Aditya Joshi

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Aditya Joshi
Personal information
Born (1996-08-07) 7 August 1996 (age 29)
Sport
CountryFlag of India.svg  India
Sport Badminton
BWF profile

Aditya Joshi (born 7 August 1996) is an Indian badminton player. He is the first male Indian junior badminton player who ranked first place in the world junior rankings. [1] [2]

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Career

Joshi comes from Uttarakhand, India. Joshi got the number one slot in the junior rankings of the World Badminton Federation in January 2014. He was at the 11th position till November 2013, but he managed to jump ahead of all the players by achieving 18,776 points and got top ranked in the world. [3] Joshi was the junior national champion in year 2013 and had won two gold medals in Indian junior international tournament. In 2012 he participated at the India Open Grand Prix Gold.[ citation needed ]

Aditya started playing badminton in 2001 when he was only five and very soon, he started winning in the categories above his age in the local tournaments. He clinched the gold in Remensco Junior International tournament held in Russia in 2011. During the same year, he won a gold medal in Asian Sub-Junior championship held in Japan.[ citation needed ]

Achievements

BWF International

Men's singles
YearTournamentOpponentScoreResult
2016 Bahrain International Flag of India.svg Pratul Joshi 17–21, 21–12, 15–21Silver medal icon.svgRunner-up
2017 Ethiopia International Flag of Israel.svg Misha Zilberman 7–21, 19–21Silver medal icon.svgRunner-up
  BWF International Challenge tournament
  BWF International Series tournament
  BWF Future Series tournament

BWF Junior International

Boys' singles
YearTournamentOpponentScoreResult
2011Ramenskoe Junior International Flag of Russia.svg Sergey Sirant 16–21, 18–21Silver medal icon.svgRunner-up
2013India Junior International Flag of India.svg M. Kanishq 22–20, 21–15Gold medal icon.svgWinner
Boys' doubles
YearTournamentPartnerOpponentScoreResult
2011Ramenskoe Junior International Flag of India.svg Harsheel Dani Flag of Russia.svg Kirill Boyarsky
Flag of Russia.svg Dmitry Imankulov
21–19, 18–21, 21–16Gold medal icon.svgWinner
2013India Junior International Flag of India.svg Arun George Flag of India.svg M. R. Arjun
Flag of India.svg Chirag Shetty
21–17, 21–12Gold medal icon.svgWinner
  BWF Junior International Grand Prix tournament
  BWF Junior International Challenge tournament
  BWF Junior International Series tournament
  BWF Junior Future Series tournament

References

  1. "Aditya Joshi first Indian to be ranked world No.1 in junior badminton". NDTV. 6 January 2014. Archived from the original on 10 January 2014. Retrieved 6 January 2014.
  2. "Aditya Joshi is world's top junior shuttler". The Hindu. 6 January 2014.
  3. "17-yr-old Aditya Joshi becomes World No 1 junior shuttler". First Post. 6 January 2014.