 Anand's father Harshavardhan had formerly been an annual participant in the Inter-state Lecturer's Tournaments.Anand also took a personal interest in badminton, and he started playing with his father.He did his schooling at Veeramachineni Paddayya Siddhartha public school and bachelors in engineering in Mechanical Manufacturing from the Potluri V Prasad Siddhartha Institute of Technology in Vijayawada.