The Paris Olympics 2024 has commenced and the Indian Table Tennis players have started their individual campaigns in the men's and women's singles events. Unfortunately, in the men's category, both Achanta Sharath Kamal and Harmeet Desai has crashed out. The hopes only linger on the Women as both of Manika Batra and Sreeja Akula won their first game at the Round of 64 and progressed to the Round of 32. Surprisingly, Maika Batra is set to play an Indian Origin athlete named Prithika Pavade in the Round of 32 clash on July 30 at 12:30 AM IST (Indian Standard Time). It has been a rare occurrence that an Indian athlete runs into an Indian origin athlete from another nation in the Olympics. Fans eager to know everything about Prithika Pavade will get the entire information here.  Manika Batra Gets Off to Winning Start at Paris Olympics 2024, Beats Great Britain’s Anna Hursey To Enter Round of 32 in Women’s Singles Table Tennis Event.

Prithika Pavade Quick Facts:

# Prithika Pavade is French paddler who was originally born in India.

# Prithika's parents originally belongs from Pondicherry.

# Prithika was born in 2004, one year after her parents moved to France.

# The 20-year-old was born and brought up in St. Dennis.

# Prithika originally started as a doubles player but moved to singles with time.

# Prithika's father was also a TT player when he lived in Pondicherry. Prithika started her journey to be paddler in 2010. When she was six years old.

# In 2020, Prithika won the European U-21 title.

# At 16 years age, she became the youngest French athlete to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics.

# Prithika is 18th in World Rankings with 1102 points.

# She is ranked 28th in women's doubles and 43rd in mixed doubles in the ITTF Table Tennis World Rankings.

# Prithika has won in WTT Youth Star Contender Vila Nova de Gaia 2022, French National Championships 2022, WTT Feeder Panagyurishte 2022, WTT Youth Contender Agadir 2022.

# In mixed doubles, Prathika Pavade-Cassin A suffered a defeat to Manika Batra and Sathiyan Gnanasekaran in WTT Contender Tunis in 2021.

# In WTT Contender Antalya in 2023, Pavade and Lebrun defeated Manika Batra and Sathiyan Gnanasekaran in mixed double

Transitioning to senior competition, Prithika has made steady progress with significant achievements. She is yet to face Manika Batra in singles and the match in Paris Olympics 2024 Round of 32 will be the first one. Fans will look forward to their meet and an exciting game which might spark a rivalry for the near future.

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