Gadde Ruthvika Shivani

Gadde Ruthvika Shivani, the daughter of G. Bhavani Prasad[7] and G. Prameela Rani,[8] 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".

Shivani was National Champion at sub-junior, junior, senior level categories in all age groups and in all formats of badminton events, respectively she won 115 national medals. In the international level she won 20 medals. Shivani completed her schooling from Harvest Public School, Khammam. She completed her 11th, 12th standards from Jubilee Hills Public School, Hyderabad and B.Com from St. Ann's College for Women, at present she is pursuing her M.B.A in the same college located in Hyderabad.

In the international circuit, Shivani made her first international sub-junior debut in 2010, she was a bronze medallist in women's doubles category at the Badminton Asia Youth U17 & U15 Championships held in Chiba, Japan, that was her first medal in international level. In the same year she was a silver medallist in women's doubles category at the Li-Ning Singapore Youth International held in Singapore. In 2011, Shivani was a silver medallist in women's singles category at the Badminton Asia Youth U17 & U15 Championships held in Chiba, Japan. She was also a silver medallist in women's doubles category at the DJARUM SIRNAS REG.IV FLY POWER PERTAMINA JATIM OPEN held in Surabaya, Indonesia.

S. No.	Year	Tournament	Opponent/Opponents in final	Score	Result
1	2014	Tata Open India International	Arundhati Pantawane	19–21, 21–18, 21–14[10]	Gold
2	2015	Babolat Bulgarian International	Maria Ulitina	20–22, 15–21[11][12]	Bronze
3	2015	Yonex-Sunrise Bangladesh Open International	Iris Wang	23–21, 19–21, 21–18[13]	Gold
4	2016	South Asian Games	P. V. Sindhu	21–11, 22–20[14]	Gold
5	2016	Russian Open	Evgeniya Kosetskaya	21–10, 21–13[15]	Gold
6	2016	Sats-Yonex Sunrise India International Series	Rituparna Das	7–11, 11–8, 7–11, 12–14[16]	Silver
7	2017	Tata Open India International	Mukherjee Riya	21–12, 23–21[17]	Gold
8	2022	India Maharashtra International Challenge	Miho Kayama	11–21, 11–21	Silver
9	2022	India International Challenge	Tanya Hemanth	19–21, 21–17, 17–21	Silver

  Grand Prix

  International Challenge

  International Series

S. No.	Year	Tournament	Format	Partner	Opponents/Opponent(s) in final	Score	Result
1	2011	Ramenskoe Junior International	Singles	N/A	Evgeniya Kosetskaya	21–17, 22–20[18]	Gold
2	2011	Ramenskoe Junior International	Doubles	Rituparna Das	Evgeniya Kosetskaya, Viktoriya Varabyova	21–15, 18–21, 11–21[19][20]	Bronze
3	2012	Sushant Chipalkatti Memorial India Junior International	Singles	N/A	Rituparna Das	21–19, 21–14[21]	Gold
4	2012	Sushant Chipalkatti Memorial India Junior International	Doubles	Poorvisha S Ram	J. Meghana, K. Maneesha	21–12, 18–21, 21–19[22]	Gold
5	2013	Sushant Chipalkatti Memorial India Junior International	Singles	N/A	Liang Xiaoyu	16–21, 21–16, 21–13[23]	Gold
6	2014	Sushant Chipalkatti Memorial India Junior International	Singles	N/A	Karthik Reshma	11–3, 11–1, 11–9[24]	Gold
7	2015	Sushant Chipalkatti Memorial India Junior International	Singles	N/A	Supamart Mingchua	21–9, 21–6[25]	Gold

  Junior International Grand Prix

  Junior International Series

S. No.	Year	Tournament	Format	Partner	Opponents/Opponent(s) in final	Score	Result
1	2010	Badminton Asia Youth U17 & U15 Championships	Doubles	Rituparna Das	Shim Jae Rin, Sun Min Lee	19–21, 21–14, 14–21[26]	Bronze
2	2010	Li-Ning Singapore Youth International	Doubles	Poorvisha S Ram	Shella Devi Aulia, Anggia Shitta Awanda	16–21, 14–21[27]	Silver
3	2011	Badminton Asia Youth U17 & U15 Championships	Singles	N/A	Akane Yamaguchi	21–17, 13–21, 18–21[28]	Silver
4	2011	Pertamina Open	Doubles	Sanjana Santosh	Cynthia Shara Ayunidha, Rahmadhani Hastiyanti Putri	18–21, 21–17, 10–21[29]	Silver

  Continental Junior Championships

* Statistics were last updated on 9 December 2017.[30]

Ruthvika Shivani has been employed with Bharat Petroleum Corporation Limited (BPCL) since 23 November 2015. Now she is in EXECUTIVE (SPORTS) post at Hyderabad, Telangana office.

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