Pratima Singh

Pratima Singh is a member of the India women's national basketball team,[1] hailing from Jaunpur, Uttar Pradesh. Pratima Singh was born on 6 February 1990 in the Shivpur area in the holy city of Varanasi in Uttar Pradesh.[2] Born in Solanki Agnivanshi Rajput family from Varanasi, her siblings have also either played or are playing for India- her sisters Divya and Priyanka have represented Indian National Women's Basketball Team, while Prashanti Singh an Arjuna Award and Padma Shri winner is the current captain of the team and Akanksha is a member.

Playing career

Singh started playing basketball in 2003 in Uttar Pradesh and later learned basketball at Udai Pratap college. With her growing basketball skills she was selected to the Junior Indian team in the year of 2006 and captained the Junior Indian Girls team in 2008. In her leadership Delhi has won many medals such as Junior National championship in Bhilwara, Rajasthan.

She led the Delhi University Team in All India Inter-university, Kottayam, Kerala, 2010 and won the gold medal. She was vice Captain when University of Delhi won a gold medal in the All India University basketball Championship at Nellore, where she was given joint best player award along with her sister Akanksha Singh..

She is a product of Jesus and Mary College (2008–09), she won many 'Best Player' titles at the university level. Her peers in college knew her as someone with a lot of style and chutzpah. She won a gold medal for the country in the first 3×3 FIBA Asia Championship. She was also known as a fighter as she fought through her knee injury with a lot of hard work and avoided an operation and then performed after a year of hard work and became the highest scorer of the tournament in 2012.

Personal life

She comes from a family of Indian basketball players, three of her sisters currently are a member of the Indian women's national basketball team. They are also known as Singh Sisters.

On 10 December 2016, she married Indian cricketer Ishant Sharma.[3]

Awards and achievements

International sporting achievement

References
  1. Pratima Singh Profile, asia-basket.com
  2. Kar, Tanuj (20 June 2016). "Pratima Singh: All you need to know about the Indian basketball player and Ishant Sharma's fiancee". www.sportskeeda.com. Retrieved 27 August 2020.
  3. "Ishant Sharma, Pratima Singh tie the knot, MS Dhoni, Yuvraj Singh attend". The Indian Express. 10 December 2016.
  4. "Pratima Singh: All you need to know about the Indian basketball player and Ishant Sharma's fiancee". 20 June 2016.
  5. "3x3 - India's women, Qatar's men crowned at first FIBA Asia 3x3 C'ship".
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