Letshanaa Karupathevan (born 19 August 2003) is a Malaysian

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 was part of Malaysia team that won bronze medals in the

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and

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Career

In 2018, Letshanaa was among the players that won a bronze at the 2018 Jakarta mixed team. On the same year, she won her first international tournament winning the women singles of the 2018

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. She made her name in 2019 when she won the national Under-18 title as a 14-year-old and joined the national back-up squad in 2020. In 2021, she was part of the Malaysian squad that won bronze at the

2021 Sudirman Cup The 2021 Sudirman Cup (officially known as the TotalEnergies BWF Sudirman Cup Finals 2021 for sponsorship reasons) was the 17th edition of the Sudirman Cup, the biennial international badminton championship contested by the mixed national teams ...

. In February 2022, Letshanaa resigned from

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due to back injury. As an independent player, she trained at the Fly Spirit Badminton Club in

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and

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under the tutelage of her brother, K. Jhotiswaran and father, A. Karupathevan. She rejoined the national badminton team on 1 March 2023.

Achievement

BWF World Tour (1 runner-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

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(BWF). The BWF World Tours are divided into levels of World Tour Finals, Super 1000, Super 750, Super 500, Super 300 (part of the HSBC World Tour), and the BWF Tour Super 100. ''Women's singles''

BWF International Challenge/Series (2 titles, 1 runner-up)

''Women's singles'' :

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 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

BWF Junior International (1 runner-up)

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

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Karupathevan, Letshanaa 2003 births Living people Badminton players from Perak Malaysian people of Tamil descent Malaysian sportspeople of Indian descent Malaysian female badminton players Badminton players at the 2022 Asian Games Asian Games badminton players for Malaysia