Naina Jaiswal also known as Naina Ashwani Kumar was born on 22nd March, 2000 in Hyderabad to Ashwani Kumar Jaiswal and Bhagya Laxmi Jaiswal. She was a wonder kid because in many aspects, she has changed the meaning of impossible as possible. Initially she proved it when she completed her 10th grade at the age of 8 from IGCSC.With the same zeal and enthusiasm at the age of ten she had completed her Intermediate from St. mary;s college, Hyderabad and from the same college at the age of 13, she took her Bachelor’s Degree in Mass Communication and Journalism and became the youngest graduate in journalism in India. Eventually, she did her Post Graduation in Political sciences from the Osmania University and showed that with strong determination and dedication nothing is impossible. Thus with such a matchless academic achievements she has broken the history and designed her career not less than any celebrity.
Despite of such incredible educational accomplishments, she made a great endeavour to excel as a table tennis player, attained multiple titles in both national and international championships and became no. 1 table tennis player in south east Asia. She has an ardent zeal to win an Olympic Gold Medal. At the age of ten she became cadet girls’ singles national champion, cadet girls’ team national champion, sub junior girls team national champion and junior girls team national champion. She retained the sub juniors girls team national champion title in 2011 and 2012 also. She was the hat trick winner of first ranking tournaments held in 2011,2012 and 2013. She won silver medal in sub junior doubles held in 2011, she also won silver medals in junior girls doubles and youth girls’ team held in 2012 and sub juniors girls’ doubles held in 2013. She has set a record of sorts, by becoming the youngest ever to win a “triple crown” in the inaugural Telangana State Ranking Table Tennis Tournament.
In the Indian open held in 2011 she won the gold medal in cadet girls’ team and a bronze medal in cadet girls’ singles. In the same year she secured the sixth position in the world in the under-12 category and became the first Indian girl who was selected for ITTF World Hopes Team. In 2013 she won gold medals in Cadet Girls’Team and Cadet Girls’ Doubles in Fajr cup held in Iran. She won bronze medals in the Indian Open Cadet Girls’ Team and Cadet Girls’ Doubles held in 2013. She also won a bronze medal in Cadet Girls Singles in Fajr Cup-2013.
