Ankita Raina

Ankita Raina
અંકિતા રૈના

Raina at the 2018 Wimbledon Championships
Full name	Ankita Ravinderkrishan Raina
Country (sports)	India
Born	(1993-01-11) 11 January 1993 Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
Plays	Right-handed (two-handed backhand)
Prize money	$177,639
Singles
Career record	209–176
Career titles	7 ITF
Highest ranking	181 (21 May 2018)
Current ranking	197 (17 September 2018)
Grand Slam Singles results
French Open	Q1 (2018)
Wimbledon	Q2 (2018)
Other tournaments
Doubles
Career record	158–144
Career titles	13 ITF
Highest ranking	159 (28 August 2017)
Current ranking	252 (10 September 2018)
Team competitions
Fed Cup	11–10
Medal record Representing  India Women's tennis Asian Games 2018 Jakarta Women's Singles
Last updated on: 10 September 2018.

Ankita Ravinderkrishan Raina (born 11 January 1993^[1]) is an Indian tennis player, and the current Indian No. 1 in women's singles.

Raina has won six singles and thirteen doubles titles on the ITF tour in her career. On 9 April 2018, she entered into top 200 singles ranking of world becoming only third Indian to achieve this feat.^[2][3] 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.^[4] She is currently supported by the Sports Authority of Gujarat and is employed with ONGC.^[5]

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, climbing to No. 291 in October.

In April 2018, she reached a ranking of 181 becoming the fourth Indian national to crack to top-200 ladies singles rankings, following Nirupama Sanjeev, Sania Mirza and Shikha Uberoi.^[6]

In August 2018, Ankita won bronze medal in Asian Games at Jakarta, Indonesia in Singles event.^[7]

ITF Circuit Finals

Singles: 16 (7–9)

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Finals by surface Hard (6–7) Clay (1–1) Grass (0–1) Carpet (0–0)

Outcome	No.	Date	Category	Tournament	Surface	Opponent	Score
Runner-up	1.	14 April 2012	$10,000	Fujairah, United Arab Emirates	Hard	Fatma Al-Nabhani	3-6, 2-6
Winner	1.	22 June 2012	$10,000	New Delhi, India	Hard	Prerna Bhambri	6-4, 6-2
Runner-up	2.	6 July 2012	$10,000	New Delhi, India	Hard	Miyabi Inoue	2-6, 2-6
Runner-up	3.	16 March 2013	$10,000	Hyderabad, India	Hard	Bárbara Luz	6-4, 6-7 (5-7) (3-7)
Runner-up	4.	23 March 2013	$10,000	Hyderabad, India	Hard	Bárbara Luz	6-2, 3-6, 1-6
Winner	2.	20 April 2013	$10,000	Chennai, India	Clay	Natasha Palha	6-3, 6-1
Runner-up	5.	27 April 2013	$10,000	Lucknow, India	Grass	Emi Mutaguchi	6-3, 6-7 (2-7), 1-6
Runner-up	6.	8 June 2013	$25,000	Qarshi, Uzbekistan	Hard	Sabina Sharipova	3-6, 3-6
Winner	3.	29 June 2013	$10,000	New Delhi, India	Hard	Eetee Maheta	6-3, 6-2
Winner	4.	20 July 2013	$10,000	New Delhi, India	Hard	Kanika Vaidya	6-4, 6-4
Runner-up	7.	31 May 2014	$25,000	Balikpapan, Indonesia	Clay	Zhu Lin	5-7, 6-2, 3-6
Winner	5.	27 December 2014	$25,000	Pune, India	Hard	Katy Dunne	6–2, 6–2
Runner-up	8.	6 April 2015	$25,000	Ahmedabad, India	Hard	Anastasija Sevastova	4–6, 6–7(5–7)
Runner-up	9.	28 May 2017	$60,000	Lu'an, China	Hard	Zhu Lin	3–6, 6–3, 4–6
Winner	6.	17 March 2018	$25,000	Gwalior, India	Hard	Amandine Hesse	6–2, 7–5
Winner	7.	14 July 2018	$25,000	Nonthaburi, Thailand	Hard	Risa Ozaki	6–2, 6–3

Doubles: 21 (13–8)

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Finals by surface Hard (9–4) Clay (3–3) Grass (1–1) Carpet (0–0)

Outcome	No.	Date	Category	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Runner-up	1.	24 January 2011	$10,000	Kolkata, India	Clay	Poojashree Venkatesha	Nicole Clerico Dalila Jakupovič	3-6, 1-6
Runner-up	2.	4 April 2011	$10,000	Lucknow, India	Grass	Aishwarya Agrawal	Anja Prislan Kyra Shroff	3-6, 3-6
Winner	1.	9 May 2011	$10,000	New Delhi, India	Hard	Aishwarya Agrawal	Fatma Al-Nabhani Rushmi Chakravarthi	6-4, 6-3
Winner	2.	7 May 2012	$10,000	New Delhi, India	Hard	Rushmi Chakravarthi	Liu Yuxuan Zhao Qianqian	6-1, 6-4
Winner	3.	21 May 2012	$10,000	New Delhi, India	Hard	Rushmi Chakravarthi	Sri Peddy Reddy Prarthana Thombare	6-3, 6-2
Winner	4.	18 June 2012	$10,000	New Delhi, India	Hard	Aishwarya Agrawal	Ester Masuri Naomi Totka	6-1, 6-4
Runner-up	3.	15 April 2013	$10,000	Chennai, India	Clay	Rushmi Chakravarthi	Natasha Palha Prarthana Thombare	7-5, 3-6, [6-10]
Runner-up	4.	15 July 2013	$10,000	New Delhi, India	Hard	Shweta Rana	Sharmada Balu Sowjanya Bavisetti	2-6, 4-6
Winner	5.	6 January 2014	$10,000	Aurangabad, India	Clay	Prarthana Thombare	Shweta Rana Rishika Sunkara	6-3, 6-3
Runner-up	5.	25 May 2014	$25,000	Tianjin, China	Hard	Fatma Al-Nabhani	Liu Chang Ran Tian	1-6, 5-7
Winner	6.	10 November 2014	$25,000	Mumbai, India	Hard	Lu Jiajing	Nicha Lertpitaksinchai Peangtarn Plipuech	6–4, 1–6, [11–9]
Winner	7.	12 December 2014	$15,000	Lucknow, India	Grass	Emily Webley-Smith	Rushmi Chakravarthi Nidhi Chilumula	6–2, 6–4
Runner-up	6.	10 August 2015	$25,000	Westende, Belgium	Hard	Alyona Sotnikova	Indy de Vroome Lesley Kerkhove	6–7(4–7), 4–6
Runner-up	7.	18 June 2016	$25,000	Fergana, Uzbekistan	Hard	Prerna Bhambri	Polina Monova Yana Sizikova	6–7(0–7), 2–6
Winner	8.	17 September 2016	$50,000	Zhuhai, China	Hard	Emily Webley-Smith	Guo Hanyu Jiang Xinyu	6–4, 6–4
Winner	9.	23 April 2017	$25,000	Pula, Italy	Clay	Eva Wacanno	Irene Burillo Escorihuela Yvonne Cavallé Reimers	6–4, 6–4
Winner	10.	12 May 2017	$25,000	Hua Hin, Thailand	Hard	Emily Webley-Smith	Nudnida Luangnam Zhang Yukun	6–2, 6–0
Winner	11.	13 August 2017	$25,000	Koksijde, Belgium	Clay	Bibiane Schoofs	Marie Benoît Magali Kempen	3–6, 6–3, [11–9]
Runner-up	8.	20 August 2017	$25,000	Leipzig, Germany	Clay	Tereza Mrdeža	Valentyna Ivakhnenko Lidziya Marozava	2–6, 1–6
Winner	12.	27 August 2017	$60,000	Artvin, Turkey	Hard	Gabriela Cé	Elitsa Kostova Yana Sizikova	6–2, 6–3
Winner	13.	12 May 2018	$60,000	Lu'an, China	Hard	Harriet Dart	Liu Fangzhou Xun Fangying	6–3, 6-3

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

Asian Games

Singles

Medal	Date	Tournament	Location	Opponent	Score
Bronze	August 2018	2018 Asian Games	Jakarta, Indonesia	Zhang Shuai	4–6, 6–7(6–8)

References

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