Gadde Ruthvika Shivani
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గద్దె రుత్విక శివాని
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| Birth name | Gadde Ruthvika Shivani | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 India
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26 March 1997 Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, India |
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| Residence | Khammam, Telangana, India | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 60 kg (132 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Handedness | Right handed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coach | Pullela Gopichand | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Career title(s) | 4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Highest ranking | 49 (1 December 2016) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Current ranking | 49 (8 December 2016) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Gadde Ruthvika Shivani (born 26 March 1997) is an Indian badminton player who currently plays Singles. She is currently being supported by the GoSports Foundation through the Rahul Dravid Athlete Mentorship Programme. She trains at the Gopichand Badminton Academy.
Gadde Ruthvika Shivani, the daughter of G. Bhavani Prasad and G. Prameela Rani, was born in a Telugu family on 26 March 1997. Her father is a small business man and her mother is a homemaker and Shivani's elder brother is G. S. Chaitanya Prasad. Shivani getting interested in playing badminton at the age of five, she used to go along with his father to play with club members at Khammam's Sequel Resorts. Her father and his friends noticed her keen interest to the sport, from then she started playing it every single day and make it as a career.
In 2002, Shivani initially took in the nuts and bolts of the game with the direction of club coach Prem Singh at Khammam's Sequel Resorts. Later, she joined in the Sports Authority Academy, Khammam, in 2004 under the guidance of coach G. Sudhakar Reddy till 2011. During her training she sharpened her repertoire of mix-and-match shots to bait and confuse her opponents. One of the others things she did was to play singles and doubles with boys. While their physicality made Shivani work harder, her techniques refined her game, making her stand out.
Soon after Shivani joined in the Pullela Gopichand Badminton Academy in 2012, she won several medals after joining in the Gopichand Badminton Academy, one of the biggest triumph is winning the women's singles title in Russian Grand Prix. About Shivani's performance at the Russian Grand Prix, Gopichand said: "She had the habit of playing against the boys in her early days". "So, her fitness and power is automatically developed and it is likely to make the difference from the other students of this academy. And after she joined the academy, I did not overwrite her game style. Rather I tried to polish it".
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