Sreeja Akula Height, Age, Boyfriend, Family, Biography & More 2024

Some Lesser Known Facts About Sreeja Akula

• Sreeja Akula is an Indian desk tennis participant. In August 2022, she made the headline after clinching a gold medal on the 2022 Commonwealth Games, held in Birmingham, the United Kingdom.

• According to Sreeja Akula, she was impressed to play desk tennis by her elder sister. In an interview, she stated,
  

  As a baby, a younger one… I used to look at my elder sister take part in desk tennis championships and win them. That is after I determined to observe her footsteps and develop into a professional desk tennis participant.”

• In 2013, Sreeja Akula participated within the Junior and Youth National Table Tennis Championships, the place she bagged a silver medal.

• In 2018, Sreeja Akula participated in and received the National Ranking Championships (North Zone), in New Delhi. There, she received the Youth Title by defeating Saleendeepthi, a Tamil Nadu paddler, by a margin of 4-2.

• In the identical 12 months, Sreeja Akula joined the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) by sports activities quota, and he or she has represented the organisation in a number of national-level competitions.

• In 2018, Sreeja Akula, together with Nikhat Banu, received a gold medal within the ladies’s doubles occasion on the eightieth Senior National and Inter-State Table Tennis Championship. The competitors was held in Cuttack, Orissa. After the victory, whereas giving an interview, Sreeja advised,
  

  It was robust as a result of we had no scope to coach collectively as Nikhat akka stays in Chennai and I’m based mostly in Hyderabad. And, we’re partnering just for the second time ever within the Senior Nationals. Glad that we may pull it off in model.”

• In 2019, Sreeja Akula participated within the National Ranking (West Zone) Table Tennis Championships at Thane.

• In 2020, Sreeja Akula took half within the National Ranking Table Tennis Championship (North Zone) which was held in Sonipat, Haryana. There, she emerged victorious.

• In 2020, Sreeja Akula participated in and received a bronze medal on the UTT 82nd Cadet & Sub-Junior National Table Tennis Championships. The championships have been organised by the Table Tennis Federation of India (TTFI).

• In 2021, Sreeja Akula participated in and received a bronze medal within the ladies’s doubles occasion on the 2021 World Table Tennis Championship, held in Doha, Qatar.

• In April 2022, Sreeja Akula participated in and received the 83rd Senior National Table Tennis Championship. There, she defeated Mouma Das, a paddler from West Bengal. Sreeja turned the second desk tennis participant from Telangana to win a nationwide title after Mir Khasim Ali, who turned the primary nationwide champion from the state in 1964. While giving an interview, she stated,
  

  I’m very delighted. I nonetheless ca not imagine I received the nationwide title. I didn’t count on to win. But I did work laborious for this. I wish to dedicate this to my coaches Somnath Ghosh and health coach Hirak Bagchi. I’ve been coaching with Somnath sir for over ten years and ready for this second. All the matches have been robust. But I maintained focus. The semifinal conflict (Ayhika Mukherjee) was the hardest match I performed.”

• In the identical 12 months, Sreeja Akula took half within the first-ever Women’s National Table Tennis Championship, the place she clinched two gold medals. The competitors befell in Telangana.

• At the 2022 Commonwealth Games, Sreeja Akula was defeated by the Australian paddler named Yangzi Liu by a detailed margin of 3-4. Sreeja was defeated within the ladies’s singles occasion.

• In August 2022, Sreeja Akula received a gold medal with Achanta Sharath Kamal within the blended doubles occasion. The duo defeated their Malaysian rivals by a margin of 3-1.
  

  Sreeja Akula with Sharath Kamal throughout her match on the 2022 Commonwealth Games

• In an interview, Sreeja Akula stated that she attracts her inspiration from Achanta Sharath Kamal. She additionally stated,
  

  He actually is a good participant and his degree is totally totally different from ours however he’s additionally a tremendous mentor. During our coaching periods in Chennai, he would all the time come round and provides us ideas, play strokes with us, continuously inspire and encourage us to do higher in desk tennis. So, I’ve all the time drawn my inspiration from him.”

• In January 2024, Sreeja received the ladies’s singles competitors held on the WTT Feeder Corpus Christi in Texas, USA; she received her first worldwide title by profitable on the occasion.