Sannatasah Saniru (born 15 May 1990) is a

badminton Badminton is a racquet sport played using racket (sports equipment), racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net (device), net. Although it may be played with larger teams, the most common forms of the game are "singles" (with one player per s ...

player from

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. Her brother, Vountus Indra Mawan also a former Malaysia national player.

Career

Saniru was accepted at the

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at the age of 13, then she join the Malaysia national team. In 2008, she won the mixed team bronze at the Asian and World Junior Championships, and in 2009, she won the women' team gold at the

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. In 2010, she was selected to compete at the

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, and also Guangzhou Asian Games. She quits the national team in 2013, and started to playing under the Suruhanjaya Perkhidamtan badminton club. She stated in her resignation letter that she did not get as many opportunities as the other players to compete, and there had been no improvement in her game. In 2015, she took part at the

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, South Korea, and won a bronze medal in the mixed team event.

Achievements

BWF International Challenge/Series (1 title, 5 runners-up)

''Women's singles'' ''Women's doubles'' ''Mixed doubles'' :

BWF International Challenge The BWF International Challenge is a grade 3 and level 1 tournament part of Continental Circuit of BWF tournaments along with International Series (level 2) and Future Series (level 3), sanctioned by Badminton World Federation (BWF) since 2007. ...

tournament :

BWF International Series The BWF International Series is a grade 3 and level 2 tournament part of Continental Circuit of BWF tournaments along with International Challenge (level 1) and Future Series (level 3), sanctioned by Badminton World Federation (BWF) since 2007. ...

tournament

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Saniru, Sannatasah 1990 births Living people Sportspeople from Sabah Malaysian sportspeople of Indian descent Malaysian female badminton players Badminton players at the 2010 Asian Games Asian Games badminton players for Malaysia Competitors at the 2009 SEA Games SEA Games gold medalists for Malaysia SEA Games medalists in badminton FISU World University Games bronze medalists for Malaysia Summer World University Games medalists in badminton Medalists at the 2015 Summer Universiade 21st-century Malaysian sportswomen