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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 at Huelva. Seeds The seeding list is based on the 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)'' Kenta Nishimoto ''(second round)'' Kantaphon Wangcharoen Kantaphon Wangcharoen (; 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 af ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Palacio De Los Deportes Carolina Marín
Palacio (''palace'') is a Spanish habitational name. It may have originated from many places in Spain, especially in Galicia and Asturias. Notable people with the surname include: *Agustina Palacio de Libarona (1825–1880), Argentine writer, storyteller, heroine *Alberto Palacio, engineer *Alfredo Palacio (1939–2025), Ecuadorian cardiologist and politician, president of Ecuador (2005–2007) *Andy Palacio, Belizean musician *Emilio Palacio, Ecuadorian journalist *Ernesto Palacio, opera singer *Héctor Palacio, Colombian road racing cyclist *Milt Palacio Milton Sigmund Palacio (born February 7, 1978) is a Belizean American professional basketball coach and former player. Early life Palacio, a Belizean citizen, was born and raised in Los Angeles, California by Belizean parents. College career P ..., basketball player * R. J. Palacio, American writer of the 2012 children's novel ''Wonder'' * Rodrigo Palacio, footballer See also * Palacios (other) References {{ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kanta Tsuneyama
was a Japanese badminton player from Kusatsu, Shiga Prefecture. He reached a career-high ranking of world number 10 in men's singles. During his career, Tsuneyama won several BWF World Tour titles, including the 2018 Thailand Open, the 2019 Korea Masters, and the 2021 French Open. He was also part of the Japanese teams that won silver at the 2018 Thomas Cup and bronze medals at the 2018 and 2022 Asian Games. Tsuneyama officially retired on 22 August 2024. He has since been appointed as the coach for the Hokuto Bank Women's Badminton Team, starting in the 2025 season. Early career Tsuneyama began playing badminton at the age of six, influenced by his parents, who were former corporate badminton players in Japan. He attended Kusatsu Elementary School and Kusatsu Junior High School. While in junior high school, he placed in the top four at the 2011 All Japan Junior High School Championships. He later attended Higashi Osaka University Kashiwara High School, known for ... [...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. Partnered with his brother Christo Popov, he won the men's doubles gold at the 2025 European Championships. He competed at the 2018 Mediterranean Games and claimed the men's singles bronze medal. In the juniors, Popov 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. Early and 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. He started to play when he was 8 with neighbour and won his school championship at age of 9. Both of them trained at the Fos-sur-Mer club. Achievements ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nhat Nguyen
Nhat Nguyen (, ; born 16 June 2000) is a Vietnamese-born Irish badminton player. Biography Nguyen was born in the suburbs of Hanoi, Vietnam and moved to Cavan, Ireland with his parents and older sister, when he was six years old. He began representing Ireland internationally when he received his Irish passport and citizenship in 2017; before that he was unable to travel outside Ireland to compete overseas. He was the gold medalist at the 2016 European U17 Championships in the boys' singles event, and also won bronze in the doubles event partnered with Paul Reynolds. In 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, and the men's singles title at the Welsh International after that. He is the younger brother of Ireland's first European Weightlifting Championships medalist, Tham Nguyen Gough. Achievements European ... [...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, 6 runners-up) ''Men's singles'' ''Men's doubles'' ''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 p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cheam June Wei
Cheam June Wei ( zh, t=詹俊為, p=Zhān Jùnwéi; born 23 January 1997) is a Malaysian badminton player. He was the mixed doubles gold medalist at the Badminton at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics, 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. 2012 In July, Cheam won the mixed team bronze medal at the 2012 Asian Junior Badminton Championships, Asia Junior Championships in Gimcheon, South Korea. 2014 In 2014, Cheam was promoted to join the Badminton Association of Malaysia, national team from the Bukit Jalil Sports School. In March, he was the runner-up at Gerrman Junior. In August, he competed at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics and clinched the mixed doubles title with his partner from Hong Kong, Ng Tsz Yau. In September, he finished as the runner-up at the 2014 Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kevin Cordón
Kevin Haroldo Cordón Buezo (born 28 November 1986) is a Guatemalan badminton player. He won two men's singles titles at the Badminton at the Pan American Games, Pan American Games, four titles at the Pan Am Badminton Championships, Pan Am Championships (3 in singles and 1 in doubles), and six titles at the Central American and Caribbean Games (4 in singles and 2 in doubles). He is a five-time Olympian for Guatemala participating at the Badminton at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's singles, 2008, Badminton at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's singles, 2012, Badminton at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's singles, 2016, Badminton at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's singles, 2020 and the Badminton at the 2024 Summer Olympics – Men's singles, 2024 Olympic Games. Career Born in La Unión, Zacapa, La Unión, Zacapa, Cordón was named after former England international association football, footballer Kevin Keegan, of whom his father was a fan. In spite of badminton not being ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joran Kweekel
Joran, Jöran or Jøran is a masculine given name. Bearers include: * Jöran Hägglund (born 1959), Swedish politician * Jöran Jermas, an alias of Israel Shamir (born 1947 or 1948), Swedish writer, journalist, and promoter of antisemitism and Holocaust denial * Jøran Kallmyr (born 1978), Norwegian politician and jurist, former Minister of Justice * Jöran Nordberg (1677–1744), Swedish historian * Jöran Persson (c. 1530–1568), King Eric XIV of Sweden's most trusted counsellor and head of the king's network of spies * Joran Pot (born 1989), Dutch footballer and coach * Joran Swart (born 1998), Dutch footballer * Joran van der Sloot (born 1987), Dutch convicted murderer and suspected serial killer * Joran Vliegen (born 1993), Belgian tennis player * Joran Wyseure (born 2001), Belgian cyclist See also * Goran (other) Goran may refer to: Ethnic groups *Gorane, or Goran, an ethnic group of northern Africa *Goran (Kurdish tribe), an ethnic group of the Middle East *Goran ... [...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 21st-century Polish sportsmen {{Poland-badminton-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kantaphon Wangcharoen
Kantaphon Wangcharoen (; 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 SEA 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 and published the offensive video clip on his personal Instag ... [...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] |
