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Further Personal Information | |
| Residence | Pune, IND |
General Interest | |
| Hobbies | Listening to rock music, watching Hollywood movies. (mobilepaper.timesofindia.com, 31 Dec 2009) |
| Other sports | She is a national junior basketball player and national billiards/snooker competitor. (mobilepaper.timesofindia.com, 31 Dec 2009, punekar.in, 10 Dec 2009) |
| Famous relatives | Her mother Suvarna is a former state basketball player, and her elder brother Animesh is a national level player. Suvarna's husband, Vijay Limaye, was a national swimmer. (timesofindia.indiatimes.com, 26 Dec 2009) |
| Hero / Idol | Her mother Suvarna and her elder brother Animesh. (timesofindia.indiatimes.com, 26 Dec 2009) |
Sport Specific Information | |
| Name of coach | Panchali Tatke |
| Coach from what year? | 2008 |
| Training Regime | As a basketball and snooker player also, she has a varied training program. Its not that difficult to play snooker. Besides, basketball and netball are almost similar, she said. She devotes two hours in the morning to snooker and three hours for basketball at the PYC courts in the evening, six days a week. |
| When and where did you begin this sport? | She took up basketball at age five and started playing netball in 2009. |
International Debut | |
| Year | 2009 |
| Competing for | India |
General Interest | |
| Sporting philosophy / motto | "Women today have the power to achieve, and there's no holding them back in any field. They should live their dreams and achieve it as well." (mobilepaper.timesofindia.com, 31 Dec 2009) |
Sport Specific Information | |
| Coach from which country? | India |
General Interest | |
| Other information | NETBALL NOT FIRST CHOICE If it came to a situation where she would have to choose between basketball, netball and snooker, she would opt for basketball. I've been playing basketball since the age of five. It is my first choice, she said. (punekar.in, 10 Dec 2009) |