Prithika Pavade

Prithika Pavade

No. 38 Worldwide

Prithika Pavade is a table tennis French, born on à Villepinte (Seine-Saint-Denis).

Biography

She discovered the table tennis under the influence of his father who, like his mother, was born in Pondicherry who has long practised at a high level in India1. The family moved to BourgetShe was born and brought up in a small village near the Paul-Simon gymnasium, where she plays for the Bourgogne table tennis club. She took up the sport when she was in first grade. This left-handed player quickly made a name for herself with her speed and intelligence.2,3.

Career

Young people's pathway

Remarkably precocious, she won her first French minimes title at the age of 9, in a category that goes up to 12.4. At the age of 10, she had already won the French Youth Championship twice, and was a member of the French national team 2. SDUS in National 3 in 20145. Since joining SDUS TT in Saint-Denis1She joined the Île-de-France division in 2015.

Part of the Group "Generation 2024At just 12 years of age, she won the French cadet title in in Mulhouse6. Le Seine-Saint-Denis departmental council selected her as one of the athletes to promote France's bid to host the World Cup. 2024 Olympic Games. She appears in it, declaring "I dream of winning my first Olympic medal on home soil".7which earned him a feature on TF18. She comments in 2019: "2024 is an absolute dream, and it would be great to be part of it. But there are several stages before we get there. And that means existing at senior level. That's where we'll see3. " At the age of 12, she played her first Pro B match, narrowly losing the singles but winning the doubles.9. At She retained the French Cadet title she won in 2016 and also won the doubles with her SDUS team-mate Chloé Chomis.10. At at European junior championshipPrithika Pavade won four medals: bronze in the cadet singles, silver in the cadet mixed doubles, bronze in the cadet team event and gold in the cadet doubles with Chloé Chomis.11.

At just 14 years of age, the resident of the Pôle France in Nancy, where she continued her schooling as a schoolgirl, won in with his club Saint-Denis, his first match (his second played at this level) in the Pro A league against 20-year-old Océane Guisnel, French doubles champion in 2018 and member of the reigning champion Poitiers.12. At reached the semi-finals of the French championship after beating no 6 French Emmanuelle Lennon13This is a step up from the quarter-final place achieved two years earlier by beating the no 5 Yuan Cao and defeated only by the no 3 Laura Gasnier14. At At the French Youth Open in Metz, she won two gold medals, one in the individual event, beating the 17-year-old American Amy Wang (4-2), no 2 in the world junior ranking and in doubles with Charlotte Lutz against Croatia-Hungary in the cadet team finals (3-1). In the cadet singles, she was beaten in the final by Japan's Sakura Yokoi (2-3)15. A few days later, she won the French junior championship in singles and doubles with Camille Lutz16. At the World Junior Championships in Thailand in she won bronze with Camille LutzFrance's first world medal in the women's category, with a victory over China in the quarter-finals.17.

Visit she won the European Under-21 Championship organised Varaždin (Croatia)18. At historic coach Nicolas Greiner dies of a heart attack19.

Year 2021

Visit she learned that she had been selected for the Olympic qualifying tournaments of Doha (Qatar) and Guimarães (Portugal) : "I thought the Federation was going to choose two other girls, so I was surprised and I told myself that this was my chance. Things went well in the first qualifying tournament in Doha, and I knew it was going to come down to the wire.20. During the tournament at Qatar where she lost in the semi-final, she carefully observed the training of the world's best players, which fed her experience for the tournament at Portugal 21. Coach Ludovic Remy was hoping to give him more experience with a view to the 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa? Paris 2024 Olympic Games no longer aiming to qualify for the previous Olympiad21. She qualified in for Tokyo Olympic Games at the age of 16. In the first phase in Guimarães, she won three matches, beating the No. 14 and No. 15 seeds (Belarusian Nadezhda Bogdanova and Czech Karin Adamkova). In the second phase, she overcame Skov and, above all, the Czech No.1 seed Hana Matelováworld no. 51, and then followed up with a match against the no. 28 seed, the Ukrainian Solomiya Brateyko. In the semi-final, which qualifies her for the Games, she won 4 sets to 1 against the No. 3 seed. 59e la Russe Yana Noskova22,23. Ludovic Remy notes that he took few dead times and Pavade was never pushed to a seventh set21. This competition could be an opportunity for her to test herself against the Asian players who occupy most of the top 50 places in the world. "His strength is my speed of movement and taking the initiative.24

Visit the SDUS team formed by 16-year-old Prithika Pavade, Camille Lutz18, and Leïli Mostafavi21, won the ETTU Cupsecond European Cup after the Champions Leaguebeating the Hungarian team Budaörsi in the final25. A few weeks later, she was part of the SDUS team that won the French championship by beating Metz (3-2 defeat in the first leg and 3-0 victory in the return).26. She is also qualified for the 2020 Summer Olympics as part of the French women's team, which benefited from the withdrawal of North Korea in June27.

After being beaten in the semi-finals by Slovakia Ľubomír Pištej and Barbora Balážová (de)She was bronze medallist in the mixed doubles (the first French mixed medal since the silver medal won by the duo Jean-Philippe Gatien - Wang Xiaoming in 1992) with Simon Gauzy at 2020 European Table Tennis Championshipsperformed in because of the Covid-19 pandemicbut she and Pauline Chasselin were eliminated in the quarterfinals of the women's doubles competition28.

In Tokyo, Prithika Pavade was knocked out in the first round of the singles by the Russian Yana Noskova 4 rounds of 229.

With Jia Nan Yuan, Pauline Chasselin and Audrey ZarifShe was then part of France's bronze medal-winning team at the World Cup. European Table Tennis Championships in October 2021 at ClujThis was her first European women's podium finish since 1962. She won her matches in the pool and in the quarter-finals, notably beating the European number 1, Austria's Sofia Polcanova (16e worldwide)30but lost in the semi-final to Romania's Elizabeta Samara31.

In November 2021, his recent entry on the senior circuit means that his ranking remains around the 300e place, which did not allow her to take part in the world championships, which are reserved for the 256 best in the world. However, she did compete in the world junior championships in December 2021 in Portugal30. In U19 mixed doubles with Poland's Samuel KulczyckiShe made it all the way to the semi-finals, but lost out to the eventual finalist Kuai Man from the first round in singles32. In December 2021, she reached the final of the French championship, but was beaten 4 sets to 2 by Jia Nan Yuan33.

Year 2022

In 2022, it was ranked No.100 in the world after the points freeze it had achieved prior to the 2020 period. Visit she finds Jia Nan Yuan in the final of the French championship 2022, winning this time by a score of 4 sets to 0.34.

In August 2022, she and Simon Gauzy lost in the quarter-finals of the European championship mixed doubles against the Austrian duo Robert Gardos-Sofia Polcanova35. In December 2022, the U19 world championshipsPrithika Pavade lost out in the quarter-finals of the singles competition, but went on to win a silver medal in the team event, a silver medal in the doubles with Charlotte Lutz and a bronze medal in mixed doubles with Félix Lebrun36.

Year 2023

For the first WTT tournament of 2023 at Durbanshe won a bronze medal in the mixed doubles, teaming up with Félix Lebrun37. At the WTT contender tournament inAmmanPrithika Pavade associated with Camille Lutz lost in the doubles final to the Taiwanese Cheng I-Ching and Lin Yun-Ju after eliminating the European champion duo of Austrian Sofia Polcanova and the Romanian Bernadette Szőcs in the quarter-finals38.

In August, at the WTT Contender in Limashe lost in the quarter-finals of the tournament to Miwa Harimoto after eliminating Miu Hirano and Lily Zhang39. With Camille LutzIn the women's doubles they lost in the semi-finals by 2 sets to 3 against the pair 1re world champion at the time and future winner of the tournament Shin Yu-bin/Jeon Ji-hee40.

It reached the 44e in the world at the time, the best ranking of her career41. With her, the French women's team finished third in the European team championships in September 202342. During her visit to France, she was presented to the King of the United Kingdom Charles III during his stopover in Saint-Denis, then exchanged a few bullets with the Queen Camilla Parker Bowles and Brigitte Macron43.

In October 2023, at the WTT Contender in Antalyashe was eliminated in the quarter-finals by Germany's Han Ying44. Mixed doubles with Félix Lebrunthey lost in the final to the Japanese pair Hina Hayata/Tomokazu Harimoto45.

Style of play

For his coach Nicolas Greiner, "Prithika has a truly extraordinary profile. She's a very attacking left-hander who shows a level of concentration and serenity that is unusual at that age. Her ability to maintain her level in stressful moments is a sign of great maturity.46.

She has a very attacking style of play: "I often try to get ahead of my opponent and attack the first balls quickly. I also vary my serves and returns quite a bit... I'm not too tough, even though I've made progress in that area recently.1.

Awards

  • 201949  :
    • French Cadet Singles Champion
    • French Cadet doubles champion
    • French Junior Singles Champion
    • French Junior Doubles Champion
    • Bronze medallist at the French Senior Singles Championships
    • Bronze medallist at the world juniors (with Camille Lutz17)
  • 2018 :
  • 2017 :
    • French Cadet Singles Champion
  • 2016 :
    • French Cadet Singles Champion
    • French Minimes singles champion
  • 2015 :
    • Runner-up in the French Minimes singles championship
    • French Youth Champion
  • 2014 :
    • French Minimes singles champion
    • French Youth Champion