Andra Whiteside (born 6 December 1989) is a Fijian
squash and
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.
She has represented Fiji in badminton at the
2006,
2018 Commonwealth Games
The 2018 Commonwealth Games, officially known as the XXI Commonwealth Games and also known as Gold Coast 2018, was an international multi-sport event for members of the Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth that were held on the Gold Coast, ...
and at the
2007
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,
2011, and
2019 Pacific Games
The 2019 Pacific Games was the sixteenth edition of the Pacific Games. The Games were held in Apia, Samoa, returning there for the first time since 2007. It was the third time overall that the Pacific Games were held in Samoa.
The event was init ...
. She also represented Fiji in squash at the
2015 Pacific Games
The 2015 Pacific Games, also known as Port Moresby 2015 or POM 2015, was held in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, from 4 to 18 July 2015. It was the fifteenth staging of the Pacific Games as well as the third to be hosted in Port Moresby.
More tha ...
.
She plays as the third singles against Tahiti, helps the team to clinched the bronze medal.
On 3 September 2014, Whiteside won the National Squash Championships as her first major squash appearance, defeating Sharon Wild three to nothing. In September 2016, she won three National Badminton Championships titles in Suva's Yat Sen Hall for women's singles, women's doubles with her sister, Karen Whiteside, against Chloe Kumar and Shannon Quai Hoi, and the mixed doubles A-grade with Jason Low against Martin Feussner and Sina Quai Hoi. Some time in that year, she began to train newer badminton players and coach them, and played against Danielle Whiteside, her cousin, on 25 June 2016 in the Woman's A Singles for that year, defeating her.
In 2009, Whiteside was nominated by the Fiji Badminton Association and selected by FASANOC to join Peter Taylor as representatives of Fiji for the 2008 Olympic Youth Camp, held from 5–19 August 2008.
Achievements
Pacific Games
''Women's singles''
''Women's doubles''
''Mixed doubles''
BWF International Challenge/Series
''Women's singles''
'Women's 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
The Badminton ...
tournament
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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.
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tournament
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BWF Future Series
The BWF Future Series is a grade 3 and level 3 tournaments part of Continental Circuit of BWF tournaments along with International Challenge (level 1) and International Series (level 2), sanctioned by Badminton World Federation (BWF) since 2007. ...
tournament
References
External links
Andra Whitesideat melbourne2006.com.au
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Living people
1989 births
Sportspeople from Suva
Fijian female badminton players
Badminton players at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
Badminton players at the 2006 Commonwealth Games
Commonwealth Games competitors for Fiji
Fijian female squash players