Career
She has played professional squash from the age of 17 and held a world ranking of 162 as of August 2013. Lakshmi Shruti is born on 12 June 1996 in Chennai, and started playing squash at the age of 12. Her parents are Suresh and Vaishnavi Settipalli.
She started her squash career at Madras Cricket Club and then moved her training to the Indian Squash Academy in Chennai under the national coach, Cyrus Poncha.
Shruti is a student of Lady Andal School. Other prizes include winning the gold medal in the Chennai Junior Open and silver in the Associated Press Open.
She was Top 5 in the Australian Junior, Spanish Junior and Indian Junior competitions.