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Lín Dān. IPA. [lǐn tán] ⓘ. Lin Dan (Chinese: 林丹; born 14 October 1983) [1] is a Chinese former professional badminton player. He is a two-time Olympic gold medallist, five-time World champion, two-time World Cup champion, two-time Asian games gold medalist, four-time Asian Champion, as well as a six-time All England champion.
Saina Nehwal (pronunciation ⓘ; born 17 March 1990) is an Indian professional badminton player. A former world no. 1, she has won 24 international titles, which includes ten Superseries titles. Although she reached the world's 2nd in 2009, it was only in 2015 that she was able to attain the world no. 1 ranking, thereby becoming the only female ...
Career. Natekar won over 100 [4] national and international titles for India in a career spanning 15 years. [4] Natekar was the first Indian to win a title abroad, in 1956. [5][6] Natekar was a director of Natekar Sports and Fitness (NSF). He won the Men's Doubles National Championship a total of six times, [7] Men's Singles National ...
Personal life. [edit] Today Gillian Margaret Clark a.k.a. Gill Clark is known as the “voice of badminton” and she has been the lead commentator for the Badminton World Federation (BWF) for the past 25 years. Clark as a former world No. 1 and a six-time Commonwealth Games gold medal winner has experienced making the transition to a leading ...
P. V. Sindhu. Pusarla Venkata Sindhu (born 5 July 1995) [5] is an Indian badminton player. [6] Considered one of India's most successful sportspersons, Sindhu has won medals at various tournaments such as the Olympics and on the BWF circuit, including a gold at the 2019 World Championships. She is the first and only Indian to become the ...
Tai Tzu-ying (Chinese: 戴資穎; pinyin: Dài Zīyǐng; Wade–Giles: Tai Tzu-ying; born 20 June 1994) is a Taiwanese badminton player. [1] At the age of 22, she achieved world no.1 in the BWF women's singles ranking in December 2016, and has held that title for 214 weeks, the longest in BWF history.
Taufik Hidayat (born 10 August 1981) is an Indonesian retired badminton player. He is a former World, Olympic, two time Asian Games, and three time Asian champion, and the youngest world number one in the men's singles.
Srikanth Kidambi. Srikanth Kidambi (born 7 February 1993) is an Indian badminton player. A former world no. 1, Kidambi was awarded the Padma Shri, India's fourth highest civilian award, in 2018. [ 1 ] and the Arjuna award in 2015. In 2021, he became the first Indian to reach the World Championship final in the men's singles discipline.