A. Radhika Suresh
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| Full name | Ambika Radhika Suresh | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality |  India | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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A. Radhika Suresh is a table tennis player from Kerala, India. She is an Olympian and former national champion.
Family[edit]
She belongs to a family of table tennis players. Her father K.R. Pillai was a former Tamil Nadu and Kerala state champion and her elder brother, R. Rajesh too is a former state champion.[1]
Achievements[edit]
Following are her achievements.[1]
State[edit]
- At the age of 10 she won the Kerala State sub-junior title.
National[edit]
- Won national sub-junior title at Muzaffarpur in 1986
- Won national junior's title at Indore in 1989
- Won national women's title at Pondicherry in 1995
- Women's singles titles in the 22nd National veterans table tennis championship at the Rajiv Gandhi indoor stadium at Kochi in 2015[2]
International[edit]
- World championships in 1991, 1993 and 1995
- Commonwealth championships in 1991, 1993 and 1995
- Asian Table Tennis Championships in 1990, 1992 and 1994
- 1996 Atlanta Olympics table tennis event
- was part of the silver medal-winning Indian squad in the team event at the 1991 Nairobi Commonwealth Table Tennis Championships, .
- won all three gold medals, winning the singles, doubles and team events, at the 1991 Colombo and the 1993 Dhaka South Asian Federation Games.
Personal life[edit]
She is employed at Indian Oil Corporation as Customer Services Executive.[1] She also runs an academy at the Kadavanthra YMCA.[3][4]
References[edit]
- ^ a b c "Radhika Suresh::Kerala Table Tennis Association". ktta.in. Archived from the original on 24 October 2016. Retrieved 26 September 2016.
- ^ "Arup, Ambika triumph". The Hindu. Retrieved 26 September 2016.
- ^ "Radhika tastes success as coach". The Hindu. Retrieved 26 September 2016.
- ^ "Then an Aggressive Player, Now a Patient Coach - The New Indian Express". newindianexpress.com. Archived from the original on 3 December 2015. Retrieved 26 September 2016.