Chetan Anand (badminton)

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Chetan Anand
Personal information
Born	July 8, 1980 (1980-07-08) (age 31) Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, India
Height	5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Weight	162 pounds (73 kg)
Country	India
Handedness	Right
Coach	Palanki Uday Bhaskar Babu and S. M. Arif
Men's singles
Highest Ranking	11 (September 12, 2009)
Current Ranking	78 (June 21, 2011)
BWF Profile

Chetan Anand Buradagunta (Telugu: చేతన్ ఆనంద్) is a badminton player from India. He is considered to be one of the best male badminton players in the country after Prakash Padukone, Syed Modi and Pullela Gopichand. Chetan Anand was a four time National Badminton champion in 2003, 2006, 2007 & 2009 but his world ranking has fallen rapidly from world no 11 to 54 since October 2010 . He is also the recipient of the prestigious Indian Arjuna Award.

Family

Chetan Anand was born on July 8, 1980 to Mr. Harshavardhan and Mrs. Suguna in Vijayawada, India.

Early life

Chetan's father Harshavardhan had formerly been an annual participant in the Inter-state Lecturer's Tournaments. Chetan also took a personal interest in badminton, and he started playing with his father. Later he blossommed as one of the most talented kid on the badminton circuit. He later became famous for his intelligent net game and as classic stroke player.

Badminton career

Chetan started his Badminton career in 1992 at the Mini Nationals in Mumbai. Chetan was successful in doubles in his early badminton career, pairing with A. Prithvi. He reached his first open nationals singles final in Kerala at age sixteen, but failed to win the title. Chetan was coached by Palanki Uday Bhaskar Babu.

Chetan Anand was encouraged by Prakash Padukone, arguably the best international player in badminton ever produced by India. Chetan's career received a boost when Prakash Padukone sent him to the World Academy camp in Kuala Lumpur, Malayasia, where he made significant improvements to his game. Chetan won the first singles title of his career at Chennai in a major ranking tournament. The same year he made his mark in the senior category as well, reaching the semifinals in all of the senior ranking tournaments, and reaching the top eight in the country. He became the Junior National Champion in 1999. In 2001 he won his first Asian Satellite tournament in Bangalore which marked his beginning in Seniors. Later he won more than 15 major ranking tournaments in India.

He became the National Badminton Champion for first time in 2004 after faltering in the finals in 2002 and 2003 to Abhinn Shyam Gupta. He also won the Toulouse Open in France in 2004. In 2005 he touched his career best world ranking of World No 13 and also won Irish and Scottish open badminton tournaments in Ireland and Scotland. In 2008 he won his first Grand Prix title at the Bitburger Open. He was also the Runner-up in Dutch Grand Prix in 2008. In 2009 he won at the Dutch Open Grand Prix which he lost in the finals in 2008. He also won the Jaypee Syed Modi Memorial Grand Prix at Lucknow in December 2009.

Education and Profession

Most of Chetan's young life got spent in badminton training. He Finished his schooling at Veeramachineni Paddayya Siddhartha Public School. Chetan also completed his engineering in Mechanical Manufacturing from the Potluri V Prasad Siddhartha Institute of Technology in Vijayawada.

He is employed by the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) as an executive engineer. He is also signed as first Ambassador for Li Ning Sporting goods in India.

Personal life

On 17 July 2005, Chetan Anand married Jwala Gutta, a left-handed Indian badminton player of mixed Chinese and Indian descent who has won the National Badminton Doubles Championship seven times. More recently, the couple has fallen apart as they have filed for a divorce on 29 November 2010 and court sanctioned divorce on 29 June 2011.

Record Against Selected Opponents

Results are from all international competitions since Chetan Anand made his debut in 2003. The athletes listed are athletes who regularly competed at badminton's major competitions, including those who he faced at the World Championship and Olympic competition.^[1]

• Sho Sasaki 3-1
• Przemyslaw Wacha 2-1
• Kenneth Jonassen 0-4
• Joachim Persson 0-3
• Bao Chunlai 0-1
• Arvind Bhat 1-2
• Marc Zwiebler 1-1
• Dicky Palyama 2-1
• Kendrick Lee Yen Hui 0-1
• Nguyen Tien Minh 0-2
• Peter Gade 0-2
• Tanongsak Saensomboonsuk 1-1
• Shoji Sato 1-1
• Hans-Kristian Vittinghus 3-0
• Carl Baxter 2-0
• Rajiv Ouseph 3-0
• Eric Pang 3-0
• Lee Hyun-il 0-2
• Andrew Smith 1-3
• Jan Ø. Jørgensen 1-0
• Chen Hong 0-1
• Anup Sridhar 2-0
• Lee Chong Wei 0-3
• Chan Yan Kit 2-0
• Sony Dwi Kuncoro 1-3
• Kenichi Tago 0-3
• Boonsak Ponsana 0-1
• Wei Ng 0-1
• Chen Jin 0-2
• Du Pengyu 0-1
• Simon Santoso 0-1

References

1. ^ http://www.tournamentsoftware.com/find.aspx?a=8&oid=209B123F-AA87-41A2-BC3E-CB57133E64CC&q=11691

External links

• BWF Player Profile
• Results at the Commonwealth Games 2006

Persondata
Name	Anand, Chetan
Alternative names
Short description	Indian badminton player
Date of birth	July 8, 1980
Place of birth	Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, India
Date of death
Place of death