Rutaparna Panda

Rutaparna Panda
Personal information
Country	India
Born	(1999-05-07) 7 May 1999 (age 25) Nayabazar, Cuttack, Odisha, India
Women's & mixed doubles
Highest ranking	33 (WD with Swetaparna Panda, 21 January 2025) 101 (XD, 12 November 2019)
Current ranking	33 (WD with Swetaparna Panda, 21 January 2025)
BWF profile

Rutaparna Panda (born 7 May 1999) is an Indian badminton player from Odisha. ^[1] She was selected to be part of the Indian team for the 2018 Asian Games. ^{[2] [3] [4]} Here, she and her partner Arathi Sara Sunil were defeated in the round of 32 by the Thai doubles team. In July 2018, she won the women's doubles title at the All-India senior ranking badminton tournament in Bengaluru. ^[5] She earlier trained at the Gopichand Badminton Academy at Hyderabad and currently trains with her sister and current doubles partner Swetaparna Panda at Cuttack. ^{[6] [7]}

Achievements

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

Women's doubles

Year	Tournament	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2018	Hellas Open	Arathi Sara Sunil	Vimala Hériau Margot Lambert	21–19, 21–12	Winner
2019	Ghana International	K. Maneesha	Dorcas Ajoke Adesokan Uchechukwu Deborah Ukeh	21–11, 21–11	Winner
2019	Nepal International	K. Maneesha	Setyana Mapasa Gronya Somerville	10–21, 21–18, 11–21	Runner-up
2019	Bangladesh International	K. Maneesha	Pearly Tan Thinaah Muralitharan	20–22, 19–21	Runner-up
2021	India International Challenge	Tanisha Crasto	Treesa Jolly Gayathri Gopichand	21–23, 14–21	Runner-up
2022	Réunion Open	Swetaparna Panda	Annabella Jäger Leona Michalski	21–13, 18–21, 18–21	Runner-up
2023	Kazakhstan Future Series	Swetaparna Panda	Nethania Irawan Fuyu Iwasaki	13–21, 15–21	Runner-up
2023	Tajikistan International	Swetaparna Panda	Era Maftuha Hajar Nuriyeva	21–3, 21–7	Winner
2023	Cameroon International	Swetaparna Panda	Husina Kobugabe Gladys Mbabazi	21–16, 21–8	Winner
2023	Kampala International	Swetaparna Panda	Aleena Qathun Nayonika Rajesh	21–9, 21–14	Winner
2023	Uganda International	Swetaparna Panda	Fadilah Mohamed Rafi Tracy Naluwooza	21–13, 21–8	Winner
2024	Sri Lanka International	Swetaparna Panda	Pichamon Phatcharaphisutsin Nannapas Sukklad	12–21, 14–21	Runner-up

Mixed doubles

Year	Tournament	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2019	Ghana International	Ramchandran Shlok	Arjun M.R. K. Maneesha	21–19, 21–15	Winner
2019	Lagos International	Ramchandran Shlok	Arjun M.R. K. Maneesha	16–21, 17–21	Runner-up

  BWF International Challenge tournament

  BWF International Series tournament

  BWF Future Series tournament

References

1. "Rutaparna Panda". Orisports. Retrieved 12 December 2023.
2. "Badminton: Srikanth, Sindhu lead 20-member squad for Asian Games". The Times of India . 27 June 2018. Retrieved 27 July 2018.
3. "Asian Games 2018: Here's the list of Indian squads". Mumbai Mirror. 26 July 2018. Retrieved 27 July 2018.
4. "Odisha's budding shuttler Rutuparna eyes for Olympics". Odisha Sun Times. 9 August 2017. Archived from the original on 22 August 2018. Retrieved 27 July 2018.
5. "Shuttler Rutuparna Panda speaks about her expectation from Asian Games". www.eenaduindia.com. Ushodaya Enterprises Pvt. Ltd. 6 August 2018. Retrieved 21 October 2018.
6. Qureshy, Tazeen (14 March 2022). "Panda sisters 2.0: How Rutaparna and Swetaparna are fulfilling their father's 'Dangal' dreams". The Bridge. Retrieved 2 June 2023.
7. "Rutuparna Panda, Swetaparna Panda first sister duo from India to win int'l title". The Bridge. 12 August 2023. Retrieved 12 December 2023.

External links

• Rutaparna Panda at BWFBadminton.com
• Rutaparna Panda at BWF.TournamentSoftware.com (archived)
• Rutaparna Panda at Olympics.com