Ankita Raina Height, Age, Boyfriend, Family, Biography & More 2024

Some Lesser Known Facts About Ankita Raina

• Ankita Raina is knowledgeable Indian tennis participant. In the 2016 South Asian Games, she gained gold medals within the ladies’s singles and combined doubles occasions. In April 2018, she turned the fifth Indian tennis participant who represented India whereas coming into the highest 200 singles rating for the primary time. While enjoying tennis on the ITF Circuit (International Tennis Federation circuit), she gained 11 singles and 18 doubles titles. In 2021, Raina was chosen to signify India within the 2020 Tokyo Olympics that have been earlier postponed as a result of COVID-19 pandemic.
  

  Ankita gained the gold medal in 2016 in singles in South Asian video games

• At the 2018 Asian Games, Ankita Raina gained a bronze medal in ladies’s singles. After profitable this occasion, she turned solely the second Indian lady to signify India and win a WTA-level title in singles after Sania Mirza. In the identical sequence, she gained one WTA (Women’s Tennis Association) title and one WTA 125k title, each in doubles.
  

  Ankita Raina whereas profitable the WTA 125k title in doubles

• In 2007, the Under-14 Asian Tennis Series offered Ankita with an enormous turning level in her profession. Under the rules of the continental match introduced within the 2007 sequence, she performed sure tournaments in India and the remainder of the worldwide tournaments inside Asia.

• After profitable the Under-14 Asian Tennis Series, Ankita obtained chosen among the many high eight tennis gamers in Asia and was invited to play at Melbourne Park, the venue of the Australian Open. In the Australian Open, she performed the tennis finals and defeated a South Korean lady, and as a consequence of this victory, Ankita earned the quantity two place in Asia.

• According to Ankita, after profitable the Australian Open in 2007, nobody accompanied her when she participated in a number of different tournaments held exterior India. Her father accompanied her to Jordan and Syria, her preliminary International tournaments. Thereafter, on the age of 13, Ankita went alone to Sri Lanka, the place she participated in a match. In an interview, Ankita’s mom mentioned,
  

  We thought Sri Lanka will likely be a protected possibility to start out. We have been initially very frightened, her equipment again was enormous and heavy however she managed all of it on her personal.”

• In 2009, Ankita Raina performed her first skilled tennis match at an area ITF match in Mumbai. With the restricted victories, she continued to play the native ITF occasions in 2010.

• In 2011, Ankita gained the US Open championship by defeating her opponent and World No. 4 tennis participant, Samantha Stosur. On profitable this occasion, Anika mentioned in an interview,
  

  I began crying. I had a flashback of all the pieces that I had gone by all these years. On the third match level that I gained, I simply advised myself ‘consider, it’s now or by no means, and seize the chance.”

• In 2011, Ankita gained three ITF circuit finals in doubles seasons with a famend Indian tennis participant, Aishwarya Agrawal. In New Delhi, Ankita gained her first singles in 2012. Around the identical yr, she gained three extra in doubles. Later, for a couple of years, Ankita gave mediocre performances on the ITF Circuit.

• In 2017, within the Mumbai Open, Raina gained two quarterfinal matches of her profession, which proved a breakthrough in her tennis profession. After this win, she attained the 181st world rating in April 2018 on profitable a $25k title. This world rating introduced Ankita into the elite group of Indian ladies tennis gamers together with Nirupama Sanjeev, Sania Mirza, Shikha Uberoi, and Sunitha Rao.

• In August 2018, within the Asian Games in Jakarta, Indonesia, Ankita gained the bronze medal in a singles occasion. At these Asian video games, Ankita Raina and Sania Mirza have been the one gamers who represented India in tennis and gained singles. At the top of this yr, within the 2018 OEC Taipei WTA Challenger, Ankita gained the doubles title with one other Indian tennis participant named Karman Kaur Thandi.
  

  Ankita whereas receiving a 2 lakh rupees cheque after profitable bronze within the 2018 Olympics

• In 2019, Ankita Raina gained the ITF W25 title in Singapore over Arantxa Rus within the finals. However, Ankita misplaced the 2019 Australian Open in the identical yr.

• In 2019, Ankita gained Women’s tennis occasions over Sabine Lisicki, former Wimbledon finalist, on the ITF Surbiton Trophy in London. Around the identical yr, Ankita misplaced the 2019 French Open to younger American tennis participant Coco Gauff. Later this yr, Raina misplaced each the 2019 Wimbledon Championships and the 2019 US Open. In October 2019, Raina, alongside along with her accomplice, Rosalie van der Hoek, reached the finals after coming into the highest 150 doubles rankings in tennis on the 2019 Suzhou Ladies Open.

• In December 2019, Chief Minister of Gujarat, Shri Vijay Rupani Sir and Honourable Sports Minister of Gujarat, Shri Ishwarsinh Patel felicitated the trophies to the athletes of Gujarat together with Ankita Raina on the closing ceremony of Khel Maha Kumbh. Apparently, these gamers have been honoured for his or her excellent performances of their area of sports activities.
  

  Ankita Raina whereas receiving the honour from the Cheif Minister of Gujarat in 2019

• In 2020, on the Australian Open, Ankita’s well being was not effectively as a result of Australian bushfires as a consequence of which she gave a disappointing end in some matches. However, on the finish of 2020, in doubles, together with Bibiane Schoofs, Ankita gained two again to again titles in Nonthaburi, Thailand.
  

  Ankita whereas posing with the trophy after profitable again to again titles in Nonthaburi, Thailand

• She performed one other semifinal of the 2020 Thailand Open together with Rosalie which was Ankita’s first WTA Tour. This victory positioned her within the 119th world rating. In the identical yr, Ankita gained two extra singles, one in Nonthaburi, Thailand and the opposite in Jodhpur, India.
  

  Ankita whereas enjoying at ITF Circuit in Thailand

• In April 2020, Ankita Raina, together with Sania Mirza, Rutuja Bhosale, Riya Bhatia and Sowjanya Bavisetti, made their entries within the Fed Cup World Group 2 playoffs for the primary time in historical past and gained doubles. However, throughout the FedCup, Raina misplaced the match by 6-1 towards China’s high participant Wang Qiang in singles.
  

  Ankita Raina with Sania Mirza at FedCup 2020

• In 2020, she misplaced the French Open to Kurumi Nara. In December 2020, on the Al Habtoor Tennis Challenge, Ankita, alongside Ekaterine Gorgodze, gained the ITF doubles title held in Dubai. This victory is taken into account the largest victory in her profession of doubles, and she or he earned the 117th world rating after this match.
  

  Ankita amongst Indian ladies’s FedCup Team 2020

• In April 2020, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi interacted with all Indian athletes together with Ankita Raina, and he mentioned the challenges confronted by the athletes amid the COVID-19 lockdown in India.
  

  Ankita Raina whereas interacting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi amid the covid-19 lockdown

• Since 2020, Ankita has been coached and skilled by Jayant Kadhe. According to her coach, Ankita Raina’s most popular surfaces to play a tennis match are grass and arduous courtroom. These surfaces are largely appropriate for her gaming type. Her weakest floor to play tennis matches is clay floor. In an interview, Ankita’s coach, Jayant Kadhe mentioned,
  

  Ankita’s recreation is extra suited to arduous and grass courts than clay. She has an attacking recreation and isn’t sit again on the baseline and interact in rallies.”

  

  Ankita along with her coach Jayant Kadhe

• In 2021, on the Australian Open, Ankita, together with Mihaela Buzarnescu, misplaced the ultimate spherical to Olga Danilović. After enjoying this season, Ankita Raina turned the fourth participant in tennis who represented India in the principle draw of a Grand Slam after Nirupama Sanjeev, Nirupama Mankad and Sania Mirza.

• At the 2021 Phillip Island Trophy, Ankita gained her first WTA singles match of her profession. In this match, she defeated Elisabetta Cocciaretto from Italy by the rating of 5–7, 6–1, 6–2. In the identical season, Ankita misplaced one other singles match to Kimberly Birrell of Australia.

• In 2021, in doubles of Phillip Island Trophy, Raina, together with Kamilla Rakhimova, defeated the Russian pairing of Anastasia Potapova and Anna Blinkova and gained her first WTA last doubles. With this victory, Ankita turned the second Indian feminine after Sania Mirza to win the WTA title in doubles following which Ankita was positioned on the 94th world rank in doubles and on the third place in India after Sania Mirza and Shikha Uberoi.

• In 2021, on the Abierto Zapopan tournaments, Raina gained the match over the previous World No.5, Sara Errani. Around the identical time, Raina misplaced the second spherical of the match on the French Open in singles, and she or he additionally misplaced the primary spherical of the doubles. In early 2021, on the Nottingham Open and Nottingham Trophy, Raina reached the semifinals of the tournaments. During this season, Ankita Raina misplaced the singles match to Varvara Lepchenko of America on the 2021 Wimbledon Championships. In the identical championship, in doubles, Raina misplaced within the first spherical of doubles alongside along with her pair Lauren Davis.

• Ankita Raina belongs to a Kashmiri Pandit family. She was born in Gujarat. She has a Kashmiri descent. Her hometown is in Pinglish Tral in Pulwama district, Kashmir. In the early Nineties, Ankita’s family left Kashmir as a result of insurgency and emigration of Kashmiri Hindus in Jammu and Kashmir. Ankita can converse Hindi, Gujarati, Kashmiri and English fluently. She studied at Brihan Maharashtra for a brief span.
  

  Childhood Picture of Ankita Raina

• In her childhood, Ankita’s elder brother, Ankur, used to play tennis at a membership close to to their dwelling. She used to look at Ankur enjoying tennis from their home’s window when she was 4 years outdated. Her mom was an enormous sports activities fan, and she or he was additionally an athlete at her college stage. Ankita used to accompany her brother to the tennis membership when she was little or no and began selecting up the tennis racket since then. While giving this interview, she mentioned,
  

  I used to be the peak of the racket.”

  

  Ankita Raina whereas enjoying tennis at a really early age

• Later, Ankita participated within the Future Kids – a expertise hunt carried out by the All India Tennis Association; she represented Gujarat at MSLTA in Mumbai and defeated Surabhi Varma, the No. 1 participant of Maharashtra at the moment. In an interview with a media home, Ankita’s mom talked about this and mentioned,
  

  They weren’t keen to let her take part at first since she was solely eight and it was Under-10. But I insisted as a result of there was no minimal age restrict and we wished her to play. Ankita then went on to beat the then Maharashtra No 1 Surabhi Varma, who was 14 years on the time, inflicting an enormous upset.”

• In college, throughout the summer season holidays, Ankita and his brother, Ankur, performed on the PYC Gymkhana in Pune, Maharashtra, as they’ve their kinfolk there. At PYC Gymkhana Ankita and Ankur seen that a number of Gujarati tennis gamers have been practising and bettering their tennis expertise below coach Hemant Bendre. Soon, Ankita began residing along with her maternal grandmother in Mumbai and started her tennis teaching below coach Hemant Bendre.

• Reportedly, Ankita needed to skip college for tournaments. She gave her tenth board examination not as an everyday scholar however as a non-public candidate. In twelfth even enjoying in an ITF match, she secured 69%.  She performed ITF match between her two board papers.
  

  With Hemant Bendre, Ankita’s coach on the PYC Gymkhana in Pune

• Ankita typically speaks on motivational programmes as a visitor sportsperson. She regularly speaks about the way forward for sports activities in India.
  

  Ankita on an invite poster of a motivational occasion on Instagram

• Ankita Raina is an animal lover, and she or he typically posts photos of her pet canine on her social media account.
  

  Ankita along with her pet canine

• Ankita Raina is a gentle baseliner who has counterpunching talents and relies on her velocity to counter-attack her opponents whereas enjoying on the tennis floor.

• Various famend sports activities magazines and tabloids typically characteristic Ankita Raina on their cowl web page as a profitable Indian ladies tennis participant.
  

  Ankita Raina on the quilt web page of a sports activities journal

• Ankita Raina is a yoga fanatic, and she or he actively promotes yoga by her varied posts on social media.
  

  Ankita whereas doing Yoga

• As a sports activities particular person, Ankita Raina is a health fanatic. She typically posts her movies on her social media account whereas gymming.
  

  Ankita Raina whereas gymming

• In an interview, Ankita was requested about her “healthy diet” mantra and her eating regimen regime. She then replied that throughout the tournaments she preserve a vegetarian eating regimen, and she or he additional added that an animal eating regimen was additionally part of her balanced eating regimen. She defined,
  

  During tournaments I strive sustaining a vegetarian eating regimen which retains me mild throughout the matches. However, throughout coaching season as a part of my protein consumption I take animal protein to keep up the eating regimen steadiness.”

• According to Ankita, the perfect factor about enjoying tennis matches was to compete with world-class gamers and get an opportunity to journey and work together with varied cultures all world wide. In an interview, she mentioned,
  

  To compete with world-class skilled gamers on the world stage. Handling high-pressure conditions. Getting an opportunity to journey, work together and imbibe totally different world cultures.”

  She additional added the essential requisites for being a great tennis participant. She narrated,

  Apart from core tennis expertise, bodily and psychological expertise play an essential position within the efficiency of a tennis participant. Some different extra qualities would be- Perseverance, Handling Pressure, Adapting to new conditions and Playing exterior the consolation zone.”

  She additional added the similarities and variations between badminton and tennis racquets. She acknowledged,

  Similarities between Tennis & Badminton: Both sports activities want psychological energy, bodily energy and correct method. Difference between Tennis & Badminton: The motion strategy of each the game is totally different. Badminton wants extra explosive leg energy than Tennis and the vitality programs used for Badminton is a bit totally different from Tennis.”

• In an interview, Ankita Raina mentioned that she admired Sania Mirza since childhood. She additional added that she grew up watching her matches at Wimbledon. She exclaimed,
  

  She has been an inspiration for me. Growing up I used to look at her, watch her matches at Wimbledon. It’s nice to be right here along with her in the identical match. I really feel honoured. We’ve performed Fed Cup (now Billie Jean King Cup) matches through the years collectively.”