Rendra Wijaya (born 1 November 1984) is an Indonesian

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 who specializes in doubles. He joined

PB Djarum PB Djarum is an Indonesian badminton club in Kudus, Central Java. The club was founded at the Djarum ''brak'' (cigarette factory) located at Jl. Bitingan Lama (now called Jl. Lukmonohadi) No. 35 in Kudus in 1969. Djarum's CEO, Budi Hartono, en ...

badminton club in 2007.

Personal life

Wijaya grew in badminton family. His father, Hendra Wijaya is a former badminton player and owner of Rajawali badminton club in

Cirebon Cirebon (, formerly rendered Cheribon or Chirebon in English) is a port city on the northern coast of the Indonesian island of Java. It is the only coastal city of West Java, located about 40 km west of the provincial border with Central Ja ...

. His brothers, Indra and

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are former Indonesian badminton player and part of the

Indonesia national badminton team The Indonesia national badminton team represents Indonesia in international badminton team competitions and is controlled by the Badminton Association of Indonesia, the governing body for badminton in Indonesia. Indonesia is one of the only two co ...

at the

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and

1998 Thomas Cup The 1998 Thomas & Uber Cup was the 20th tournament of the Thomas Cup, and the 17th tournament of the Uber Cup, which are the major international team competitions in world badminton. Host city selection China was originally selected as the host ...

. Her sister, Sandrawati Wijaya also a badminton player. He married Fransisca Carollim in 2011.

Career

Wijaya won his first international tournament at the 2008 Spanish Open in the men's and mixed doubles event. Together with his partner in the men's doubles,

Fran Kurniawan Fran Kurniawan Teng (born 1 April 1985) is an Indonesian badminton player from PB Djarum who specializes in doubles. In 2011, he became the determinant for the Indonesian team to qualified from the group stage at the 2011 Sudirman Cup. In the e ...

, he also won 2008 Finnish and Austrian International Series tournament. At the 2008 Indonesia International Challenge, he and Kurniawan won the men's doubles title after beat their compatriot Windarto and Wirawan in the straight games with the score 21-18, 21-13. In the Grand Prix level, he and Kurniawan won their first title at the Dutch Open tournament. In the final round they won in straight games to Indian paired. Teamed-up with Rian Sukmawan he won the 2011 White Nights and Indonesia International Challenge tournament.

Achievements

BWF Grand Prix

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(BWF) since 2007. ''Men's Doubles'' : BWF Grand Prix Gold tournament :

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tournament

BWF International Challenge/Series

''Men'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 The Badminton ...

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

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Wijaya, Rendra 1984 births Living people Badminton players from West Java People from Cirebon Indonesian male badminton players Indonesian people of Chinese descent