Pradnya Gadre

Last updated

Pradnya Gadre
Personal information
Birth namePradnya Gadre
CountryFlag of India.svg  India
Born (1990-10-17) 17 October 1990 (age 32) [1]
India
Residence Hyderabad, India
HandednessRight
Women's Doubles
Highest ranking26 (9 Aug 2013)
Current ranking29 (15 Aug 2013)
Medal record
Uber Cup
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2014 New Delhi Team
Asian Games
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2014 Incheon Women's team [2]
BWF profile

Pradnya Gadre (born 17 October 1990) is an Indian badminton player from Nashik, Maharashtra who currently plays doubles and mixed doubles. She partners Ashwini Ponnappa for women's doubles events. The other partners she earlier paired up for women's doubles are Jyotshna P, Prajakta Sawant, Nitya Sosale. She is married to Indian badminton player Pranav Chopra. [3] For mixed doubles Events she partners with Akshay Dewalkar, earlier it was Pranaav Jerry Chopra. [4] She is sponsored by Flypower-arbi sports.

Contents

Achievements

BWF International Challenge/Series (7 titles, 2 runners-up)

Women's doubles

YearTournamentPartnerOpponentScoreResult
2015 Lagos International Flag of India.svg N. Sikki Reddy Flag of Turkey.svg Özge Bayrak
Flag of Turkey.svg Neslihan Yiğit
21–19, 21–23, 21–15Gold medal icon.svgWinner
2015 Polish Open Flag of India.svg N. Sikki Reddy Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Alexandra Bruce
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Phyllis Chan
21–16, 21–18Gold medal icon.svgWinner
2014 Bangladesh International Flag of India.svg N. Sikki Reddy Flag of Turkey.svg Özge Bayrak
Flag of Turkey.svg Neslihan Yiğit
21–10, 22–24, 21–16Gold medal icon.svgWinner
2013 Bahrain International Challenge Flag of India.svg N. Sikki Reddy Flag of India.svg Aparna Balan
Flag of India.svg Sanyogita Ghorpade
21–13, 19–21, 21–5Gold medal icon.svgWinner
2013 Tata Open India International Flag of India.svg N. Sikki Reddy Flag of India.svg Jwala Gutta
Flag of India.svg Ashwini Ponnappa
21–19, 21–19Gold medal icon.svgWinner

Mixed doubles

YearTournamentPartnerOpponentScoreResult
2015 Polish Open Flag of India.svg Akshay Dewalkar Flag of Malaysia.svg Chan Peng Soon
Flag of Malaysia.svg Goh Liu Ying
26–28, 18–21Silver medal icon.svgRunner-up
2014 Tata Open India International Flag of India.svg Akshay Dewalkar Flag of India.svg Manu Attri
Flag of India.svg N. Sikki Reddy
19–21, 21–19, 10–21Silver medal icon.svgRunner-up
2014 Sri Lanka International Flag of India.svg Akshay Dewalkar Flag of Malaysia.svg Vountus Indra Mawan
Flag of India.svg Prajakta Sawant
21–16, 21–18Gold medal icon.svgWinner
2013 Tata Open India International Flag of India.svg Akshay Dewalkar Flag of India.svg Tarun Kona
Flag of India.svg Ashwini Ponnappa
21–17, 18–21, 21–18Gold medal icon.svgWinner
  International Challenge tournament
  International Series tournament

See also

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Kamilla Rytter Juhl</span> Danish badminton player

Kamilla Rytter Juhl is a retired Danish badminton player. Juhl is an Olympic silver medalist, World Championship gold medalist and seven times European champion as well.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Yu Yang (badminton)</span> Chinese badminton player

Yu Yang is a retired Chinese badminton player specializing in doubles. She is an Olympic Games gold medalist, three time World Champion and four time Asian Champion. Yu was part of the China winning team in four Sudirman Cup, three Uber Cup, two Asian Games, and in a Asia Team Championships.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jwala Gutta</span> Indian badminton player

Jwala Gutta is an Indian badminton player. Beginning in the late 1990s, she represented India at international events in both mixed and women's doubles. She has a total of 316 match wins in both the disciplines—the most by any Indian—and peaked at no. 6 in the world rankings. Gutta has won medals at numerous tournaments on the BWF circuit including a silver at the 2009 Superseries Masters Finals and a bronze at the 2011 World Championships.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Aparna Balan</span> Indian badminton player (born 1986)

Aparna Balan is an Indian badminton player from Kozhikode, Kerala. She was part of the national team that won the silver medal in 2010 Commonwealth Games, also gold medals in 2004, 2006 and 2010 South Asian Games. She is 6 times National Champion in mixed doubles and 3 times National Champion in women's doubles. She represented India in many international badminton tournaments.

The 2009 India Open Grand Prix also known as Jaypee Cup Syed Modi Memorial India Grand Prix was a badminton tournament which took place at Babu Banarasi Das Indoor Stadium in Lucknow, India from 15 to 20 December 2009. It is the first time this tournament was ranked as BWF Grand Prix event with a total purse of $50,000. It was the last tournament of the 2009 BWF Grand Prix Gold and Grand Prix.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ashwini Ponnappa</span> Indian badminton player

Ashwini Ponnappa Machimanda is an Indian badminton player who represents the country at the international badminton circuit in both the women's and mixed doubles disciplines. She had a successful partnership with Jwala Gutta as the pair has won many medals in international events including a gold medal at the Commonwealth Games and bronze medals at the Uber Cup and the Asian Badminton Championships. They were consistently ranked among the top 20 in the BWF World Ranking reaching as high as no. 10. Ponnappa and Gutta also won the bronze medal at the BWF World Championships in 2011, becoming the first Indian pair and women and only the second overall to win a medal at the World Championships.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Miyuki Maeda</span> Badminton player

Miyuki Maeda is a Japanese international badminton player from the Renesas badminton club and later affiliated with Saishunkan team. She participated at the 2008 and 2012 Olympic Games, and also in three Asian Games editions from 2006 to 2014.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Wang Xiaoli</span> Chinese badminton player

Wang Xiaoli is a Chinese badminton player who is a doubles specialist. In 2012, she competed at the 2012 London Summer Olympics.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Reika Kakiiwa</span> Badminton player

Reika Kakiiwa is a Japanese badminton player from Renesas badminton club. Reika Kakiiwa has gained prominence in the badminton community because of her success in women's doubles. She has reached a career high ranking of third in the world with her partner Mizuki Fujii. She has also competed in mixed doubles reaching a peak ranking of 51st with her partner Kenta Kazuno.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Kim Min-jung (badminton)</span> South Korean badminton player

Kim Min-jung is a badminton player representing South Korea. Her name is sometimes spelled Kim Min-jeong. As a badminton player, Kim has focused on doubles with Ha Jung-eun; together they competed at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. In the past she has been paired with Hwang Ji-man and Yoo Yeon-seong in mixed doubles.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mizuki Fujii</span> Badminton player

Mizuki Fujii is a badminton player from Ashikita, Kumamoto, Japan and plays for the Renesas badminton club. Mizuki Fujii concentrates on doubles badminton. Most of her success has come with women's doubles partner Reika Kakiiwa. Together they reached the final of the 2010 Korea Open Super Series, their first major final as a pair. She also assisted her team in winning the bronze medal at the 2010 Uber Cup. In the mixed doubles she pairs with Hirokatsu Hashimoto. Her career highest achievement was the silver medal in the women's doubles at the 2012 London Summer Olympics with Kakiiwa. She retired from professional badminton after the win at London.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jung Kyung-eun</span> South Korean badminton player

Jung Kyung-eun is a South Korean professional badminton player. She was the 2016 Summer Olympics bronze medalist in the women's doubles event.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Satoko Suetsuna</span> Badminton player

Satoko Suetsuna is a badminton player from Japan. Born in Ōita, Ōita Prefecture, she joined Renesas badminton club and later affiliated with Saishunkan team. She was a bronze medalist at the 2011 BWF World Championships with her partner Miyuki Maeda.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Badminton in India</span>

Badminton is a popular sport in India. It is the second-most played sport in India after Cricket. Badminton in India is managed by the Badminton Association of India.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Prajakta Sawant</span> Indian badminton player

Prajakta Sawant is a badminton player from India. She was the national women's doubles champion in 2010 and 2011 and also won the mixed doubles title in 2010. In 2013, she won the Bangladesh International tournament partnered with Arathi Sara Sunil.

Pranaav Jerry Chopra is an Indian badminton player. He joined the India national badminton team in 2007. In the year 2018, at the Commonwealth Games held in Gold Coast, Queensland, he won the gold medal in mixed team as being a member of the Indian mixed team. He is only the second player from India to reach Top 15 in the World Rankings in Mixed Doubles with his partner.

Jyotshna Polavarapu is an Indian badminton player. She plays both doubles and mixed doubles. She partnered Pradnya Gadre earlier for women's doubles events. She was trained at the Gopichand Badminton Academy, and reached the women's doubles number 3 in the national ranking. She was the runners-up at the national championships in the mixed doubles event in 2006/07, and in the women's doubles in 2010/11.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">N. Sikki Reddy</span> Indian badminton player

Nelakurihi Sikki Reddy is an Indian badminton player who plays doubles and mixed doubles. In 2016, she won the Brazil and Russia Open Grand Prix title in the mixed doubles event partnered with Pranaav Chopra. She and Chopra also won the gold medal at the South Asian Games.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Nitya Krishinda Maheswari</span> Indonesian badminton player

Nitya Krishinda Maheswari Korwa is an Indonesian former badminton player affiliated with Jaya Raya Jakarta, specializing in doubles event. She won the women's doubles gold medals at the 2011 Southeast Asian Games and at the 2014 Asian Games.

Poorvisha S. Ram is an Indian badminton player who specializes in doubles and mixed doubles. As of February 2020, she is ranked 48 in doubles. She had attained career best ranking of 30 in November 2018. She was previously ranked 3 in doubles at national level.

References

  1. BAI website profile
  2. Akaash Dasgupta (27 August 2018). "Asian Games 2018: Historic day for Indian badminton". The Times of India . Retrieved 13 July 2021.
  3. Doubles Partners
  4. Mixed Doubles Partners