Theratil Rajiv Ouseph (born 30 August 1986) is a former
badminton
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player from
England
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who represented both England and Great Britain in the international tournaments. Ouseph was the European Champion, winning in
2017.
Ouseph was born and brought up in
London
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and is of
Indian descent.
Career
Ouseph has won the men's singles titles at the
National Championships
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, seven times in a row from 2008 to 2014, the first player to do so.
Ouseph became the first player to win more than four consecutive national singles titles since
Darren Hall (1988–1991).
In the junior English national circuit, he has won all the singles titles from the ages of U–13 to U–19. In the European tournaments, he has won the U–19 Danish titles in singles and mixed doubles and the German Junior title in singles. His other notable achievements are winning the
European Junior Championship in 2005, the first Englishman to win the title in twenty years.
In 2009, he won the
Canadian International,
Le Volant d'Or de Toulouse,
Scottish Open,
Irish Open and went on to win the 2009 European Circuit Finals.
He won his first senior cap for England at the age of nineteen in the
Thomas Cup. He also repres