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2021 BWF World Championships – Men's Singles
The men's singles tournament of the 2021 BWF World Championships took place from 12 to 19 December 2021 at the Palacio de los Deportes Carolina Marín Palacio de los Deportes Carolina Marín is a Spanish sports complex in the city of Huelva, in Andalusia, Spain. Her name is a tribute to the Huelva badminton player Carolina Marín Carolina María Marín Martín (born 15 June 1993) is a Spa ... at Huelva. Seeds The seeding list is based on the BWF World Ranking, World Rankings of 23 November 2021. # Kento Momota ''(Withdrew)'' # Viktor Axelsen ''(First round)'' # Anders Antonsen '' (Semi-finals) '' # Chou Tien-chen ''(Second round)'' # Anthony Sinisuka Ginting ''(Withdrew)'' # Lee Zii Jia ''(Quarter-finals)'' # Jonatan Christie ''(Withdrew)'' # Ng Ka Long ''(First round)'' Kanta Tsuneyama ''(Second round)'' Wang Tzu-wei ''(First round)'' Rasmus Gemke ''(Third round)'' Srikanth Kidambi '' (Final) '' Lee Cheuk Yiu ''(Third round)'' B. Sai Praneeth ''(First round)'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palacio De Los Deportes Carolina Marín
Palacio de los Deportes Carolina Marín is a Spanish sports complex in the city of Huelva, in Andalusia, Spain. Her name is a tribute to the Huelva badminton player Carolina Marín. It is the most important indoor sports facility with the largest capacity in all of Huelva and the province. The Palacio de los Deportes has hosted CB Ciudad de Huelva matches since they moved from the Andrés Estrada Sports Center. They began playing at the Palacio in 1999-00, until his disappearance in 2008; being the modern pavilion in which the Huelva team fought to return to the Liga ACB, being about to achieve it in the 2004–05 and 2006–07 seasons. It registered a historic full house in the fourth promotion match of the 2004–05 season between CB Ciudad de Huelva and Baloncesto Fuenlabrada, in which, in the event of a Huelva victory, Ciudad would return to the Liga ACB, although it was finally the Madrid team the one who achieved the square. After the disappearance of the CB Ciudad de Huelv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kanta Tsuneyama
is a Japanese badminton player. Achievements Youth Olympic Games ''Mixed doubles'' Asia Junior Championships ''Boys' singles'' ''Boys' doubles'' BWF World Tour (3 titles) The BWF World Tour, which was announced on 19 March 2017 and implemented in 2018, is a series of elite badminton tournaments sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation (BWF). The BWF World Tour is divided into levels of World Tour Finals, Super 1000, Super 750, Super 500, Super 300 (part of the HSBC World Tour), and the BWF Tour Super 100. ''Men's singles'' BWF Grand Prix (1 title, 1 runner-up) The BWF Grand Prix had two levels, the Grand Prix and Grand Prix Gold. It was a series of badminton tournaments sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation (BWF) and played between 2007 and 2017. ''Men's singles'' : BWF Grand Prix Gold tournament : BWF Grand Prix tournament BWF International Challenge/Series (2 titles, 2 runners-up) ''Men's singles'' : BWF Inter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toby Penty
Toby Penty (born 12 August 1992) is a retired English badminton player. He started playing badminton at aged 9, and won U-19 English National Championships in 2011. In 2010, he won junior titles in the Netherlands and Switzerland. In 2017, he won the Swedish International tournament in the men's singles event. Penty competed at the 2019 European Games, 2020 Olympic Games and at the 2022 Commonwealth Games. Penty announced his retirement on 6 September 2022. The 2022 BWF World Championships was his last tournament. Personal life Penty has lost all of his hair on his body since November 2018, and it was diagnosed as alopecia. Achievements BWF Grand Prix (1 title) The BWF Grand Prix had two levels, the Grand Prix and Grand Prix Gold. It was a series of badminton tournaments sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation (BWF) and played between 2007 and 2017. ''Men's singles'' : BWF Grand Prix Gold tournament : BWF Grand Prix tournament BWF International Challenge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toma Junior Popov
Toma Junior Popov (born 29 September 1998) is a French badminton player. He won the bronze medal at the 2015 European Junior Championships in the boys' singles event. Popov made history as the first non-Danish male player to win a European Junior team gold as well as the men's singles and doubles in 2017. He joined Peter Gade, Jim Laugesen, and Thomas Stuer-Lauridsen as the only men to have ever completed the treble. He competed at the 2018 Mediterranean Games and claimed the men's singles bronze medal. Personal life Born in Sofia, Popov came from a badminton family. His father, Thomas, is a former Bulgarian and French national player. His brother, Christo Popov, also plays badminton. Both of them trained at the Fos-sur-Mer club. Achievements European Championships ''Men's singles'' Mediterranean Games ''Men's singles'' European Junior Championships ''Boys' singles'' ''Boys' doubles'' BWF World Tour (4 titles) The BWF World Tour, which was announced on 19 Mar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nhat Nguyen
Nhat Nguyen (; , ; born 16 June 2000) is an Irish badminton player. Born in Vietnam, Nguyen left the country for a new life in Dublin, Ireland along with his parents and older sister, when he was six years old. Then, he started playing badminton at the local club with his father. He was the gold medalist at the 2016 European U17 Championships in the boys' singles event, and also won the bronze medal in the doubles event partnered with Paul Reynolds. At the same year, he clinched the men's singles title at the Irish National Championships. Nguyen won his first senior international title at the Polish International in the men's doubles event with Reynolds, after that the men's singles title at the Welsh International. Achievements European Junior Championships ''Boys' singles'' BWF International Challenge/Series ''Men's singles'' ''Men's doubles'' : BWF International Challenge tournament : BWF International Series tournament : BWF Future Series The BWF Future Seri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Weißkirchen
Max Weißkirchen (born 18 October 1996) is a German badminton player. He participated at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics in Nanjing, China. Weißkirchen won gold and silver medals at the 2015 European Junior Championships in mixed doubles and boys' singles events respectively. Achievements European Junior Championships ''Boys' singles'' ''Mixed doubles'' BWF International Challenge/Series (1 title, 5 runners-up) ''Men's singles'' ''Mixed doubles'' : BWF International Challenge tournament : BWF International Series tournament : BWF Future Series The BWF Future Series is a grade 3 and level 3 tournaments part of Continental Circuit of BWF tournaments along with International Challenge (level 1) and International Series (level 2), sanctioned by Badminton World Federation (BWF) since 2007. ... tournament References External links * * * * 1996 births Living people Sportspeople from Bonn German male badminton players Badminton players at the 2014 S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cheam June Wei
Cheam June Wei (born 23 January 1997) is a Malaysian badminton player. He was the mixed doubles gold medalist at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics. Career Cheam started playing badminton at aged 8 in Penang. As a junior player, he has been trained by Teh Peng Huat, the former coach of world No. 1 Lee Chong Wei, for more than year before training under task Lim Theam Teow. In 2012, he won the mixed team bronze medal at the Asia Junior Championships in Gimcheon, South Korea. In 2014, he was promoted to join the national team from the Bukit Jalil Sports School, and at the same year he competed at the Nanjing Summer Youth Olympics and clinched the mixed doubles title with his partner from Hong Kong, Ng Tsz Yau. He also the runner-up at the 2014 Malaysia International Junior Championships, and at the 2015 Dutch Junior, he was the champion. Achievements Youth Olympic Games ''Mixed doubles'' BWF World Tour (2 runners-up) The BWF World Tour, which was announced on 19 March ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Cordón
Kevin Haroldo Cordón Buezo (born November 28, 1986) is a Guatemalan badminton player. He won two men's singles title at the Pan American Games, four title at the Pan Am Championships (3 in singles and 1 in doubles), and six title at the Central American and Caribbean Games (4 in singles and 2 in doubles). He is a four time Olympian for Guatemala participating at the 2008, 2012, 2016 and the 2020 Olympic Games. Career Born in La Unión, Zacapa, Cordón was named after former England international footballer Kevin Keegan, of whom his father was a fan. In spite of badminton not being popular in Guatemala during his childhood, he became a badminton player as he thought it would give him a better chance of one day becoming an Olympian than if he played a different sport, being the first member of his family to practice the sport. He began playing at the age of 11 and by 1998 he was a part of the Zacapa Department's youth team. After winning the silver medal at the 2007 Pan Am ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michał Rogalski
Michał Rogalski (born 23 June 1987) is a Polish badminton player. He competed at the 2015 and 2019 European Games. Achievements BWF International Challenge/Series (2 titles, 6 runners-up) ''Men's singles'' ''Men's doubles'' : BWF International Challenge tournament : BWF International Series tournament : BWF Future Series The BWF Future Series is a grade 3 and level 3 tournaments part of Continental Circuit of BWF tournaments along with International Challenge (level 1) and International Series (level 2), sanctioned by Badminton World Federation (BWF) since 2007. ... tournament References External links * 1987 births Living people Sportspeople from Wrocław Polish male badminton players Badminton players at the 2015 European Games Badminton players at the 2019 European Games European Games competitors for Poland {{Poland-badminton-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kantaphon Wangcharoen
Kantaphon Wangcharoen ( th, กันตภณ หวังเจริญ; born 18 September 1998) is a Thai badminton player. At the young age, Wangcharoen became the runner-up in the senior tournament 2014 Singapore International in the men's singles event after losing the match because of foot injury. Wangcharoen clinched the bronze medal at the World Junior Championships in the boys' singles event, also part of the junior team that won the mixed team bronze in 2014 and 2016, and Asian mixed team bronze in 2016. Wangcharoen was a member of the Thailand national team that won the bronze medals at the 2017, 2019 Southeast Asian Games and 2019 Sudirman Cup. He also the finalist at the BWF Grand Prix Gold event 2017 Thailand Masters, and won the 2017 National Championships title. At the 2018 Asian Games in Indonesia, Wangcharoen was criticized by the Thai media after he mocked and made fun of Indonesian fans in front of them by using offensive Thai language. He had recorded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenta Nishimoto
is a Japanese badminton player. He won a silver medal in the men's singles at the 2017 Summer Universiade and a bronze medal at the 2018 Asian Games. Nishimoto was part of Japan winning team at the 2012 Asian Junior Championships and at the 2017 Asia Mixed Team Championships. Career 2013: First career final In 2013, Nishimoto reached the final of the Russia Open Grand Prix tournament, and became the runner-up after being defeated by Vladimir Ivanov of Russia. 2017: Summer Universiade silver In August, Nishimoto participated in the 2017 Summer Universiade, held in Taipei. He lost to Wang Tzu-wei in the final, 16–21, 15–21, clinching a silver medal. 2018: Asian Games bronze; 2 World Tour finals In January, Nishimoto reached his first BWF World Tour final, the 2018 Malaysia Masters. In the final, he lost to then-reigning world champion Viktor Axelsen in the final, 13–21, 23–21, 18–21 in three games. Later in August, Nishimoto participated in the 2018 A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
