Poorvisha S. Ram (born 24 January 1995) is an Indian

badminton Badminton is a racquet sport played using racket (sports equipment), racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net (device), net. Although it may be played with larger teams, the most common forms of the game are "singles" (with one player per s ...

player who specializes in doubles and

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. As of February 2020, she is ranked 48 in doubles. She had attained career best ranking of 30 in November 2018. She was previously ranked 3 in doubles at national level.

Biography

Poorvisha was born in 1995, in

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. She completed her early education at Sishu Griha Montessori and High School, in Bangalore. Poorvisha started playing badminton in 2005 and represented Karnataka at national level in 2007. She won her first competitive tournament at the age of 13 in 2008 when she won a national level inter-school tournament. In 2009, Poorvisha won silver medal at the 35th National Sports Festival for Women at

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. She has won the national championship in junior circuit consecutively for three years in 2010, 2011 and 2012. In December 2012, Poorvisha represented India at Li-Ning Singapore Youth International Series and won silver medal in the women's double event. Initially, Poorvisha trained at B. N. Sudhakar Academy in Bangalore but moved to Hyderabad in 2013 where she trained under

Pullela Gopichand Pullela Gopichand (born 16 November 1973) is an Indian former badminton player. Currently, he is the Chief National Coach for the India national badminton team. He won the All England Open Badminton Championships in 2001, becoming the second ...

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. Currently, she trains under Arun Vishnu and

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along with Gopichand. Poorvisha won her first senior title in 2015 at

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double event with N. Sikki Reddy. Later that year, she won Bahrain International with Arathi Sara Sunil. In late 2015, Poorvisha was out for sixteen weeks due to career ending lateral and medical

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, however, she recovered and made a come back in early 2016. In 2016, Poorvisha partnered with Meghana Jakkampudi and won Nepal International in

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. Since 2016, Poorvisha has spent her double career in partnership with Jakkampudi whereas in mixed doubles, she partners with Krishna Prasad Ganga. In 2017, Poorvisha and Jakkampudi appeared in various international competitions including

2017 Syed Modi International Grand Prix Gold The 2017 Syed Modi International Grand Prix Gold was the second grand prix's badminton tournament of the 2017 BWF Grand Prix Gold and Grand Prix. The tournament was held at the Babu Banarasi Das Indoor Stadium in Lucknow, India on 24 – 29 J ...

and

2017 All England Super Series Premier The 2017 All England Open Badminton Championships, All England Super Series Premier was the first Super Series tournament of the 2017 BWF Super Series. The tournament took place in Birmingham, England, from 7 to 12 March 2017 and had a total purs ...

. They reached the finals of

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in 2018. In 2019, the pair appeared in

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semifinals where they lost to Japanese pair of Miki Kashihara and Miyuki Kato.

Achievements

BWF International Challenge/Series (5 titles, 3 runners-up)

''Women's doubles'' ''Mixed doubles'' :

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tournament :

BWF International Series The BWF International Series is a grade 3 and level 2 tournament part of Continental Circuit of BWF tournaments along with International Challenge (level 1) and Future Series (level 3), sanctioned by Badminton World Federation (BWF) since 2007. ...

tournament :

BWF Future Series The BWF Future Series is a grade 3 and level 3 tournaments part of Continental Circuit of BWF tournaments along with International Challenge (level 1) and International Series (level 2), sanctioned by Badminton World Federation (BWF) since 2007. ...

tournament

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ram, Poorvisha S 1995 births Living people Racket sportspeople from Bengaluru 21st-century Indian women 21st-century Indian people Indian female badminton players Sportswomen from Karnataka