Koen Ridder

Koen Ridder
Koen Ridder
Personal information
Country	Netherlands
Born	14 March 1985 (age 36); Haarlem, Netherlands
Height	1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
Handedness	Left
Men's doubles
Highest ranking	22 (14 November 2013)
	BWF profile

Koen Ridder (born 14 March 1985) is a Dutch badminton player.^[1] The left handler Ridder, was a part of the Duinwijck badminton club.^[2] He won the men's doubles title at the national championships in 2009, 2011, and 2013 partnered with Ruud Bosch.^[3] Together with Bosch, they won some international tournament in Portugal, Belgium, Canada, Slovenia, Norway, Peru and Tahiti. He also play for the Düren 57 club in German.^[4] His parents, and Marjan Ridder also a professional badminton players.^[5] Koen Ridder was elected vice-chair of the athlete commission of the BWF for a 4-year term in May 2015. In 2017 Ridder was chosen as Chair by his fellow commission members. ^[6]He achieved his personal best world ranking of 22 in 2013. Koen retired as a professional player in 2014 after representing The Netherlands for more than 10 years at international level. ^[7]

Achievements[]

BWF International Challenge/Series[]

Men's doubles

Year	Tournament	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2014	Norwegian International	Anton Kaisti	Milosz Bochat Maciej Dabrowski	21–13, 21–14	Winner
2013	Tahiti International	Ruud Bosch	Laurent Constantin Matthieu Lo Ying Ping	21–13, 21–10	Winner
2013	Peru International	Ruud Bosch	Phillip Chew Sattawat Pongnairat	21–18, 21–11	Winner
2013	Swedish International	Ruud Bosch	Jacco Arends Jelle Maas	21–16, 16–21, 13–21	Runner-up
2012	Norwegian International	Ruud Bosch	Jacco Arends Jelle Maas	21–18, 20–22, 21–17	Winner
2012	Belgian International	Adam Cwalina	Marcus Ellis Paul van Rietvelde	21–18, 21–17	Winner
2010	Spanish International	Ruud Bosch	Peter Kasbauer Oliver Roth	13–21, 14–21	Runner-up
2010	Slovenian International	Ruud Bosch	Zvonimir Hoelbling Zvonimir Đurkinjak	21–17, 21–15	Winner
2010	Canadian International	Ruud Bosch	Phillip Chew Halim Haryanto	21–13, 21–10	Winner
2009	Belgian International	Ruud Bosch	Marcus Ellis Peter Mills	30–28, 21–12	Winner
2009	Dutch International	Ruud Bosch	Mads Conrad-Petersen Mads Pieler Kolding	14–21, 20–22	Runner-up
2008	Norwegian International	Ruud Bosch	Michael Fuchs Ingo Kindervater	18–21, 21–19, 8–21	Runner-up
2008	Portugal International	Ruud Bosch	Rupesh Kumar Sanave Thomas	21–19, 22–20	Winner