Manika started playing Table Tennis when she was just 5 years old.Initially, she started getting training in Table Tennis from her siblings as her sister and brother used to play table tennis.After that, she got professional training under ‘Sandeep Gupta’ who used to run his academy at ‘Hans Raj Model School’, New Delhi.Her father suffers from some mental health issues. Despite that, he supports her and watch her every match on television.At the age of 8, for the first time, she won the Under-8 state-level tournament.Manika has first represented ‘India’ in 2008 when she was only 13 years old.At the age of 16, she applied for a scholarship to receive training from Peter Karlsson Academy in Sweden, Europe.She dropped out of college when she was in the first year of graduation for pursuing her career in Table Tennis.As of 2017, she has represented ‘India’ multiple times, that is, in 2014 Commonwealth Games, 2014 Asian Games, 2015 Commonwealth Table Tennis Championships, 2016 South Asian Games, and 2016 Summer Olympics.During her teenage days, Manika got lots of modelling offers but she rejected to make her career in Table Tennis.