Chetan Anand (badminton)
| Chetan Anand | |
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| Personal information | |
| Country |  India |
| Born | July 8, 1980 Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, India |
| Height | 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) |
| Weight | 170 lb (77 kg) |
| Handedness | Right |
| Coach | S. M. Arif |
| Men's singles | |
| Highest ranking | 15 (September 12, 2009) |
| Current ranking | 78 (June 21, 2011) |
| BWF profile | |
Chetan Anand Buradagunta 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 ranking has fallen rapidly since. 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. He has a younger brother, Sandeep Anand Burdagunta.
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 at school.
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 JBS Vidhyadhar and A. Prithvi. He reached his first open nationals singles final in Kerala at age sixteen, but failed to win the title.
Chetan Anand was encouraged by Mr. 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 2008 he won his first Grand Prix title at the Bitburger Open by defeating Arvind Bhat. In 2009 he won at the Dutch Open and Jaypee Cup Syed Modi Memorial Grand Prix at Lucknow.
Education and Profession
Most of Chetan's young life got spent in badminton. He joined Sri Venkateswara College of Engg., Machilipatnam for graduation. However, due to the lack of enough time spent at academics, he was detained for the year. Chetan then moved to Vijayawada to later come out as an engineering graduate in Mechanical Manufacturing from the Potluri V Prasad Siddhartha Institute of Technology in Vijayawada. He is employed by the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation as an executive engineer in Chennai.
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[when?], the couple has fallen apart and reported to have filed for a divorce on 5 August 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
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