Reeth Rishya is an Indian table tennis player who has won multiple medals in various national and international competitions. She is considered a motivated player and has trained at different academies in Chennai, Mumbai and Hyderabad. She is the first Indian woman player to win a gold medal in the singles category at the Professional Table Tennis Championships.
Wiki/Biography
Reeth Rishya Tennison was born on Thursday, April 27, 1995, in Chennai, Tamil Nadu (age 27; as of 2022). Her zodiac sign is Taurus. She studied at Kaligi Ranganathan Montford MHSS, Perambur, Chennai, Tamil Nadu till class 10, and later at St. Joseph’s Anglo-Indian High School, Perambur, Chennai, Tamil Nadu. She became interested in table tennis because her father was also a table tennis player. She was trained by coaches VM Ravi Venkatesh, V. Vasu, Ramesh Babu and Bharath at Maharishi Vidya Mandir Club. She did her graduation from MOP Vaishnav College for Women, Chennai.
appearance
Height (approximately): 5′2″
Weight (approximately): 55kg
Hair color: black
Eye color: brown
family
Parents and siblings
Her father’s name is Susairaj Tennison and mother’s name is Jennifer. Her father is a district-level table tennis player and her mother is a housewife. She has a brother named Adrian Anish who is an entrepreneur.
Reeth Rishya’s father Susairaj Tennison, Reeth Rishya and Reeth Rishya’s mother Jennifer (from left to right)
Reeth Rishya’s brother Adrian Anish
husband and children
She married Sunil Shetty, an Indian table tennis player from Mumbai, Maharashtra, on December 23, 2018. They have known each other since the early 2010s as both competed in various competitions and have been friends for a long time. Sanil proposed to her during a training camp and after a brief relationship, they got married in Mumbai. As of 2022, the couple does not have any children.
Reeth Rishya and her husband Sanil Shetty
Religion/Religious Views
She believes in Christianity.
Profession
Reese began participating in district-level competitions in 2008 and participated in the 2009 Taiyuan International Youth Open. In 2010, she won several national ranking championships. In 2011, she participated in the US Open, 2011 French Junior Open, 2011 Spanish Junior Open, and represented India in the 2011 World Junior Table Tennis Championships. In Bahrain. She participated in the 2012 Spanish Junior Open, the 2012 Slovak Junior Open and the 2012 World Junior Table Tennis Championships in Hyderabad, India. In 2013, she participated in the 2013 Polish Junior Open, 2013 Slovak Junior Open, 2013 Indian Junior Open and the 2013 ITTF World Junior Table Tennis Championships in Rabat, Morocco. In 2015, she participated in the Austrian Open (Grand Slam) and the Belgian Open (Challenge). In 2016, she participated in the Asarel Bulgarian Open (Grand Slam) and Czech Open (Grand Slam). In 2017, she participated in the Nigeria Open. After her marriage, she represented Mumbai or Maharashtra and started training with coaches Aman Balgu and Vighnay Reddy at the AV Sports Center Academy in Hyderabad. She participated in the 2020 ITTF Challenge Plus Oman Open in Muscat and the 2021 WTT Middle East Centre. She won the 2021 ITTF Ecuador International Open in Ecuador. She participated in the 2022 WTT Contender Zagreb and the 2022 WTT Feeder Olomouc. In 2022, she represented India at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England.
Reeth Rishya (left) and her coach Aman Balgu
medal
gold
- 2012: South Asian Youth Table Tennis Championships-Youth Women’s Singles Group
- 2012: South Asian Youth Table Tennis Championships-Youth Women’s Doubles Group
- 2015: National Table Tennis Ranking Tournament (Southern District) Youth Women’s Singles Group
- 2017: Tamil Nadu Table Tennis State Championship – Girls Singles Category
- 2021: Ecuador International Open – Women’s Singles Category
Reeth Rishya wins gold at Ecuador International Open
- 2021: Dr. Ramesh Prabhu Memorial 82nd Maharashtra Table Tennis Championships – Women’s Singles Category
silver
- 2009: India Junior & Junior Open – Junior Women’s Doubles Category
- 2009: India Junior & Junior Open – Junior Women’s Singles Category
- 2010: Global Cadet Challenge and Global Junior Tour Finals – Cadet Women’s Singles Category
- 2013: India Junior Open – Junior Women’s Doubles Category
- 2015: All India Public Sector Table Tennis Team Championship – Women’s Singles Category
- 2015: All India Public Sector Table Tennis Team Championship – Women’s Team Category
- 2016: National Table Tennis Ranking Tournament (Eastern Region) Women’s Singles Group
- 2018: All India Public Sector Table Tennis Championships – Women’s Team Category
- 2019: 49th All India Inter-School Table Tennis Championships – Mixed Doubles Category
- 2021: Ecuador International Open – Women’s Doubles Category
- 2021: Women’s Singles Group of the 82nd National Adult Table Tennis Championships
- 2022: The 36th National Games-Women’s Team Category
Reeth Rishya (second from left) at the 36th National Games
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- 2011: India Junior Open – Junior Women’s Doubles Category
- 2016: National Table Tennis Ranking Tournament (Central Zone) Women’s Singles Group
- 2017: Mixed Doubles Group of the 78th National Adult Table Tennis Championships
- 2017: Women’s Team Group of the 78th National Adult Table Tennis Championships
- 2018: The 79th National and Interstate Table Tennis Adult Championships-Mixed Doubles Group
- 2021: Ecuador International Open – Mixed Doubles Category
- 2022: The 36th National Games-Women’s Doubles Group
Facts/Trivia
- She won the gold medal in the singles event at the 2022 Ecuador International Open, becoming the first woman to win the gold medal in the women’s singles event in a professional table tennis championship.
- She was selected for the Tapti Tigers team to participate in the first Gujarat Table Tennis League in 2022; however, she was unable to participate in the competition due to the death of her father-in-law.
Breaking news:
We would like to inform you that Swatiska Ghosh will be playing for Tapti Tigers in place of Reeth Rishya. Due to the sudden death of Reeth Rishya’s father-in-law, she will not be able to participate in the GSL Table Tennis League. pic.twitter.com/UPb2jTmrAA
— Tapti Tigers (@Tapti_Tigers) August 14, 2022
- She is a pet lover who has rescued stray dogs and sold them for adoption.
- She has multiple tattoos, including on her left forearm and left thigh.
Tattoos by Reeth Rishya
- She ranked first in the rankings released by the Table Tennis Federation of India on May 1, 2022.
- She is employed with Indian Oil Corporation of China (IOCL) as a Lifetime Athlete (SRO).
- She was the highest paid female player in the Tamil Nadu Table Tennis Premier League in 2017 and was selected for Rs 40,500.
- In 2022, she participated in the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham for the first time, where she lost to Singaporean Feng Tw in the top 16 of the women’s singles event. She lost in the quarterfinals of the women’s doubles and women’s team events.
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Source: HIS Education