Rishika Sunkara
Rishika Sunkara (born 14 May 1993) is an Indian tennis player. In her career, she has won 12 titles on the ITF Circuit; two in singles and ten in doubles (four in 2015 of which three were won with Sowjanya Bavisetti). On 9 November 2015, she reached her career-high singles ranking of world No. 441. On 5 August 2013, she peaked at No. 375 in the doubles rankings. She competed for the India Fed Cup team in 2013 and 2014. Rishika has a rare distinction of being the junior and pro number one in India while still being a teenager. Playing for India in Fed Cup, Sunkara has a win–loss record of 2–3. Early career Rishika Sunkara was born on 14 May 1993 in Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh Andhra Pradesh (, abbr. AP) is a state in the south-eastern coastal region of India. It is the seventh-largest state by area covering an area of and tenth-most populous state with 49,386,799 inhabitants. It is bordered by Telangana to the .... She has an elder brother who used to play tenni ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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New Delhi
New Delhi (, , ''Naī Dillī'') is the capital of India and a part of the National Capital Territory of Delhi (NCT). New Delhi is the seat of all three branches of the government of India, hosting the Rashtrapati Bhavan, Parliament House, and the Supreme Court of India. New Delhi is a municipality within the NCT, administered by the NDMC, which covers mostly Lutyens' Delhi and a few adjacent areas. The municipal area is part of a larger administrative district, the New Delhi district. Although colloquially ''Delhi'' and ''New Delhi'' are used interchangeably to refer to the National Capital Territory of Delhi, both are distinct entities, with both the municipality and the New Delhi district forming a relatively small part of the megacity of Delhi. The National Capital Region is a much larger entity comprising the entire NCT along with adjoining districts in neighbouring states, including Ghaziabad, Noida, Gurgaon and Faridabad. The foundation stone of New Delhi was l ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Poojashree Venkatesha
Poojashree Venkatesha (born 27 July 1990) is an Indian former tennis player, primarily competing on the ITF Women's Circuit. She won a silver medal for her native country in the women's singles event at the 2008 Commonwealth Youth Games. Career 2008 Venkatesha was the runner-up and won the silver medal at the 2008 Commonwealth Youth Games. In the final, she was beaten by Heather Watson of Great Britain 6–2, 6–1. 2010 In the 2010 Commonwealth Games, Venkatesha lost and missed out on the bronze medal along with India's Nirupama Sanjeev for the women's doubles, defeated by Sania Mirza and Rushmi Chakravarthi Rushmi Chakravarthi ( te, రుష్మి చక్రవర్తి; born 9 October 1977) is a former professional tennis player from India. She won a record 52 ITF titles, the highest number set by an Indian female player. She turned pro ... of India, 6–4, 6–2. ITF Circuit finals Singles: 7 (5–2) Doubles: 16 (9–7) References Venkatesha gets ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Sharmada Balu
Sharmada Balu (born 9 August 1993) is a professional Indian tennis player. Balu has career-high WTA rankings of 582 in singles, achieved on 30 November 2015, and 335 in doubles, reached on 3 August 2015. She has won two singles and 16 doubles titles at tournaments of the ITF Women's Circuit. She won the gold medal for India in the doubles competition in partnership with Prarthana Thombare at the 12th South Asian Games held in Guwahati, India in February 2016. She decided to quit tennis at the end of 2016 due to an injury and lack of financial support. Five years later she started playing tennis again. Balu made her WTA Tour The WTA Tour is a worldwide top-tier tennis tour for women organized by the Women's Tennis Association. The second-tier tour is the WTA 125K series, and third-tier is the ITF Women's Circuit. The men's equivalent is the ATP Tour. WTA Tour tou ... main-draw debut at the 2022 Chennai Open in the doubles tournament, she is in partnership with her comp ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Chennai
Chennai (, ), formerly known as Madras ( the official name until 1996), is the capital city of Tamil Nadu, the southernmost Indian state. The largest city of the state in area and population, Chennai is located on the Coromandel Coast of the Bay of Bengal. According to the 2011 Indian census, Chennai is the sixth-most populous city in the country and forms the fourth-most populous urban agglomeration. The Greater Chennai Corporation is the civic body responsible for the city; it is the oldest city corporation of India, established in 1688—the second oldest in the world after London. The city of Chennai is coterminous with Chennai district, which together with the adjoining suburbs constitutes the Chennai Metropolitan Area, the 36th-largest urban area in the world by population and one of the largest metropolitan economies of India. The traditional and de facto gateway of South India, Chennai is among the most-visited Indian cities by foreign tourists. It was ranked the ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Ankita Raina
Ankita Ravinderkrishan Raina (born 11 January 1993) is an Indian professional tennis player. Since 2013, she has regularly been the Indian number one in both singles and doubles. Raina has won one title on the WTA Tour and one at WTA 125 tournaments (both in doubles), along with 11 singles and 24 doubles titles on the ITF Circuit. In April 2018, she entered the top 200 singles rankings for the first time, becoming only the fifth player representing India to achieve this feat. Raina has also won gold medals in the women's singles and mixed-doubles events at the 2016 South Asian Games, and won a bronze medal in singles at the 2018 Asian Games. Raina is one of only two women representing India who has won a WTA-level title. Playing for India Fed Cup team, Raina has a win–loss record of 26–21. She has notable wins over 2011 US Open champion Samantha Stosur, Wimbledon finalist Sabine Lisicki and former world No. 5 Sara Errani. Personal life Raina was born in the Indian st ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Shweta Rana
__NOTOC__ Shweta ( Deva, श्वेता) is an Indian Hindu feminine given name. The Sanskrit word ' literally means "white". The Hindu goddess of knowledge Saraswati is also known as "Shwetambara". Notable people Shweta * Shweta Bhardwaj (born 1985), Indian actress and model * Shweta Chaudhary (born 1986), Indian shooter * Shweta Gulati, Indian television actress * Shweta Kawatra (born 1986), Indian actress * Shweta Menon (born 1974), Indian actress and model * Shweta Mohan (born 1986), Indian singer * Shweta Munshi, Indian television actress * Shweta Pandit (born 1986), Indian singer * Shweta Prasad (born 1991), Indian film actress * Shweta Rathore (born 1988), Indian bodybuilder * Shweta Salve, Indian television actress and model * Shweta Sekhon (born 1997), Malaysian model and beauty pageant titleholder * Shweta Shetty (born 1969), Indian singer * Shweta Subram, Indo-Canadian Bollywood playback singer * Shweta Taneja, Indian novelist, graphic novelist and journalist * S ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Aurangabad, Maharashtra
Aurangabad ( is a city in the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the administrative headquarters of Aurangabad district, Maharashtra, Aurangabad district and is the largest city in the Marathwada region. Located on a hilly upland terrain in the Deccan Traps, Aurangabad is the fifth-most populous urban area in Maharashtra with a population of 1,175,116. The city is known as a major production center of cotton textile and artistic silk fabrics. Several prominent educational institutions, including Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar Marathwada University, are located in the city. The city is also a popular tourism hub, with tourist destinations like the Ajanta Caves, Ajanta and Ellora Caves, Ellora caves lying on its outskirts, both of which have been designated as UNESCO World Heritage Sites since 1983. Other tourist attractions include the Aurangabad Caves, Daulatabad Fort, Devagiri Fort, Grishneshwar Temple, Jama Mosque, Aurangabad, Jama Mosque, Bibi Ka Maqbara, Himayat Bagh, Panchakki and S ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Mayar Sherif
Mayar Sherif Ahmed Abdel-Aziz ( ar, ميار شريف أحمد عبد العزيز; born 5 May 1996) is an Egyptian tennis player. She is the younger sister of Rana Sherif Ahmed. She has career-high WTA rankings of world No. 44 in singles, achieved on 18 July 2022, and No. 88 in doubles, reached on 11 July 2022. Sherif has won one singles title on the WTA Tour, at the 2022 Emilia-Romagna Open. She has also won four singles titles and one doubles title on the WTA Challenger Tour along with nine singles titles and six doubles titles on the ITF Women's Circuit. Sherif spent her final two years of college at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California, graduating in 2018 with a bachelor of science in sports medicine. She was part of the university's tennis team and was an All-American in both 2017 and 2018, and the West Coast Conference Player of the Year in 2018. She made the semifinals of the 2018 NCAA singles tournament and ended her senior season ranked 11th in the nation in singl ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Sowjanya Bavisetti
Sowjanya Bavisetti (born 11 December 1993) is an Indian tennis player. Bavisetti has a career-high singles ranking by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) of 500, achieved on 3 October 2022. She also has a career-high WTA doubles ranking of 402, set on 24 February 2014. She has won three singles titles and nine doubles titles at tournaments of the ITF Circuit. Representing India in the Fed Cup The Billie Jean King Cup (or the BJK Cup) is the premier international team competition in women's tennis, launched as the Federation Cup in 1963 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the International Tennis Federation (ITF). The name was chan ..., Bavisetti has a career win-loss record of 1–6. ITF finals Singles: 6 (3–3) Doubles: 20 (9–11) References External links * * * 1993 births Living people Indian female tennis players Racket sportspeople from Hyderabad, India Sportswomen from Telangana South Asian Games gold medalists for India South Asian Game ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Sharm El Sheikh
Sharm El Sheikh ( ar, شرم الشيخ, ), commonly abbreviated to Sharm, is an Egyptian city on the southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula, in South Sinai Governorate, on the coastal strip along the Red Sea. Its population is approximately 53,670 . Sharm El Sheikh is the administrative hub of Egypt's South Sinai Governorate, which includes the smaller coastal towns of Dahab and Nuweiba as well as the mountainous interior, Saint Catherine, Egypt, St. Catherine and Mount Sinai. The city and holiday resort is a significant centre for tourism in Egypt, while also attracting many Conference#Conferences topics, international conferences and diplomatic meetings. Name Sharm El Sheikh ("bay of the wise") is also known as the "''City of Peace''"; Egyptian Arabic: "''Madinet Es-Salam''", referring to the large number of Conference, International Peace Conferences that have been held there. Amongst Egyptians and also many visitors, the name of the city is commonly shortened to "Sharm" (), whic ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Kyra Shroff
Kyra Shroff (born 17 October 1992) is an Indian former professional tennis player. She has career-high WTA rankings of 470 in singles, achieved on 4 March 2013, and 358 in doubles, reached on 30 January 2017. Shroff won ten ITF doubles titles. She made her WTA Tour main-draw singles debut at the 2007 Sunfeast Open where she was given a wildcard. Playing for the India Fed Cup team The India Billie Jean King Cup team represents India in the WTA & ITF Billie Jean King Cup professional tennis competition and are governed by the All India Tennis Association. They will compete in the Asia/Oceania Zone of Group I in 2016. H ..., Shroff has a win–loss record of 0–2. ITF Circuit finals Singles: 1 (runner-up) Doubles: 22 (10 titles, 12 runner-ups) References External links * * * 1992 births Indian female tennis players Racket sportspeople from Mumbai Living people 21st-century Indian women 21st-century Indian people Sportswomen from Maharashtra {{ ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Rutuja Bhosale
Rutuja Sampatrao Bhosale (born 27 March 1996) is an Indian tennis player. She made her debut for India Fed Cup team in 2012, the same year, she achieved her highest junior ranking of world No. 55. Bhosale, the former Indian number one in the WTA doubles rankings, attended Texas A&M University and graduated with a degree in Human Resources and Tourism management in 2017. She married Swapnil Gugale, former captain of Maharashtra Ranji Team, in August, 2020. In September 2023, Rutuja won the Gold medal in the 2022 Asian Games in mixed doubles event, partnering Rohan Bopanna. ITF Circuit finals Singles: 5 (5 titles) Doubles: 33 (22 titles, 11 runner-ups) Fed Cup participation Singles Doubles Asian Games In September 2023, Rutuja won the Gold medal in the 2022 Asian Games in mixed doubles event, partnering Rohan Bopanna defeating Chinese Taipei pair Liang En-shuo Liang En-shuo (; ; in Chinese mainland born 2 October 2000) is a tennis player from Taiwan. She ha ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |