Sapsiree Taerattanachai (Thai:ทรัพย์สิรี แต้รัตนชัย;RTGS: Sapsiri Tae-rattanachai; born 18 April 1992) is a Thaibadminton player. She claimed titles in the mixed doubles withDechapol Puavaranukroh at the2017 SEA Games and at the2021 World Championships.[3][4] Sapsiree and Dechapol made history as the first ever Thai pair to win the year-end Finals tournaments, the World Championships title and rank first in theworld ranking.
Sapsiree and Dechapol won the silver medal at the2019 World Championships,[8] and a gold medal at the2021 World Championships.[4] The duo made a clean sweep of all three 2020 Asian Leg titles in Thailand,[9][10] and all 2021Bali leg titles and climbed to world number 1 in BWF ranking on 7 December 2021.[1][11]
Her family is considered to be wealthy. Her parents owns a gold shop inUdon Thani city.[12] For the2024 Summer Olympics inParis, her brother bought a large LED billboard in front of their house to broadcast her matches live so that Udon Thani people could cheer her on, along with free water and parking.[13]
She graduated fromChulalongkorn University.[14] Sapsiree is nicknamed "Popor". Her knee injury during the 2017 SEA Games Final was a minor speed bump to her long successful career. She has a made a very strong comeback in 2019 by producing extremely good results.
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Sapsiree and her mixed doubles partner Dechapol reached their first ever final at a Superseries event in2017 Singapore Open.[16]
Sapsiree and Dechapol competed at the2020 Summer Olympics, but were eliminated in the quarter-finals.[17] Sapsiree and Dechapol also reached the quarter-finals at the2024 Summer Olympics inParis,France. However the Badminton Association of Thailand (BAT) made the decision after the Paris Olympics to "break-up" the successful Thai mixed doubles badminton combination Dechapol Puavaranukroh ("Bass") and Sapsiree Taerattanachai ("Popor"). This change aimed to have them switch partners and potentially start over, though there is a strong focus on both trying to be a world No. 1 again. Sapsiree now forming a new mixed doubles combination withPakkapon Teeraratsakul.
The BWF World Tour, which was announced on 19 March 2017 and implemented in 2018,[20] 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.[21]
The BWF Superseries, which was launched on 14 December 2006 and implemented in 2007,[22] 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.[23] Successful players were invited to the Superseries Finals, which were held at the end of each year.
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Puttita Supajirakul
Kim So-yeong
Bronze
Zheng Siwei
Silver
Yuta Watanabe
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Nitya Krishinda Maheswari
Goh Soon Huat
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Wang Chi-lin
Tang Chun Man
P. C. Thulasi
Heather Olver
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