Pooja Sahasrabudhe is an Indian International

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player from

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. She comes from a humble middle-class background, and was born and brought up in

. She took to Table tennis at the age of 9 in the year 2000 and showed keen interest and great talent in the sport. Her coach Mrs. Shailaja Gohad at the Boosters TT Academy, was quick to notice this and it was under her guidance that Pooja groomed as a player. She started representing

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at a very young age. Pooja did her schooling and graduation from

and was absorbed by

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in the year 2010. Pooja recently got married and moved to

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where she continues to train under the guidance of Mr. Rohit Chaudhary - a Shiv Chatrapatee Awardee and her husband Mr. Aniket Koparkar - an ex-international himself. She has won the Singles

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in the U-17 http://www.ttfi.org/pdf/National_Junior_Singles_Champions.pdf and U-21 http://www.ttfi.org/pdf/National_Youth_Champions.pdf events and as of February 2016 she is ranked no.3 in

in the Women's Singles Category and is currently a member of the Indian National Women's Table Tennis Team

Career highlights

* U-17 Junior Girls Singles National Champion 2006-07 at

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in the Women's Doubles Event at the

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2008 held at

* U-21 Youth Girls Singles National Champion 2009-10 at

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* Gold Medal in Women's Team Event and Silver Medal in Women's Doubles event at the

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* Bronze Medal at the

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Open * Gold Medal in Women Team Event and Bronze Medal in Women's Doubles at 3rd Fajr Cup 2014,

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* Member of the Indian National Women's Table Tennis Team for the

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* Member of the Indian National Women's Team for the

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2015 at

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in Team Event (part of PSPB team),

in Mixed Doubles along with fellow PSPB teammate Harmeet Desai and

in the Women's Singles Event at the 77th Senior National and Inter-State Table Tennis Championships at

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* 2 Gold Medals in Team Event and in Mixed Doubles event at the

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held at

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* Member of the Indian National Women's Table Tennis Team for the

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* Won gold medal in

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in Women's team event with

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References

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