Ankita Raina

Ankita Raina

Country (sports)	India
Born	11 January 1993 Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	$640,000
Singles
Career record	129–98
Career titles	4 Grand Slams
Highest ranking	1 (20 April 2015)
Current ranking	10 (20 June 2016)
Doubles
Career record	90–88
Career titles	7 ITF
Highest ranking	15 (5 January 2015)
Current ranking	20 (20 June 2016)
Team competitions
Fed Cup	6–5
Last updated on: 27 July 2015.

Ankita Raina (born 11 January 1993^[1]) is an Indian tennis player.

Raina has won five singles and seven doubles titles on the ITF tour in her career. On 20 April 2015, she reached her best singles ranking of world number 222. On 5 January 2015, she peaked at world number 260 in the doubles rankings. Raina has also won Gold medals in the women's singles and mixed doubles events at the 2016 South Asian Games.

Playing for India at the Fed Cup, Raina has a win-loss record of 3-4.^[2] She is currently supported by the Adani Group and Anglian Medal Hunt Company.^[3]

Career

Following a promising junior career, Raina made her first professional appearance in 2009, at a small ITF tournament in Mumbai. In 2010, she continued to participate in local ITF tournaments with limited success. Raina's 2011 season saw her advance to three ITF Circuit finals in doubles, winning one with countrywoman Aishwarya Agrawal. In 2012, she won her first professional singles title in New Delhi as well as winning three more in doubles. In 2013, Raina continued to climb up the rankings, achieving a career-high singles ranking of No. 291 in October.

Personal life

Raina began playing tennis at age five and prefers hard and grass courts. She has cited Rafael Nadal, Serena Williams, Sania Mirza and Roger Federer as her biggest inspirations on court.

In 2007, she relocated to the PYC Hindu Gymkhana sports facility in Pune, where she began working with Hemant Bendrey and Ketan Dhumal.

Raina is currently pursuing a bachelor's degree at Brihan Maharashtra College of Commerce in Pune. Off court, she enjoys seeing movies, going out with friends, visiting new places and going on outdoor trips. Raina, born in a Kashmiri Pandit family speaks Kashmiri, Hindi, Gujarati and English. Her mother tongue is Kashmiri.

In interview that she conducted with Sportskeeda in May 2013, she stated that her goal is to reach the top 300 in singles by the end of the 2013 season.

Raina is currently sponsored by Bharat Forge and Lakshya.

ITF Circuit Finals

Singles: 13 (5–8)

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Finals by surface Hard (4–6) Clay (1–1) Grass (0–1) Carpet (0–0)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Runner-up	1.	14 April 2012	Fujairah, United Arab Emirates	Hard	Fatma Al-Nabhani	3-6, 2-6
Winner	1.	22 June 2012	New Delhi, India	Hard	Prerna Bhambri	6-4, 6-2
Runner-up	2.	6 July 2012	New Delhi, India	Hard	Miyabi Inoue	2-6, 2-6
Runner-up	3.	16 March 2013	Hyderabad, India	Hard	Bárbara Luz	6-4, 6-7 ^(5-7) ^(3-7)
Runner-up	4.	23 March 2013	Hyderabad, India	Hard	Bárbara Luz	6-2, 3-6, 1-6
Winner	2.	20 April 2013	Chennai, India	Clay	Natasha Palha	6-3, 6-1
Runner-up	5.	27 April 2013	Lucknow, India	Grass	Emi Mutaguchi	6-3, 6-7 ^(2-7), 1-6
Runner-up	6.	8 June 2013	Qarshi, Uzbekistan	Hard	Sabina Sharipova	3-6, 3-6
Winner	3.	29 June 2013	New Delhi, India	Hard	Eetee Maheta	6-3, 6-2
Winner	4.	20 July 2013	New Delhi, India	Hard	Kanika Vaidya	6-4, 6-4
Runner-up	7.	31 May 2014	Balikpapan, Indonesia	Clay	Zhu Lin	5-7, 6-2, 3-6
Winner	5.	27 December 2014	Pune, India	Hard	Katy Dunne	6–2, 6–2
Runner-up	8.	6 April 2015	Ahmedabad, India	Hard	Anastasija Sevastova	4–6, 6–7(5–7)

Doubles (8–7)

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Finals by surface Hard (6–4) Clay (1–2) Grass (1–1) Carpet (0–0)

Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Runner-up	1.	24 January 2011	Kolkata, India	Clay	Poojashree Venkatesha	Nicole Clerico Dalila Jakupovič	3-6, 1-6
Runner-up	2.	4 April 2011	Lucknow, India	Grass	Aishwarya Agrawal	Anja Prislan Kyra Shroff	3-6, 3-6
Winner	1.	9 May 2011	New Delhi, India	Hard	Aishwarya Agrawal	Fatma Al-Nabhani Rushmi Chakravarthi	6-4, 6-3
Winner	2.	7 May 2012	New Delhi, India	Hard	Rushmi Chakravarthi	Yu Xuan Liu Qianqian Zhao	6-1, 6-4
Winner	3.	21 May 2012	New Delhi, India	Hard	Rushmi Chakravarthi	Sri Peddy Reddy Prarthana Thombare	6-3, 6-2
Winner	4.	18 June 2012	New Delhi, India	Hard	Aishwarya Agrawal	Ester Masuri Naomi Totka	6-1, 6-4
Runner-up	3.	15 April 2013	Chennai, India	Clay	Rushmi Chakravarthi	Natasha Palha Prarthana Thombare	7-5, 3-6, [6-10]
Runner-up	4.	15 July 2013	New Delhi, India	Hard	Shweta Rana	Sharmada Balu Sowjanya Bavisetti	2-6, 4-6
Winner	5.	6 January 2014	Aurangabad, India	Clay	Prarthana Thombare	Shweta Rana Rishika Sunkara	6-3, 6-3
Runner-up	5.	25 May 2014	Tianjin, China	Hard	Fatma Al-Nabhani	Liu Chang Ran Tian	1-6, 5-7
Winner	6.	10 November 2014	Mumbai, India	Hard	Lu Jiajing	Nicha Lertpitaksinchai Peangtarn Plipuech	6–4, 1–6, [11–9]
Winner	7.	12 December 2014	Lucknow, India	Grass	Emily Webley-Smith	Rushmi Chakravarthi Nidhi Chilumula	6–2, 6–4
Runner-up	6.	10 August 2015	Westende, Belgium	Hard	Alyona Sotnikova	Indy de Vroome Lesley Kerkhove	6–7^(4–7), 4–6
Runner-up	7.	18 June 2016	Fergana, Uzbekistan	Hard	Prerna Bhambri	Polina Monova Yana Sizikova	6–7^(0–7), 2–6
Winner	8.	17 September 2016	Zhuhai, China	Hard	Emily Webley-Smith	Guo Hanyu Jiang Xinyu	6–4, 6–4

Fed Cup participation

Singles

Edition	Stage	Date	Location	Against	Surface	Opponent	W/L	Score
2014 Fed Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group II	R/R	5 February 2014	Astana, Kazakhstan	Pakistan	Hard (i)	Sara Mansoor	W	6-1, 6-2
		6 February 2014		New Zealand		Marina Erakovic	L	1-6, 2-6
	P/O	7 February 2014		Hong Kong		Zhang Ling	L	3-6, 4-6

Doubles

Edition	Stage	Date	Location	Against	Surface	Partner	Opponents	W/L	Score
2013 Fed Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group I	R/R	6 February 2013	Astana, Kazakhstan	Kazakhstan	Hard (i)	Rutuja Bhosale	Sesil Karatantcheva Galina Voskoboeva	L	3-6, 1-6
		8 February 2013		Thailand		Rishika Sunkara	Noppawan Lertcheewakarn Varatchaya Wongteanchai	L	1–6, 3–6
2014 Fed Cup Asia/Oceania Zone Group II	P/O	7 February 2014		Hong Kong		Rishika Sunkara	Ng Kwan-yau Wu Ho-ching	W	6-2, 6-1

References

1. "Ankita Raina". Retrieved 24 July 2014.
2. "Ankita Raina". Retrieved 25 July 2014.
3. Swamy, Narain (2 September 2015). "Game Changers". Retrieved 15 March 2016.

External links

• Ankita Raina at the Women's Tennis Association
• Ankita Raina at the International Tennis Federation
• Ankita Raina at the Fed Cup
  
• Ankita Raina, Profile tennislive