Ankita Raina is an Indian tennis player, who is currently a number one in women’s singles. She made her first professional appearance in the year 2009 on mall ITF tournament which held at Mumbai. Moreover, she won the Bronze medal in the 2018 Asian Games in Singles event. Check out below for Ankita Raina (Tennis Player) Wiki, Biography, Age, Family, Images and more.
Ankita Raina Details
Ankita Raina was born on 11 January 1993, in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. Ankita Raina father name is Ravinder Kishen Raina and mother name will be updated soon. Her schooling details will be updated soon and she did her graduation in Brihan Maharashtra College of Commerce, Pune. She started playing tennis at the age of four coached by her mother and she prefers to play in hard and grass courts. She was inspired by seeing the games of Rafael Nadal, Serena Williams, Sania Mirza and Roger Federer. In the year 2007, she shifted to PYC Hindu Gymkhana sports facility at Pune, where she started working with Hemant Bendrey and Ketan Dhumal. An interview that conducted by Sportskeeda in May 2013, she announced that her goal is to reach the top 300 in singles at the end of the 2013 season.
In her junior career, she made her debut professional appearance at a small ITF tournament held at Mumbai in 2009. In the year 2010, she used to participate in ITF tournaments with limited success. Then in the year 2011, she saw her advance in the ITF Circuit finals in doubles, and she won a game with Aishwarya Agrawal. Later in 2012, she won her first professional singles title in New Delhi with that, she won three more in doubles. On May 2018, she reached her ranking of 181 and become as a fourth in the Indian nation by cracking to top-200 ladies’ singles rankings just by following Nirupama Sanjeev, Sania Mirza and Shikha Uberoi. Then in the 2018 Asian Games which held at Jakarta, Indonesia she won the bronze medal in Singles event. She is currently supported by Sports Authority of Gujarat and she is employed with ONGC.
Ankita Raina Biography
Name | Ankita Raina |
Real Name | Ankita Raina |
Nickname | Ankita |
Profession | Indian Tennis player |
Date of Birth | 11 January 1993 |
Age | 25 (as of August 2018) |
Zodiac sign | Capricorn |
Father Name | Ravinder Kishen Raina |
Mother Name | Yet to be updated |
Religion | Hindu |
Educational Qualification | Graduate |
School | Yet to be updated |
College | Brihan Maharashtra College of Commerce, Pune |
Hobbies | Reading Books, Playing tennis |
Hometown | Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India |
Nationality | Indian |
Married | No |
Husband Name | NA |
Current City | Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India |
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Ankita Raina Awards
Runner-up | 24 January 2011 | $10,000 | Kolkata, India | Poojashree Venkatesha | Nicole Clerico Dalila Jakupovič |
Runner-up | 4 April 2011 | $10,000 | Lucknow, India | Aishwarya Agrawal | Anja Prislan Kyra Shroff |
Winner | 9 May 2011 | $10,000 | New Delhi, India | Aishwarya Agrawal | Fatma Al-Nabhani Rushmi Chakravarthi |
Winner | 7 May 2012 | $10,000 | New Delhi, India | Rushmi Chakravarthi | Liu Yuxuan Zhao Qianqian |
Winner | 21 May 2012 | $10,000 | New Delhi, India | Rushmi Chakravarthi | Sri Peddy Reddy Prarthana Thombare |
Winner | 18 June 2012 | $10,000 | New Delhi, India | Aishwarya Agrawal | Ester Masuri Naomi Totka |
Runner-up | 15 April 2013 | $10,000 | Chennai, India | Rushmi Chakravarthi | Natasha Palha Prarthana Thombare |
Runner-up | 15 July 2013 | $10,000 | New Delhi, India | Shweta Rana | Sharmada Balu Sowjanya Bavisetti |
Winner | 6 January 2014 | $10,000 | Aurangabad, India | Prarthana Thombare | Shweta Rana Rishika Sunkara |
Runner-up | 25 May 2014 | $25,000 | Tianjin, China | Fatma Al-Nabhani | Liu Chang Ran Tian |
Winner | 10 November 2014 | $25,000 | Mumbai, India</td | Lu Jiajing | Nicha Lertpitaksinchai Peangtarn Plipuech |
Winner | 12 December 2014 | $15,000 | Lucknow, India | Emily Webley-Smith | Rushmi Chakravarthi Nidhi Chilumula |
Runner-up | 10 August 2015 | $25,000 | Westende, Belgium | Alyona Sotnikova | Indy de Vroome Lesley Kerkhove |
Runner-up | 18 June 2016 | $25,000 | Fergana, Uzbekistan | Prerna Bhambri | Polina Monova Yana Sizikova |
Winner | 17 September 2016 | $50,000 | Zhuhai, China | Emily Webley-Smith | Guo Hanyu Jiang Xinyu |
Winner | 23 April 2017 | $25,000 | Pula, Italy | Eva Wacanno | Irene Burillo Escorihuela Yvonne Cavallé Reimers |
Winner | 12 May 2017 | $25,000 | Hua Hin, Thailand | Emily Webley-Smith | Nudnida Luangnam Zhang Yukun |
Winner | 13 August 2017 | $25,000 | Koksijde, Belgium | Bibiane Schoofs | Marie Benoît Magali Kempen |
Runner-up | 20 August 2017 | $25,000 | Leipzig, Germany | Tereza Mrdeža | Valentyna Ivakhnenko Lidziya Marozava |
Winner | 27 August 2017 | $60,000 | Artvin, Turkey | Gabriela Cé | Elitsa Kostova Yana Sizikova |
Winner | 12 May 2018 | $60,000 | Lu’an, China | Harriet Dart | Liu Fangzhou Xun Fangying |
Fed Cup participation
Singles
Edition | Date | Location | Against | Opponent | W/L |
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2014 Fed Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group II |
5 February 2014 | Astana, Kazakhstan | Pakistan | Sara Mansoor | W |
6 February 2014 | New Zealand | Marina Erakovic | L | ||
7 February 2014 | Hong Kong | Zhang Ling | L |
Doubles
Edition | Date | Location | Against | Partner | Opponents | W/L |
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2013 Fed Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group I |
6 February 2013 | Astana, Kazakhstan | Kazakhstan | Rutuja Bhosale | Sesil Karatantcheva Galina Voskoboeva |
L |
8 February 2013 | Thailand | Rishika Sunkara | Noppawan Lertcheewakarn Varatchaya Wongteanchai |
L | ||
2014 Fed Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group II |
7 February 2014 | Hong Kong | Rishika Sunkara | Ng Kwan-yau Wu Ho-ching |
W |
Asian Games
Singles
Medal | Date | Tournament | Location | Opponent |
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Bronze | August 2018 | 2018 Asian Games | Jakarta, Indonesia | Zhang Shuai |