Sapsiree Taerattanachai (; ; born 18 April 1992) is a Thai

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. Taerattanachai and Puavaranukroh made history as the first ever Thai pair to win the year-end Finals tournaments, the World Championships title and rank first in the

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. Taerattanachai competed at the 2010, 2014 and 2018 Asian Games; and at the Badminton at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Women's doubles, 2016 and Badminton at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Mixed doubles, 2020 Summer Olympics. In 2009, she was a semi-finalist in girls' doubles at the 2009 BWF World Junior Championships, World Junior Championships, and the following year, she was runner-up at the 2010 Asian Junior Badminton Championships, Asian Junior Championships. She won gold at the Badminton at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics, Youth Olympic Games in Singapore. In 2014, Sapsiree became the first player ever to become a BWF Grand Prix Gold and Grand Prix, Grand Prix Gold finalist in all three disciplines. She won the women's doubles title at the 2012 India Open Grand Prix Gold, then the women's singles title at the 2013 U.S. Open Grand Prix Gold, then was runner-up at the 2014 U.S. Open Grand Prix Gold. With her mixed doubles victory at the 2017 Swiss Open Grand Prix Gold, she did one better and became the first player to win Grand Prix Gold titles in all three disciplines. Taerattanachai and Puavaranukroh won the silver medal at the 2019 BWF World Championships, 2019 World Championships, and a gold medal at the 2021 BWF World Championships, 2021 World Championships. The duo made a clean sweep of all three 2020 Asian Leg titles in Thailand, and all 2021 Bali leg titles and climbed to world number 1 in BWF ranking on 7 December 2021.

Personal life

She graduated from Chulalongkorn University. Sapsiree is nicknamed "Popor". Her knee injury during the 2017 SEA Games Final was a minor speed bump to her long successful career. She has a made a very strong comeback in 2019 by producing extremely good results.

Career

Taerattanachai and her mixed doubles partner Puavaranukroh reached their first ever final at a Superseries event in 2017 Singapore Super Series, 2017 Singapore Open. Taerattanachai and Puavaranukroh competed at the Badminton at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Mixed doubles, 2020 Summer Olympics, but they were eliminated in the quarter-finals.

Achievements

BWF World Championships

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

Asian Championships

''Mixed doubles''

Southeast Asian Games

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

Youth Olympic Games

''Girls' singles''

BWF World Junior Championships

''Women's doubles''

Asian Junior Championships

''Girls' singles'' ''Girls' doubles''

BWF World Tour (14 titles, 8 runners-up)

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, and the BWF Tour Super 100. ''Women's doubles'' '' Mixed doubles''

BWF Superseries (1 runner-up)

The BWF Superseries, which was launched on 14 December 2006 and implemented in 2007, was a series of elite badminton tournaments, sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation (BWF). BWF Superseries levels were BWF Superseries, Superseries and Superseries Premier. A season of Superseries consisted of twelve tournaments around the world that had been introduced since 2011. Successful players were invited to the Superseries Finals, which were held at the end of each year. ''Mixed doubles'' : BWF Superseries Finals tournament : BWF Superseries, BWF Superseries Premier tournament : BWF Superseries tournament

BWF Grand Prix (4 titles, 9 runners-up)

The BWF Grand Prix had two levels, the BWF Grand Prix and Grand Prix Gold, 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. ''Women's singles'' ''Women's doubles'' ''Mixed doubles'' : BWF Grand Prix Gold and Grand Prix, BWF Grand Prix Gold tournament : BWF Grand Prix Gold and Grand Prix, BWF Grand Prix tournament

BWF International Challenge/Series (3 titles, 2 runners-up)

''Women's singles'' ''Women's doubles'' : BWF International Challenge tournament : BWF International Series tournament

Performance timeline

National team

* ''Junior level'' * ''Senior level''

Individual competitions

Junior level

* ''Girls' singles'' * ''Girls' doubles'' * ''Mixed doubles''

Senior level

= Women's singles

= Women's doubles

= Mixed doubles

References

External links

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