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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
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
Following are her achievements.[1]
State
- At the age of 10 she won the Kerala State sub-junior title.
National
- 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
- 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
She is employed at Indian Oil Corporation as Customer Services Executive.[1] She also runs an academy at the Kadavanthra YMCA.[3][4]
References
- 1 2 3 "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. Retrieved 26 September 2016.
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