Fontaine Mica Chapman (born 2 January 1990) is an English badminton player. She started playing badminton at age 6, and joined the England national junior badminton team in 2003.[1][2]
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| Birth name | Fontaine Mica Chapman | |||||||||||||||||
| Country | England | |||||||||||||||||
| Born | 2 January 1990 Coventry, England | |||||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 9 in (175 cm) | |||||||||||||||||
| Handedness | Right | |||||||||||||||||
| Coach | Stuart Wardell | |||||||||||||||||
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| Highest ranking | 52 (17 September 2015) | |||||||||||||||||
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Early life, training and domestic results
editHer grandad used to coach her every day after school when she was a junior from age 9 and also helped her with summer training. She first represented England at the age of 12 years old at the under 13 Aros Junior Cup in Viby J, Denmark.[3] She was runner-up in the women's singles event of the English National Badminton Championships in 2013, reached the semi-finals in 2014 and again a losing finalist in 2015. In the 2016 edition she captured the English National women's singles title.[4] She played for the Birmingham Lions in the National Badminton League. She won a silver medal with the English National squad at the 2015 European Mixed Team Badminton Championships in Leuven, Belgium.
Achievements
editBWF International Challenge/Series
editWomen's singles
| Year | Tournament | Opponent | Score | Result |
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| 2013 | Auckland International |  Tracey Hallam
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15-21, 16-21 |  Runner-up
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| 2014 | Hungarian International |  Sandra-Maria Jensen
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11-2, 11-10, 11-9 |  Winner
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| 2015 | Hellas International |  Linda Zetchiri
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21–9, 14–6 retired | Winner
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- BWF International Challenge tournament
- BWF International Series tournament
- BWF Future Series tournament
References
edit- ^ "Players: Fontaine Mica CHAPMAN". Badminton World Federation. Retrieved 29 August 2016.
- ^ "Fontaine Chapman". Badminton England. Retrieved 29 August 2016.
- ^ "Fontaine Chapman | West Midlands Performance Centre".
- ^ "Coventry's Fontaine Chapman finally lands English National Badminton crown".
External links
edit- Fontaine Chapman at BWF.TournamentSoftware.com
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