Ella Aleksandrovna Diehl (russian: Элла Александровна Диль; born 5 August 1978; née Karachkova; russian: Карачкова) is a
badminton
Badminton is a racquet sport played using racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net. Although it may be played with larger teams, the most common forms of the game are "singles" (with one player per side) and "doubles" (with two players p ...
player from Russia.
Career
Diehl was selected to join the
national team
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The term is most commonly associated with team sports, for exa ...
in 1995.
She had won girls' doubles silver medal at the 1995 European Junior Championships, and also one silver and two bronze in 1997 in team, girls' singles and doubles respectively.
In her home country Russia, Diehl has won 14
national titles as of 2009. In
2000
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and
2008
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, she competed at the
Summer Olympics.
Diehl played at the
2005 World Championships in Anaheim, United States. In the women's singles event she reached the second round before losing to
Salakjit Ponsana
Salakjit Ponsana ( th, สลักจิต พลสนะ; , born 14 February 1984) is a Thai retired badminton player. She competed in the women's singles event at the 2004 Athens and 2008 Beijing Olympics. Her brother, Boonsak Ponsana is al ...
of Thailand.
In October 2005, Diehl won the women's doubles event at the
Scottish International Open in Glasgow, and two weeks later followed this up by winning the women's singles event at the
Irish International in Lisburn. The next year she won the Irish International again.
In 2010, Diehl won the bronze medal at the
European Individual Championships in Manchester,
and in June 2010, claimed the
European Tour circuit finals title, beating
Susan Egelstaff
Susan Egelstaff (born 12 October 1982; née Hughes) is a Scottish badminton player. Egelstaff won team bronze at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester, took women's singles bronze four years later in Melbourne, and finished fourth in the si ...
in the final in three sets. 2010 also saw Diehl beat current world champion
Lu Lan
Lu Lan (born 2 May 1987) is a badminton player from China.
Career
In 2004, she won the Polish Open (badminton), Polish Open. In 2006, she won the 2006 Korea Open, Korea Open and finished the year in the 5th position in the BWF World Ranking.
In ...
of China to reach the semi final of
Swiss Open
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Founded as the Swiss Open in 1923, the tournament was prefixed with Eu ...
.
Achievements
European Championships
''Women's singles''
European Junior Championships
''Girls' singles''
''Girls' doubles''
BWF Grand Prix
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. The World Badminton Grand Prix was sanctioned by the International Badminton Federation from 1983 to 2006.
''Women's singles''
''Women's doubles''
:
BWF Grand Prix Gold tournament
:
BWF & IBF Grand Prix tournament
BWF International Challenge/Series
''Women's singles''
''Women's doubles''
''Mixed doubles''
:
BWF International Challenge tournament
:
BWF International Series tournament
Personal life
On 23 June 2007, in Germany, Karachkova married the Swiss junior badminton team coach, Rainer Diehl of Germany, whom she met in 2000. She lives with her husband in
Yverdon
Yverdon-les-Bains () (called Eburodunum and Ebredunum during the Roman era) is a municipality in the district of Jura-Nord vaudois of the canton of Vaud in Switzerland. It is the seat of the district. The population of Yverdon-les-Bains, , was ...
, Switzerland. There is a child from the first marriage. On 11 October 2011, the duo had a daughter, Lea.
References
External links
IBF player profile
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1978 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Samara, Russia
Russian female badminton players
Badminton players at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Badminton players at the 2008 Summer Olympics
Olympic badminton players of Russia
21st-century Russian women