Alyssa Tirtosentono (born 29 May 2000) is a Dutch badminton player. She won a silver medal at the 2018 European Junior Championships.

Career

Tirtosentono came from a badminton family, who have a Surinamese Javanese background. She started to playing badminton with her late grandfather, Press, who was a badminton coach and veteran champion, while her late father, Steven, was also a player and a huge badminton fan. At the age of 17, she started training in the NSF Sportcentrum Papendal, where she also used to live. In the Dutch Eredivisie league Alyssa is playing since a long time for her club DKC in the Hague, after a short spell at another Dutch club BC Dropshot. While in Denmark for some seasons she plays competition for Team Skælskør - Slagelse (TSS). She is also head trainer for the badminton club Appoldro in

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, trainer at Badminton Club Phido in

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and once a week trainer of the juniors at

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in the Netherlands. Her specialty is in the doubles events, where together with her previous doubles partner Imke van der Aar she won the Spanish International 2021 and reached the semi-finals of the Dutch Open 2021. Alyssa en Imke

Together with her former partner Kirsten de Wit she won two events: the

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2022 and the Luxembourg Open 2023. In the Mixed Doubles event she won her first international title at the

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Challenge 2022 with Brian Wassink.

Achievements

European Junior Championships

''Mixed doubles''

BWF International Challenge/Series (6 titles, 4 runners-up)

''Women's doubles'' ''Mixed doubles'' :

BWF International Challenge The BWF International Challenge is a grade 3 and level 1 tournament part of Continental Circuit of BWF tournaments along with International Series (level 2) and Future Series (level 3), sanctioned by Badminton World Federation (BWF) since 2007. ...

tournament :

BWF International Series The BWF International Series is a grade 3 and level 2 tournament part of Continental Circuit of BWF tournaments along with International Challenge (level 1) and Future Series (level 3), sanctioned by Badminton World Federation (BWF) since 2007. ...

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

BWF Junior International (3 titles)

''Girls' doubles'' : BWF Junior International Grand Prix tournament : BWF Junior International Challenge tournament : BWF Junior International Series tournament : BWF Junior Future Series tournament

References

External links

* 2000 births Living people Sportspeople from The Hague Dutch people of Javanese descent Dutch female badminton players 21st-century Dutch women {{Netherlands-badminton-bio-stub