Fontaine Chapman
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Birth name | Fontaine Mica Chapman | |||||||||||||||||
Country | England | |||||||||||||||||
Born | Coventry, England | 2 January 1990|||||||||||||||||
Height | 5 ft 9 in (175 cm) | |||||||||||||||||
Handedness | Right | |||||||||||||||||
Coach | Stuart Wardell | |||||||||||||||||
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Highest ranking | 52 (17 September 2015) | |||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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BWF profile |
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]
Early life, training and domestic results
[edit]Her 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
[edit]BWF International Challenge/Series
[edit]Women's singles
Year | Tournament | Opponent | Score | Result |
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2013 | Auckland International | ![]() |
15-21, 16-21 | ![]() |
2014 | Hungarian International | ![]() |
11-2, 11-10, 11-9 | ![]() |
2015 | Hellas International | ![]() |
21–9, 14–6 retired | ![]() |
- 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