Dejan Ferdinansyah

Dejan Ferdinansyah (born 21 January 2000) is an Indonesian badminton player who is affiliated with the Djarum club.

Career

Ferdinansyah has been affiliated with the PB Djarum club since 2019. In that same year, he partnered with Serena Kani and reached the final of the South Australia International. In 2020, they lost in the second round of the Thailand Masters. In 2021, they reached the quarter-finals of the 2021 Spain Masters. In December, they competed in the 2021 BWF World Championships. They were the only Indonesians to compete in that edition of the championships after the Indonesian team announced their withdrawal from the championships.

2022

In 2022, Ferdinansyah formed a new partnership with Gloria Emanuelle Widjaja, who had previously left the national team. In March, they played in All England Open and lost in second round to four seeds and eventual winners Yuta Watanabe and Arisa Higashino of Japan. In the next tour, Swiss Open, they lost in first round. In May, they lost in the second round of Thailand Open from four seeds Wang Yilyu and Huang Dongping of China.

They won their first title as a pair in the Denmark Masters, and then clinched the home soil title in the Yogyakarta Indonesia International Series. They later won their third consecutive title as a pair at the Vietnam Open where they defeat their compatriots Rehan Naufal Kusharjanto and Lisa Ayu Kusumawati in two games. In mid October, they clinched their fourth consecutive title by winning the Malang Indonesia International Challenge tournament. Their winning streak was then stopped by the Chinese pair Jiang Zhenbang and Wei Yaxin in the semi-finals of the Indonesia Masters Super 100, and their ranking shot to the top 50 in the world. In mid November, they reach the semi-finals of the Australian Open. They reached the career-highest ranking of 20 in the final weeks of 2022.

2023

In January, Ferdinansyah with Widjaja reached the semi-finals in the Malaysia Open. In the next tournament, they lost in the second round of the India Open from Japanese pair Kyohei Yamashita and Naru Shinoya. They competed in the home tournament, Indonesia Masters, but unfortunately lost in the quarter-finals from Japanese pair Yuki Kaneko and Misaki Matsutomo. They reached the career-highest ranking of 15 in the final weeks of January 2023. In the next tournament, they lost in the quarter-finals of the Thailand Masters from 6th seed Chinese pair Feng Yanzhe and Olympic champion Huang Dongping.

In March, Ferdinansyah and Widjaja competed in the European tour, but they had to accept early round defeats in the German Open, All England Open, and in the Swiss Open. In late April, Ferdinansyah and Widjaja competed at the Asian Championships in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. They finished as semi-finalists, thus earn their first medal at the Asian Championships. Ferdinansyah was selected to join the Indonesian squad at the 2023 Sudirman Cup in Suzhou, China. He lost a match in the group stage, against Dechapol Puavaranukroh and Sapsiree Taerattanachai of Thailand. Indonesia advanced to the knockout stage but lost at the quarter-finals against China.

Ferdinansyah and Widjaja partnership again had to accept defeats in the early rounds in the Malaysia Masters, Singapore, Indonesia, Korea, Japan, and Australian Opens, as well at the World Championships. They then ended their losing streak in the early rounds by entering the final round in Kaohsiung Masters, finishing on the podium as runners-up. The duo finally won their first title of the year in the Syed Modi International, and closed the year as World number 14.

2024

Competing as an independent player, Ferdinansyah and his partner Widjaja not yet able to show their toughness in the international stage. Their best achievement in the first semester of 2024 were as quarter-finalists in the Thailand Masters, All England Open, Thailand Open, Malaysia Masters, and at the Indonesia Open. In September, they reached the semi-finals in the China Open, led him to 11th place in the world as his best ranking. The duo then reached the final in the Macau Open, finished as runner-up to Chinese pairing Guo Xinwa and Chen Fanghui.

2025

Ferdinansyah was called to the national training camp, starting new partnership with two times World Junior Championship's silver medalist, Siti Fadia Silva Ramadhanti. They began to debut on India Open but lost at the second round to Jiang Zhenbang and Wei Yaxin from China. They became runner-up in the Thailand Masters, defeated by the home pair Dechapol Puavaranukroh and Supissara Paewsampran. Ferdinansyah competed at Asia Mixed Team Championships in which Indonesia first time finished as champion since 2017. He then was elected to join the Indonesia squad at the Sudirman Cup, where the team finished in the semi-finals and won the bronze medal.

Achievements

Asian Championships

''Mixed doubles''

BWF World Tour (2 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 (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.

''Mixed doubles''

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

''Mixed doubles''

: BWF International Challenge tournament
: BWF International Series tournament

Performance timeline

National team

* ''Senior level''

Individual competitions

Senior level

= Men's doubles

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= Mixed doubles

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References

External links

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2000 births
Living people
People from Garut
Badminton players from West Java
Indonesian male badminton players
21st-century Indonesian sportsmen