel Ratna, India's highest sporting honour, in 2020, when the award was still named for Rajiv Gandhi.
Pankaj Advani plays billiards and snooker, K Srikanth plays badminton, and Manish Narwal is a para shooter.

Study next

Indian medallists at the 2018 Commonwealth Games arranged by sportKhel Ratna and Arjuna award recipients of recent yearsIndian medallists at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics and their events

Common traps

Confusing table tennis with lawn tennis while scanning names quickly.
Reading K Srikanth as a cricket or tennis name, when Kidambi Srikanth is a badminton player.

The usual format is a fill-in: one name and four sports, or four names and one sport. Compare 19 Sep 2024, 16:00, GA Q.15 (Bhakti Pradeep Kulkarni, keyed chess), 24 Sep 2024, 12:30, GA Q.16 (Rudrankksh Patil, keyed shooting) and 26 Sep 2024, 09:00, GA Q.3 (Nirupama Sanjeev, keyed tennis).

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