In thisThai name, the person is referred to by hisgiven name,Dechapol, and not by hissurname,Puavaranukroh.
Dechapol Puavaranukroh (Thai:เดชาพล พัววรานุเคราะห์; born 20 May 1997) is a Thaibadminton player.[2] He was a gold medalist at the2014 BWF World Junior Championships in the boys' doubles event with his partnerKittinupong Kedren.[3] Dechapol claimed doubles titles at the2017 SEA Games by winning the gold medal in the men's doubles with Kedren and in the mixed doubles withSapsiree Taerattanachai.[4] Together with Sapsiree, he won the silver and gold medals at theBWF World Championships in2019[5] and2021 respectively, became the first Thai pair who won the world title.[6][7] The duo made a clean sweep of all three 2020 Asian leg titles in Thailand[8][9] and all 2021 Bali leg titles, thus climbing to world number 1 in theBWF ranking.[10] Dechapol and Sapsiree made history as the first ever Thai players to win a title in the year-end Finals tournaments[11] and rank first in the world ranking.[1]
Dechapol and his partner, Sapsiree Taerattanachai, reached their first ever final at a Superseries event in2017 Singapore Open.[12]They competed at the2020 Summer Olympics, but they were eliminated in the quarter-finals.[13]
The BWF World Tour, which was announced on 19 March 2017 and implemented in 2018,[15] is a series of elite badminton tournaments sanctioned by theBadminton World Federation (BWF). The BWF World Tour is divided into levels of World Tour Finals, Super 1000, Super 750, Super 500, Super 300, and the BWF Tour Super 100.[16]
The BWF Superseries, which was launched on 14 December 2006 and implemented in 2007,[17] was a series of elite badminton tournaments, sanctioned by theBadminton World Federation (BWF). BWF Superseries levels wereSuperseries and Superseries Premier. A season of Superseries consisted of twelve tournaments around the world that had been introduced since 2011.[18] Successful players were invited to the Superseries Finals, which were held at the end of each year.
^Sukumar, Dev (10 January 2018)."Action-Packed Season Ahead!". Badminton World Federation.Archived from the original on 13 January 2018. Retrieved15 January 2018.
Sapsiree Taerattanachai
Zheng Siwei
Silver
Yuta Watanabe
Gold
Bronze
Ong Yew Sin
Muhammad Shohibul Fikri
Winner
Runner-up
Wang Chi-lin
Seo Seung-jae
Tang Chun Man
Thom Gicquel
Dhruv Kapila
