Rutaparna Panda (born 7 May 1999) is an Indian badminton player from Odisha.[1] She was selected to be part of the Indian team for the 2018 Asian Games.[2][3][4] Here, she and her partner Arathi Sara Sunil were defeated in the round of 32 by the Thai doubles team. In July 2018, she won the women's doubles title at the All-India senior ranking badminton tournament in Bengaluru.[5] She earlier trained at the Gopichand Badminton Academy at Hyderabad and currently trains with her sister and current doubles partner Swetaparna Panda at Cuttack.[6][7]

Rutaparna Panda
Personal information
CountryIndia
Born (1999-05-07) 7 May 1999 (age 25)
Nayabazar, Cuttack, Odisha, India
Women's & mixed doubles
Highest ranking41 (WD with Swetaparna Panda, 29 October 2024)
101 (XD, 12 November 2019)
Current ranking41 (WD with Swetaparna Panda, 29 October 2024)
BWF profile

Achievements

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

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Women's doubles

Year Tournament Partner Opponent Score Result
2018 Hellas Open   Arathi Sara Sunil   Vimala Hériau
  Margot Lambert
21–19, 21–12   Winner
2019 Ghana International   K. Maneesha   Dorcas Ajoke Adesokan
  Uchechukwu Deborah Ukeh
21–11, 21–11   Winner
2019 Nepal International   K. Maneesha   Setyana Mapasa
  Gronya Somerville
10–21, 21–18, 11–21   Runner-up
2019 Bangladesh International   K. Maneesha   Pearly Tan
  Thinaah Muralitharan
20–22, 19–21   Runner-up
2021 India International Challenge   Tanisha Crasto   Treesa Jolly
  Gayathri Gopichand
21–23, 14–21   Runner-up
2022 Réunion Open   Swetaparna Panda   Annabella Jäger
  Leona Michalski
21–13, 18–21, 18–21   Runner-up
2023 Kazakhstan Future Series   Swetaparna Panda   Nethania Irawan
  Fuyu Iwasaki
13–21, 15–21   Runner-up
2023 Tajikistan International   Swetaparna Panda   Era Maftuha
  Hajar Nuriyeva
21–3, 21–7   Winner
2023 Cameroon International   Swetaparna Panda   Husina Kobugabe
  Gladys Mbabazi
21–16, 21–8   Winner
2023 Kampala International   Swetaparna Panda   Aleena Qathun
  Nayonika Rajesh
21–9, 21–14   Winner
2023 Uganda International   Swetaparna Panda   Fadilah Mohamed Rafi
  Tracy Naluwooza
21–13, 21–8   Winner
2024 Sri Lanka International   Swetaparna Panda   Pichamon Phatcharaphisutsin
  Nannapas Sukklad
12–21, 14–21   Runner-up

Mixed doubles

Year Tournament Partner Opponent Score Result
2019 Ghana International   Ramchandran Shlok   Arjun M.R.
  K. Maneesha
21–19, 21–15   Winner
2019 Lagos International   Ramchandran Shlok   Arjun M.R.
  K. Maneesha
16–21, 17–21   Runner-up
  BWF International Challenge tournament
  BWF International Series tournament
  BWF Future Series tournament

References

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  1. ^ "Rutaparna Panda". Orisports. Retrieved 12 December 2023.
  2. ^ "Badminton: Srikanth, Sindhu lead 20-member squad for Asian Games". The Times of India. 27 June 2018. Retrieved 27 July 2018.
  3. ^ "Asian Games 2018: Here's the list of Indian squads". Mumbai Mirror. 26 July 2018. Retrieved 27 July 2018.
  4. ^ "Odisha's budding shuttler Rutuparna eyes for Olympics". Odisha Sun Times. 9 August 2017. Archived from the original on 22 August 2018. Retrieved 27 July 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  5. ^ "Shuttler Rutuparna Panda speaks about her expectation from Asian Games". www.eenaduindia.com. Ushodaya Enterprises Pvt. Ltd. 6 August 2018. Retrieved 21 October 2018.
  6. ^ Qureshy, Tazeen (14 March 2022). "Panda sisters 2.0: How Rutaparna and Swetaparna are fulfilling their father's 'Dangal' dreams". The Bridge. Retrieved 2 June 2023.
  7. ^ "Rutuparna Panda, Swetaparna Panda first sister duo from India to win int'l title". The Bridge. 12 August 2023. Retrieved 12 December 2023.
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