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Apriyani Rahayu (born 29 April 1998) is an Indonesian
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player specializing in doubles. She and
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won the gold medal at the
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champions in the women's doubles. She won gold at the
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, and two bronze medals at the
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in 2018 and 2019. Rahayu also won bronze medals at the
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in the women's team and doubles with her former partner Polii. With her current partner, Siti Fadia Silva Ramadhanti, Rahayu won the silver medal at the 2023 World Championships, and a gold at the
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.


Early life

Apriyani Rahayu was born in Lawulo village, a remote settlement in Konawe Regency,
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. She is the youngest child of an agricultural worker named Ameruddin Pora and his wife, Sitti Jauhar. As a child Rahayu would fight with neighborhood boys, and her father encouraged her to devote her energy to badminton instead, which she agreed to. According to Rahayu's cousin, her father served as her trainer, with a training regimen including running 10 kilometers to competitions and practicing on a homemade court behind his house lined with areca nut trees. Pora was self-sufficient but poor. Rahayu used a homemade wooden racquet with fishing line for string, until her father was able to sell enough vegetables to buy a real racquet. However, Pora himself credits Rahayu's mother as providing her with support and training. Sitti Jauhar was an enthusiastic player of badminton, table tennis and volleyball and encouraged Rahayu to be tough and competitive. In 2007, at the age of 9, she represented Konawe Regency in a regional competition. In 2011, at the age of 13, she was scouted by Yuslan Kisra who brought her in contact with
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who recruited her to his club PB Pelita Bakri (now ISTC) and later on PB Jaya Raya Jakarta for international level play. Sitti Jauhar died in 2015 while Apriyani was at a championship in Peru, but she played through after hearing the news, winning two medals.


Career


Junior career

Practiced at the Pelita Bakrie club, Rahayu was able to excel in national junior tournaments, so that she and her partner, Jauza Fadhila Sugiarto, were able to top the U17 girls' doubles national rankings in 2013. At the beginning of 2013, Rahayu was also called to train at the national training center, but the club had not given permission yet. In 2014, Rahayu and Sugiarto managed to win the Jaya Raya Junior International tournament in August. Then at the World Junior Championships, she won the silver medal partnering
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. In 2015, Rahayu won the bronze medals in the Asian and World Junior Championships in the mixed doubles event partnered with Fachryza Abimanyu. At the age of 17, Rahayu also managed to win the women's doubles international senior title in
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with Sugiarto, and finished as mixed doubles runner-up in the Indonesia International Series with Panji Akbar Sudrajat. In 2016, Rahayu who was paired with Rinov Rivaldy in the mixed doubles won the bronze medal at the Asian Junior Championships. They then clinched a Junior Grand Prix title in the Jaya Raya Junior International tournament. At the Indonesia International Series in Surabaya, Rahayu claimed double title by winning the mixed and women's doubles event.


2017: French Open and Thailand Open title

In May, Rahayu partnered with her senior and mentor
Greysia Polii Greysia Polii (; born 11 August 1987) is an Indonesian badminton player specializing in doubles. She won gold medals in the women's doubles at the 2014 Asian Games, at the 2019 SEA Games and at the 2020 Summer Olympics. She also won three bro ...
, and they competed as a new pair at the
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in Gold Coast, Australia. Even though they had only been paired for about a month, the duo won their first title in the Thailand Open after defeating the home pair
Chayanit Chaladchalam Chayanit Chaladchalam (; born 8 March 1991) is a Thai badminton player. She was part of Thai squad that won gold medal at the 2019 Philippines SEA Games. Career She plays in the women's doubles with her partner Phataimas Muenwong. Together th ...
and
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in straight games 21–12, 21–12 in the final. They also won the Superseries title at the
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, just five months into their partnership. Other achievements by Polii and Rahayu in 2017 were runner-up in
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, semi-finalists in
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, and quarter-finalists in Korea Open. Rahayu also helped the Indonesia women's team win the bronze medal at the
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held in Kuala Lumpur, In the individual women's doubles event, she and Polii lost in the first round to eventual champion
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and
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of Thailand. The Polii and Rahayu partnership, first paired in May, reached a career high as world number 10 in the BWF World rankings in November.


2018: India Open and third Thailand Open title

In January, Rahayu and Polii began the season by finishing as runners-up in the
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, losing to second seeded
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and
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in the final. A month later, the duo played as the third seeds in the
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and won the title after beating the first-seeded
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and
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in the semi-finals, and the second-seeded
Jongkolphan Kititharakul Jongkolphan Kititharakul (; born 1 March 1993) is a Thai badminton player who specialized in doubles. She was the women's doubles gold medalist at the 2017 SEA Games, also part of the team that clinched the women's team gold medals in 2015, 2017 ...
and
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in the final. She featured in the Indonesian women's team that won bronze at the Asia Team Championships held in
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and were quarter-finalists in the
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in Bangkok. In July, she and her partner lost in the quarter-finals of the Indonesia Open to
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and
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, but a week later, she won her second Thailand Open title, as she and Polii defended the title they had won in Thailand the previous year, when the event was known as the Grand Prix. In August, Rahayu and Polii won the bronze medal at the
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in Nanjing, and further bronze medals at the
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in the women's doubles and team events. In the remainder of the 2018 tour, she and Polii only reached the semi-finals in
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,
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, French,
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, and quarter-finals in the Fuzhou China Open. The duo achieved their career high as world number 3 in the BWF rankings in September.


2019: Second India Open title, first SEA Games gold

Rahayu opened the 2019 season as a finalist in the
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with Polii. In the semi-finals, they beat their arch-rivals
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and
Ayaka Takahashi is a retired Japanese badminton player who was affiliated with Unisys badminton team. She is an Olympic Games gold medalist, two-time Asian Champion, two-time Asian Games silver medalist, and World Championship bronze medalist. Playing for the ...
in a close rubber game, improving their head-to-head record against the Japanese pair to 2–8. A week later, they again lost to Matsutomo and Takahashi in the
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. They led 18–10 in the first game, but lost it 20–22, eventually losing the match in a close rubber game. In March, she and Polii lost in the quarter-finals of both the
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and All England Open. Polii and Rahayu then clinched their second
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title defeating
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and
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in the final. In May, she alongside the Indonesia team finished as semi-finalists in the
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in Nanning, settling for the bronze medal. In June, she and Polii advanced to the semi-finals of the
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after beating the first seeded, world number one
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and
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in the quarter-finals, but the duo were beaten by Chinese pair
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and Jia Yifan, the fifth defeat in seven meetings between them. At the
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in Basel, Switzerland, she and her partner won the bronze medal, after defeat in the semi-finals to eventual champions Matsumoto and Nagahara. After the World Championships, her coach, Eng Hian, evaluated that she and Rahayu had fallen short of their previous standard. In the end of 2019 season, their best results were only the semi-finalists in
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, after that, they often lost in the initial stage. She finally won her first women's doubles gold medal at the
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. She and Polii defeated
Chayanit Chaladchalam Chayanit Chaladchalam (; born 8 March 1991) is a Thai badminton player. She was part of Thai squad that won gold medal at the 2019 Philippines SEA Games. Career She plays in the women's doubles with her partner Phataimas Muenwong. Together th ...
and
Phataimas Muenwong Phataimas Muenwong (; born 5 July 1995) is a Thai badminton player. Career Muenwong studied at the Rattana Bundit University, and competed at the 2015 and 2017 Summer Universiade. She plays in the women's doubles with her partner Chayanit Cha ...
of Thailand 21–3, 21–18.


2020: Home soil title

In 2020, Rahayu and Polii who ranked as world number eight started their tour in the
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. At that tournament, they finished as semi-finalists defeated by Chinese pair Li Wenmei and Zheng Yu in a rubber game. A week later in the
Indonesia Masters The Indonesia Masters is an international badminton tournament in BWF World Tour Super 500. Formerly known as the Indonesia Open Grand Prix Gold, it was first held in 2010 in Samarinda, East Kalimantan, and change its venue in different cities ev ...
, Rahayu won her first ever international title in Indonesia, after she and Polii triumphed in a thrilling match against
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and Sara Thygesen of Denmark. In February, she won her second title of the year by winning the Barcelona Spain Masters. In the final, she and Polii defeated
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of Bulgaria in a rubber game. In March All England Open, she and her partner lost in the first round to Korean pair Chang Ye-na and Kim Hye-rin in straight games. Due to the
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, numerous tournaments on the 2020 BWF World Tour were either cancelled or rescheduled for later in the year.


2021–2022: Olympic Games gold medal and new partner

Rahayu returned in the international competitions at the 2020 Asian Leg tournament in January 2021. Together with Polii, she won her first ever BWF Super 1000 tournament, the Yonex Thailand Open. A week later in the semi-finals of the Toyota Thailand Open, Rahayu and Polii fell in two games to
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and
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of South Korea. The duo then played at the World Tour Finals, but was eliminated in the group stage. In March 2021, Rahayu scheduled to participating at the All England Open, but later Indonesia team were forced to withdraw from the competition by BWF after the team members will self-isolate for 10 days from the date of their inbound flight after an anonym person traveling onboard tested positive for
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. On 2 August 2021, at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics she partnered with
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in the women's doubles. In the finals they defeated 2017 world champion
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and Jia Yifan. They became the first unseeded pair to win the gold medal in women's doubles. This was Indonesia's first Olympic gold in women's doubles. She and Polii are the third and fourth Indonesian women to win Olympic gold after
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in 1992 and
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in 2016. Rahayu and Polii's win made Indonesia the only country outside of China to have won gold medals in all five disciplines of
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. After her Olympic success, the Student Sports Training Center in Jakarta was named after her and Greysia Polii. In September–October 2021, Rahayu alongside the Indonesian team competed at the 2021 Sudirman Cup in Vantaa, Finland. She played two match in the group stage against Canada and Denmark. Indonesia advanced to the knockout stage but lost at the quarterfinals against Malaysia. In November 2021, Rahayu and Polii lost the finals of the 2021 Indonesia Open. In May 2022, at the
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, she started her journey with new partner, Siti Fadia Silva Ramadhanti. The duo clinched the gold medal in the women's doubles after beating the Thai pair of
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and
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in the final. This new pair immediately showed satisfying results, by winning the
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and Singapore Opens, and became finalists in the
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.


2023: World Champions silver and first ever Indonesian women's doubles to win the Hong Kong Open

In the first half of 2023 season, Rahayu, who competed on the BWF Tour together with Siti Fadia Silva Ramadhanti, was unable to win a single title. Their best performance were reaching the semi-finals at the Malaysia Open in January, and at the Swiss Open in March. In both tournaments, they were unable to finish the match due to injury. In Malaysia, her partner, Ramadhanti suffered a right ankle injury; and then in Switzerland, Rahayu suffered a right shoulder injury. In addition, they became quarter-finalists in the
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, All England Open,
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, and at the Indonesia Open. The poor record experienced by Rahayu and Ramadhanti were when they lost in the early rounds at the Asian Championships in
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, to Thai pair
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and
Nuntakarn Aimsaard Nuntakarn Aimsaard (; born 23 May 1999) is a Thai badminton player. Aimsaard entered the international badminton circuit in 2015. She was part of the Thailand team that won the mixed team bronze medal at the 2017 Summer Universiade. She won her ...
, in the
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and Singapore Opens to
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and
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. Rahayu also join national team to compete at the Asia Mixed Team Championships and
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, but the teams stopped in the quarter-finals to South Korea and China respectively. The Rahayu-Ramadhanti partnership then reached their career high as world number 4 in the BWF ranking which was released on 18 April 2023. In August, Rahayu and Ramadhanti reached the final at the
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in Copenhagen. The duo won a silver medal after being defeated by 1st seed
Chen Qingchen Chen Qingchen (; born 23 June 1997) is a Chinese badminton player who specializes in doubles. She is an Olympic champion, four-time World Champion, two-time Asian Games gold medalist, and two-time Asian Champion. With partner Jia Yifan, Che ...
and Jia Yifan in straight games. The duo then won their first ever title of the year in the Hong Kong Open, and made a history as the first ever women's doubles from Indonesia to win the Hong Kong Open title since the inception in 1982. She then made her second appearance at the Asian Games in 2022 Hangzhou, but unable to win any medals in both women's doubles and team events. She suffered a right calf injury while competing in the individual event, and decided to retire from the competition.


2024

She was selected as a member of the Indonesian women's team at the
Uber Cup The Uber Cup, sometimes called the World Women's Team Championships, is a major international badminton competition contested by women's national badminton teams. First held in 1956–1957 and contested at three year intervals, it has been contes ...
in May, and made history by reaching the final at the Uber Cup since 2008. In the final Indonesia lost to China 0–3.


Awards and nominations


Achievements


Olympic Games

''Women's doubles''


World Championships

''Women's doubles''


Asian Games

''Women's doubles''


SEA Games

''Women's doubles''


World Junior Championships

''Girls' doubles'' ''Mixed doubles''


Asian Junior Championships

''Mixed doubles''


BWF World Tour (9 titles, 5 runners-up)

The BWF World Tour, which was announced on 19 March 2017 and implemented in 2018, is a series of elite badminton tournaments sanctioned by the
Badminton World Federation The Badminton World Federation, aka BWF, is the international governing body for the sport of badminton approved by the International Olympic Committee. It was founded on 5 July 1934 as the International Badminton Federation with nine member ...
(BWF). The BWF World Tour is divided into levels of World Tour Finals, Super 1000, Super 750, Super 500, Super 300, and the BWF Tour Super 100. ''Women's doubles''


BWF Superseries (1 title, 1 runner-up)

The BWF Superseries, which was launched on 14 December 2006 and implemented in 2007, was a series of elite badminton tournaments, sanctioned by the
Badminton World Federation The Badminton World Federation, aka BWF, is the international governing body for the sport of badminton approved by the International Olympic Committee. It was founded on 5 July 1934 as the International Badminton Federation with nine member ...
(BWF). BWF Superseries levels were Superseries and Superseries Premier. A season of Superseries consisted of twelve tournaments around the world that had been introduced since 2011. Successful players were invited to the Superseries Finals, which were held at the end of each year. ''Women's doubles'' : BWF Superseries Finals tournament : BWF Superseries Premier tournament :
BWF Superseries The BWF Super Series was a series of Grade 2 badminton tournaments, sanctioned by Badminton World Federation (BWF). It was launched on December 14, 2006 and implemented in 2007. Since 2011, the Super Series includes two levels of tournament, S ...
tournament


BWF Grand Prix (1 title)

The BWF Grand Prix had two levels, the Grand Prix and Grand Prix Gold. It was a series of badminton tournaments sanctioned by the
Badminton World Federation The Badminton World Federation, aka BWF, is the international governing body for the sport of badminton approved by the International Olympic Committee. It was founded on 5 July 1934 as the International Badminton Federation with nine member ...
(BWF) and played between 2007 and 2017. ''Women's doubles'' : BWF Grand Prix Gold tournament : BWF Grand Prix tournament


BWF International Challenge/Series (3 titles, 1 runner-up)

''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


BWF Junior International (2 titles)

''Girls' doubles'' ''Mixed doubles'' : BWF Junior International Grand Prix tournament : BWF Junior International Challenge tournament : BWF Junior International Series tournament : BWF Junior Future Series tournament


Performance timeline


National team

* ''Junior level'' * ''Senior level''


Individual competitions


Junior level

''Girls' doubles'' ''Mixed doubles''


Senior level


=Women's doubles

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=Mixed doubles

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Record against selected opponents

Record against year-end Finals finalists, World Championships semi-finalists, and Olympic quarter-finalists. Accurate as of 13 August 2024.


Greysia Polii


Siti Fadia Silva Ramadhanti


Notes


References


External links

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Apriyani Rahayu
at the
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Rahayu, Apriyani 1998 births Living people People from Konawe Regency Sportspeople from Southeast Sulawesi Indonesian female badminton players Badminton players at the 2020 Summer Olympics Badminton players at the 2024 Summer Olympics Olympic badminton players for Indonesia Olympic gold medalists for Indonesia Olympic medalists in badminton Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Badminton players at the 2018 Asian Games Badminton players at the 2022 Asian Games Asian Games bronze medalists for Indonesia Asian Games medalists in badminton Medalists at the 2018 Asian Games Competitors at the 2017 SEA Games Competitors at the 2019 SEA Games Competitors at the 2021 SEA Games SEA Games gold medalists for Indonesia SEA Games silver medalists for Indonesia SEA Games bronze medalists for Indonesia SEA Games medalists in badminton