At the 2022 Commonwealth Games, Akula won the gold medal in the mixed doubles event with Sharath Kamal.

Both her father Praveen Kumar, a manager in a private insurance company, and elder sister Ravali are table tennis players.

Before that she learnt the basics at St Paul's Academy in Basheer Bagh when she was nine years and continued the game at YMCA in Narayanguda,[6] She passed her intermediate (plus two) with 98.7 percent and then graduated in commerce.

She was also a part of the Indian team at the 2022 Commonwealth Games where she won gold medal in mixed doubles event with Sharath Kamal.

[10] This was followed by her second singles career title at the WTT Feeder Beirut II in March 2024 where she beat Luxembourg's Sarah De Nutte 3-1 (6–11, 12–10, 11–5, 11–9) in the final.