Nguyen Tien Minh

In this Vietnamese name, the family name is Nguyen. According to Vietnamese custom, this person should properly be referred to by the given name Minh.

Nguyễn Tiến Minh
Personal information
Birth name	Nguyễn Tiến Minh
Born	February 17, 1983 (1983-02-17) (age 28) Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Height	1.69 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight	59 kg (130 lb; 9.3 st)
Country	Vietnam
Handedness	Right
Men's singles
Highest Ranking	5 (November, 2010)
Current Ranking	7 (February, 2011[1])
BWF Profile

Nguyễn Tiến Minh, born February 17, 1983 in Ho Chi Minh City, is a male badminton player from Vietnam.

Career

Introduced to badminton by his father at the early age of 10, Minh was immediately captivated by the sport and its graceful movements. The interest soon developed into a passion which led to Minh's crucial decision in 2001 when the athlete was 18 years old: to take on the path of becoming a professional badminton player instead of carrying on his education as his family wished. The young man's determination soon demonstrated its fruitful aspects when Minh was recruited into the national team in the same year. However, Minh's career did not become well known nation-wide until 2002 when he, at the age of 19, victoriously defeated the long time national champion, Phu Cuong Nguyen, and seized the gold medal for the men single category.

Nevertheless, despite all of Minh's painstaking endearment and awe-inspiring progress, the badminton player was receiving a salary of less than 150 US dollars a month, as most Vietnamese athletes were at the time. Now, after 9 years of contributing to the nation's sport team, while his ranking has been progressing significantly and rapidly, Minh's income has only been increased by around 50 dollars! This fact further contributes to the wonder of Minh's never ceasing improvement and to the spectacle of his flaming spirit, considering the premium and professional conditions the world's top players are being trained in. These athletes, with incomes much higher than that of Minh's, normally have specially assigned specialists to look after their every aspect, such as diet, injuries, endurance training, etc., not to mention all the top ranking sporting facilities provided for by the government. On the other side of the scale, Minh has been trained in an environment with nothing but poor equipments and has to rely mostly on his family's financial support, the cherished effort of his few coaches, and the quiet contribution of his team mates.

The underdeveloped sporting system of Vietnam does not falter the athlete; his unwavering spirit is impenetrable against all the odds he has to face. Now, at the age of 28, Minh currently ranks 7th for Men's Singles as of 8/11/2011 and still goes on striking generations of badminton lovers around the globe with not only awe but also inspirations. There is no doubt that the athlete will even further improve his ranking in the future, as he is portrayed by a common description in his home country, "the athlete with a herculean progress".

Major achievements

• Voted and awarded by the press as the Distinctive Athlete of Ho Chi Minh City in 2004
• Voted and awarded by the press as one of the Distinctive Athletes of Vietnam in 2004, 2007, and 2008
• National champion in the men's singles in 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008
• Bronze Medal for Men Team at 2005 Southeast Asian Games, hosted in the Philippines
• Bronze Medal for Men Single at 2007 Southeast Asian Games, hosted in Thailand
• Gold Medal for Men Single at the International Malaysia Satellite 2004
• Gold Medal for Men Single at the International Vietnam Satellite 2006 and 2008
• Gold Medal for Men Single at the International Vietnam Open 2008
• Bronze Medal for Men Single at the International Taiwan Open 2008
• Awarded with the Certificate of Satisfactory Progress by the Ho Chi Minh City’s People Committee in 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
• Participated in 2008 Summer Olympic Games
• Achieved the ranking of 11th worldwide on May 28, 2009
• Gold Medal for Men Single at the Robot Vietnam International Challenge
• Gold Medal for Men Single at the SCG Thailand Open Grand Prix Gold 2009
• Gold Medal for Men Single at the Yonex Chinese Taipei Gold Grand Prix 2009^[2]
• Achieved the ranking of 6th worldwide on June 18, 2010

Record Against Selected Opponents

Includes results from all competitions 2005–present.^[3]

• Chetan Anand 2-0
• Anup Sridhar 1-2
• Chen Hong 0-2
• Shon Seung-mo 0-1
• Przemyslaw Wacha 3-1
• Ronald Susilo 0-3
• Andrew Smith 1-1
• Sony Dwi Kuncoro 1-1
• Joachim Persson 2-0
• Taufik Hidayat 1-3
• Simon Santoso 0-3
• Kenneth Jonassen 0-1
• Arvind Bhat 1-0
• Park Sung-hwan 1-1
• Wei Ng 1-0
• Jan Ø. Jørgensen 4-1
• Rajiv Ouseph 1-0
• Lee Hyun-il 2-0
• Boonsak Ponsana 2-1
• Lin Dan 0-3
• Peter Gade 0-7
• Shoji Sato 2-1
• Bao Chunlai 2-4
• Kazushi Yamada 3-0
• Hsieh Yu-Hsing 1-1
• Marc Zwiebler 4-0
• Lee Chong Wei 1-8
• Sho Sasaki 5-3
• Du Pengyu 2-1
• Chen Jin 0-3
• Kenichi Tago 1-1
• Chen Long 0-1

References

1. ^ BWF World Ranking
2. ^ Chinese Taipei Grand Prix Gold 2009
3. ^ http://www.tournamentsoftware.com/find.aspx?a=8&oid=209B123F-AA87-41A2-BC3E-CB57133E64CC&q=14107

External links

• BWF Player Profile

Persondata
Name	Nguyen Tien Minh
Alternative names
Short description	Professional badminton player
Date of birth	February 17, 1983
Place of birth	Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Date of death
Place of death