Brenda Beenhakker (born 18 February 1977) is a retired
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badminton
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player.
She is the former European junior champion in the girls' singles event in 1995. She won
Dutch National Championships for 8 times; 5 times in singles (1995, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000) and 3 times in doubles (2005 – with
Karina de Wit
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, 2006 & 2007 – with
Judith Meulendijks
Judith Meulendijks (born 26 September 1978, Helmond) is a former badminton player from the Netherlands.
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Meulendijks started playing badminton at the BC Phoenix in her hometown and then she went to BC Geldrop. In her junior career, she won ...
).
Career
Beenhakker surprised as a seventeen-year-old junior in 1995 by becoming women's singles Dutch national champion. When she was eleven, she became the Dutch junior champion for the first time. Hereafter several youth titles in her and higher age categories followed. A few months after her first championship with seniors in 1995, she also crowned as
European Junior Champions, became the first ever Dutch to win the girls' singles title. Beenhakker played badminton for BC Smashing (
Wijchen
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) in the Dutch premier league. She stopped playing international tournaments in April 2006, career lasting for 19 years.
The Arnhem player started badminton when she was ten years old, after having been interested in playing tennis before. Beenhakker is married, has a daughter and has been working at a childcare center in Wijchen since 2008. As of 2009/10 season, she succeeded Frans Rademaker as trainer of BC Smashing. She gives training at BECA Arnhem and BC Mariken in
Nijmegen.
Achievements
European Championships
''Women's singles''
European Junior Championships
''Girls' singles''
IBF International
''Women's singles''
''Women's doubles''
References
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1977 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Arnhem
Dutch female badminton players
20th-century Dutch women
21st-century Dutch women