Sapsiree Taerattanachai
Sapsiree Taerattanachai (Thai: ทรัพย์สิรี แต้รัตนชัย; RTGS::Sapsiri Tae-rattanachai; born 18 April 1992) is a Thai badminton player. She claimed *les in the mixed doubles with Dechapol Puavaranukroh at the 2017 Southeast Asian Games and at the 2021 World Championships. Taerattanachai and Puavaranukroh made history as the first ever Thai pair to win the year-end Finals tournaments, the World Championships *le and rank first in the world ranking.
Taerattanachai competed at the 2010, 2014 and 2018 Asian Games; and at the 2016 and 2020 Summer Olympics. In 2009, she was a semi-finalist in girls' doubles at the World Junior Championships, and the following year, she was runner-up at the Asian Junior Championships. She won gold at the Youth Olympic Games in Singapore. In 2014, Sapsiree became the first player ever to become a Grand Prix Gold finalist in all three disciplines. She won the women's doubles *le at the 2012 India Open Grand Prix Gold, then the women's singles *le 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 *les in all three disciplines.
Taerattanachai and Puavaranukroh won the silver medal at the 2019 World Championships, and a gold medal at the 2021 World Championships. The duo made a clean sweep of all three 2020 Asian Leg *les in Thailand, and all 2021 Bali leg *les and climbed to world number 1 in BWF ranking on 7 December 2021.
Contents
- 1 Personal life
- 2 Career
- 3 Achievements
- 3.1 BWF World Championships
- 3.2 Asian Championships
- 3.3 Southeast Asian Games
- 3.4 Youth Olympic Games
- 3.5 BWF World Junior Championships
- 3.6 Asian Junior Championships
- 3.7 BWF World Tour (12 *les, 6 runners-up)
- 3.8 BWF Superseries (1 runner-up)
- 3.9 BWF Grand Prix (4 *les, 9 runners-up)
- 3.10 BWF International Challenge/Series (3 *les, 2 runners-up)
- 4 Performance timeline
- 4.1 National team
- 4.2 Individual compe*ions
- 4.2.1 Junior level
- 4.2.2 Senior level
- 4.2.2.1 Women's singles
- 4.2.2.2 Women's doubles
- 4.2.2.3 Mixed doubles
- 5 References
- 6 External links
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 partner, Puavaranukroh, competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics, but was eliminated in the quarter-finals.
Achievements
BWF World Championships
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 (12 *les, 6 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 Tours are divided into levels of World Tour Finals, Super:1000, Super:750, Super:500, Super:300 (part of the HSBC World Tour), 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 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 Premier tournament: BWF Superseries tournamentBWF Grand Prix (4 *les, 9 runners-up)
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.
Women's singles
Women's doubles
Mixed doubles
: BWF Grand Prix Gold tournament: BWF Grand Prix tournamentBWF International Challenge/Series (3 *les, 2 runners-up)
Women's singles
Women's doubles
: BWF International Challenge tournament: BWF International Series tournamentPerformance timeline
Key(W) won; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (A) absent; (G) gold, (S) silver or (B) bronze medal; (NH) not held; (N/A) not applicable; (DNQ) did not qualify. To avoid confusion and double counting, these charts are updated at the conclusion of a tournament or when the player's participation has ended.National team
- Junior level
- Senior level
Individual compe*ions
Junior level
- Girls' singles
- Girls' doubles
- Mixed doubles
Senior level
Women's singles
Women's doubles
Mixed doubles
References
External links
- Sapsiree Taerattanachai at BWF.tournamentsoftware.com
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