Aakarshi Kashyap

Some Lesser Known Facts About Aakarshi Kashyap

• Aakarshi Kashyap is an Indian badminton player, who won a gold medal at the South Asian Games 2019 held in Kathmandu and Pokhara, Nepal.

• When she was 8 years old, she started playing badminton in her school. After seeing her interest in the game, her father decided to start her professional training in badminton.

  

• In 2009, she started training in the game under her coach Sanjay Mishra at Ravi Shankar Stadium, Durg.

• On 24 August 2014, she won her first badminton match at the All India Ranking Tournament at Sivakasi.

• In 2016, she joined Prakash Padukone Badminton Academy in Bengaluru. In the same year, Aakarshi won twin crowns in U-17 and U-19 girl’s singles in the 25th Krishna Khaitan Memorial All India Junior Ranking Badminton Tournament.

  

• She then represented India at Asia U-15 and U-17 junior championships held at Kudus, Indonesia. She won a bronze medal in it.

• In 2017, she won U-17 and U-19 matches in the 42nd Junior National Badminton Championship, Guwahati.

  

• In January 2018, she had a 63-minute long match against Gayathri Gopichand, at the Yonex-Sunrise All India Senior Ranking Badminton tournament in Bengaluru.

• In 2019, she defeated Anura Prabhudesai to win the Yonex Sunrise All India Senior Ranking tournament in Vijayawada.

• In 2020, she started practising at the Suchitra Badminton Academy in Hyderabad.

• Kashyap won in the women’s singles category at Kenya International 2020.

• In December 2021, she won a gold medal at the All India Ranking tournament by defeating Tanya Hemanth with a score of 21–15 and 21–12.

• In 2022, she qualified for the Uber Cup team, Asian Games, and Commonwealth Games in individual events.

• In her leisure time, she loves painting, listening to music, journaling, and crafting.

• She is an avid animal lover and owns two pet dogs named Goldy and Simba.

  

• In 2022, she was chosen as the brand ambassador of Chhattisgarh.