Career
2012
At the 36th Junior National Badminton Championships in Jaipur, Verma won the boys' singles U-19 category. [2] The same year Verma also reached the final of the Iran Fajr International. [3] He also secured a bronze medal in Asian Junior Championships held in Gimcheon, South Korea in the boys' singles category. He had a world rank #3 in Junior boys' singles.
2013
In 2013, Verma won his first international titles, the men's singles event at the Bahrain International Series and Bahrain International Challenge. [4] [5]
2014
Battling injuries in 2012 and 2013, Verma came back strongly in 2014 by winning the All India Senior Ranking Badminton Championships, in Bareilly. [6] He also bagged the Bahrain International Challenge title defeating Subhankar Dey in a thrilling three setter finals. He also added another title to his name by won the Bahrain International Series against Dinuka Karunaratne in a 1-hour three setter match.
2015
Verma grabbed three major titles in the men's singles category including Tata Open International Challenge held at Mumbai, India, Bahrain International Challenge and Bahrain International Series. He was the runner-up in the Bangladesh and Sri Lanka International Challenge and also a semi-finalist in the Bulgaria International Challenge tournament.
2017
Verma won the Syed Modi International in January 2017 defeating B. Sai Praneeth 21–19 21–16 in the final. [7] He beat the higher ranked Hans-Kristian Vittinghus in the quarter-finals of the same tournament.
2018
In 2018, Verma won the Swiss Open title beating Jan Ø. Jørgensen (21–15, 21–13) in the final. Later in the year he also won the Hyderabad Open a Super 100 event, before defending his title in November beating Lu Guangzu by 16–21, 21–19, 21–14 at the Syed Modi International. With his title finish at his home Super 300 event, he confirmed his qualification for the World Tour Finals, in Guangzhou, standing at the 7th position in the qualification list and where only the top 8 most consistent players across all five disciplines are allowed to compete for the year end finale crown and win a share of $1.5 million. He played the semi-finals of the World Tour Finals as the first Indian male badminton player to secure a position in the World Tour Finals tournament. He stunned Tommy Sugiarto and Kantaphon Wangcharoen in straight sets in the group stage. Verma lost the hard-fought semi-finals against Shi Yuqi of China after leading on match-point in the second set. The thrilling match lasted for an hour and eight minutes, the scores being 21–12, 20–22 and 17–21.
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