Supanida Katethong ( th, ศุภนิดา เกตุทอง; born 26 October 1997) is a Thai

badminton Badminton is a racquet sport played using racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net. Although it may be played with larger teams, the most common forms of the game are "singles" (with one player per side) and "doubles" (with two players pe ...

player. She won the gold medal in the women's singles at the

2023 SEA Games , Romanization of Khmer#UNGEGN, UNGEGN: ''Keila Rôs Knŏng Sântĕphéap'') , nations = 11 , athletes = 6,210 , events = 580 in 36 sports , opening = 5 May 2023 , closing = 17 May 2023 , opened_by = Hun Sen , ...

, and also part of Thai winning team at the Games in 2021 and 2023.

Career

Katethong started playing badminton at aged nine, and join the Thailand national junior team in 2015. She won her first international title at the 2014

Singapore International The Singapore International or ''Singapore Satellite'', ''Cheers Asian Satellite'' is an open international badminton tournament in Singapore Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state ...

tournament in the women's singles event. In the early of 2015, she won the women's singles title at the Granular Thailand International Challenge tournament. In May 2015, she won double titles at the

Smiling Fish International The Smiling Fish International ( th, การการแข่งขันแบดมินตันนานาชาติ ปุ้มปุ้ยแชมเปี้ยนชิพ) is an open international badminton tournament held in Thail ...

tournament in the women's singles and doubles event. She also won the Sri Lanka International tournament in the women's singles event.

2023

Katethong opened the 2023 season as a semi-finalist in the

India Open The India Open is an annual badminton event which has been held in India since 2008 and is a BWF World Tour Super 750 international badminton tournament. Its first three editions were designated as Grand Prix Gold events. In 2011, it was upgr ...

, losing to the then world number 1

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. She also reached the semi-finals in the

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. In May, Katethong competed at the

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in Cambodia, and won the gold medals in the women's singles and team events. On 16 July, she won her first

BWF World Tour The BWF World Tour is a Grade 2 badminton tournament series, sanctioned by Badminton World Federation (BWF). It is a competition open to the top world ranked players in singles (men's and women's) and doubles (men's, women's and mixed). The compet ...

title at the 2023 U.S. Open after defeating

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in two straight games. In the next two tournaments, she was defeated by her compatriot

Ratchanok Intanon Ratchanok Intanon ( th, รัชนก อินทนนท์, , ; born 5 February 1995) is a Thai badminton player who became the first Thai to become No.1 in women's singles. She is known for her relaxed hitting motion and light footwork, w ...

in the second round of the Japan Open, and in the quarter-finals of the

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Achievements

SEA Games

''Women's singles''

BWF World Tour (1 title, 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

Badminton World Federation The Badminton World Federation (BWF) is the international governing body for the sport of badminton recognised by the International Olympic Committee (IOC). It was founded in 1934 as the International Badminton Federation (IBF) 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 singles''

BWF International Challenge/Series (7 titles, 2 runners-up)

''Women's singles'' ''Women's 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

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Katethong, Supanida Living people 1997 births

Supanida Katethong Supanida Katethong ( th, ศุภนิดา เกตุทอง; born 26 October 1997) is a Thai badminton player. She won the gold medal in the women's singles at the 2023 SEA Games, and also part of Thai winning team at the Games in 2021 ...

Badminton players at the 2022 Asian Games

Asian Games medalists in badminton Medalists at the 2022 Asian Games Competitors at the 2021 SEA Games Competitors at the 2023 SEA Games

SEA Games medalists in badminton