Aditya Joshi

Aditya Joshi
Personal information
Country India
Born (1996-08-07) 7 August 1996 (age 27)
ResidenceDhar, Madhya Pradesh, India
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]

Career[edit]

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[edit]

BWF International[edit]

Men's singles
Year Tournament Opponent Score Result
2016 Bahrain International India Pratul Joshi 17–21, 21–12, 15–21 2nd place, silver medalist(s) Runner-up
2017 Ethiopia International Israel Misha Zilberman 7–21, 19–21 2nd place, silver medalist(s) Runner-up
  BWF International Challenge tournament
  BWF International Series tournament
  BWF Future Series tournament

BWF Junior International[edit]

Boys' singles
Year Tournament Opponent Score Result
2011 Ramenskoe Junior International Russia Sergey Sirant 16–21, 18–21 2nd place, silver medalist(s) Runner-up
2013 India Junior International India M. Kanishq 22–20, 21–15 1st place, gold medalist(s) Winner
Boys' doubles
Year Tournament Partner Opponent Score Result
2011 Ramenskoe Junior International India Harsheel Dani Russia Kirill Boyarsky
Russia Dmitry Imankulov
21–19, 18–21, 21–16 1st place, gold medalist(s) Winner
2013 India Junior International India Arun George India M. R. Arjun
India Chirag Shetty
21–17, 21–12 1st place, gold medalist(s) Winner
  BWF Junior International Grand Prix tournament
  BWF Junior International Challenge tournament
  BWF Junior International Series tournament
  BWF Junior Future Series tournament

References[edit]

  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.

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