Ace Indian desk tennis participant Manika Batra has misplaced her baggage containing sports activities tools whereas returning house from a match in Peru, on a KLM Airways flight, and he or she has sought assist from the federal government to recuperate it.
Looking for assist of Civil Aviation Minister Jyotiraditya Scindia, World No 35 Batra stated she was travelling in enterprise class within the Dutch flag service and by no means anticipated to lose baggage with a precedence tag.
“Unbelievable disappointment with @KLM.! Precedence-tagged baggage misplaced on a enterprise class flight, together with my important sports activities package for an upcoming match,” Batra tweeted by her official deal with. “Workers on the airport had no solutions or any options & that they had no concept the place my bag is. @JM_Scindia sir pls assist.”
Batra was coming again to India (August 6-7 flight) after enjoying in a WTT Contender match in Lima through Amsterdam.
Within the match, the 28-year-old Batra reached the spherical of 32 earlier than shedding to Japan’s World No 14 Miu Hirano 11-3, 11-7, 10-12, 6-11, 9/11. She is one in every of India’s brightest medal hopes within the upcoming Asian Video games in Hangzhou, China.
Batra and the skilled G. Sathiyan are ranked seventh in blended doubles and the pair is predicted to steer India’s cost within the September 23 to October 8 Asian Video games.