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.

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. 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
2016Bahrain InternationalIndia Pratul Joshi17–21, 21–12, 15–21Runner-up
2017Ethiopia InternationalIsrael Misha Zilberman7–21, 19–21Runner-up

BWF International Challenge tournament

BWF International Series tournament

BWF Future Series tournament

BWF Junior International

Boys' singles
YearTournamentOpponentScoreResult
2011Ramenskoe Junior InternationalRussia Sergey Sirant16–21, 18–21Runner-up
2013India Junior InternationalIndia M. Kanishq22–20, 21–15Winner
Boys' doubles
YearTournamentPartnerOpponentScoreResult
2011Ramenskoe Junior InternationalIndia Harsheel DaniRussia Kirill Boyarsky Russia Dmitry Imankulov21–19, 18–21, 21–16Winner
2013India Junior InternationalIndia Arun GeorgeIndia M. R. Arjun India Chirag Shetty21–17, 21–12Winner

BWF Junior International Grand Prix tournament

BWF Junior International Challenge tournament

BWF Junior International Series tournament

BWF Junior Future Series tournament

External links

  • at BWF.TournamentSoftware.com (archived)