Tien Minh Nguyen
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Nguyễn Tiến Minh, born February 17, 1983 in Ho Chi Minh City
, is a male badminton
player from Vietnam
.
Nevertheless, despite all of Minh's painstaking endearment and awe-inspiring progress, the badminton player was receiving a salary of less than 150 US dollars a month, as most Vietnamese athletes were at the time. Now, after 9 years of contributing to the nation's sport team, while his ranking has been progressing significantly and rapidly, Minh's income has only been increased by around 50 dollars! This fact further contributes to the wonder of Minh's never ceasing improvement and to the spectacle of his flaming spirit, considering the premium and professional conditions the world's top players are being trained in. These athletes, with incomes much higher than that of Minh's, normally have specially assigned specialists to look after their every aspect, such as diet, injuries, endurance training, etc., not to mention all the top ranking sporting facilities provided for by the government. On the other side of the scale, Minh has been trained in an environment with nothing but poor equipments and has to rely mostly on his family's financial support, the cherished effort of his few coaches, and the quiet contribution of his team mates.
The underdeveloped sporting system of Vietnam does not falter the athlete; his unwavering spirit is impenetrable against all the odds he has to face. Now, at the age of 28, Minh currently ranks 7th for Men's Singles as of 8/11/2011 and still goes on striking generations of badminton lovers around the globe with not only awe but also inspirations. There is no doubt that the athlete will even further improve his ranking in the future, as he is portrayed by a common description in his home country, "the athlete with a herculean progress".
Chetan Anand
2-0 Anup Sridhar
1-2 Chen Hong 0-2 Shon Seung-mo
0-1 Przemyslaw Wacha
3-1 Ronald Susilo
0-3 Andrew Smith
1-1 Sony Dwi Kuncoro 1-1 Joachim Persson
2-0 Taufik Hidayat
1-3 Simon Santoso
0-3 Kenneth Jonassen
0-1 Arvind Bhat
1-0 Park Sung-hwan
1-1 Wei Ng 1-0 Jan Ø. Jørgensen
4-1 Rajiv Ouseph
1-0 Lee Hyun-il
2-0 Boonsak Ponsana
2-1 Lin Dan
0-3 Peter Gade
0-7 Shoji Sato
2-1 Bao Chunlai
2-4 Kazushi Yamada 3-0 Hsieh Yu-Hsing
1-1 Marc Zwiebler
4-0 Lee Chong Wei
1-8 Sho Sasaki
5-3 Du Pengyu 2-1 Chen Jin
0-3 Kenichi Tago
1-1 Chen Long
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Ho Chi Minh City
Ho Chi Minh City , formerly named Saigon is the largest city in Vietnam...
, is a male badminton
Badminton
Badminton is a racquet sport played by either two opposing players or two opposing pairs , who take positions on opposite halves of a rectangular court that is divided by a net. Players score points by striking a shuttlecock with their racquet so that it passes over the net and lands in their...
player from Vietnam
Vietnam
Vietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea –...
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Career
Introduced to badminton by his father at the early age of 10, Minh was immediately captivated by the sport and its graceful movements. The interest soon developed into a passion which led to Minh's crucial decision in 2001 when the athlete was 18 years old: to take on the path of becoming a professional badminton player instead of carrying on his education as his family wished. The young man's determination soon demonstrated its fruitful aspects when Minh was recruited into the national team in the same year. However, Minh's career did not become well known nation-wide until 2002 when he, at the age of 19, victoriously defeated the long time national champion, Phu Cuong Nguyen, and seized the gold medal for the men single category.Nevertheless, despite all of Minh's painstaking endearment and awe-inspiring progress, the badminton player was receiving a salary of less than 150 US dollars a month, as most Vietnamese athletes were at the time. Now, after 9 years of contributing to the nation's sport team, while his ranking has been progressing significantly and rapidly, Minh's income has only been increased by around 50 dollars! This fact further contributes to the wonder of Minh's never ceasing improvement and to the spectacle of his flaming spirit, considering the premium and professional conditions the world's top players are being trained in. These athletes, with incomes much higher than that of Minh's, normally have specially assigned specialists to look after their every aspect, such as diet, injuries, endurance training, etc., not to mention all the top ranking sporting facilities provided for by the government. On the other side of the scale, Minh has been trained in an environment with nothing but poor equipments and has to rely mostly on his family's financial support, the cherished effort of his few coaches, and the quiet contribution of his team mates.
The underdeveloped sporting system of Vietnam does not falter the athlete; his unwavering spirit is impenetrable against all the odds he has to face. Now, at the age of 28, Minh currently ranks 7th for Men's Singles as of 8/11/2011 and still goes on striking generations of badminton lovers around the globe with not only awe but also inspirations. There is no doubt that the athlete will even further improve his ranking in the future, as he is portrayed by a common description in his home country, "the athlete with a herculean progress".
Major achievements
- Voted and awarded by the press as the Distinctive Athlete of Ho Chi Minh City in 2004
- Voted and awarded by the press as one of the Distinctive Athletes of Vietnam in 2004, 2007, and 2008
- National championVietnamese National Badminton ChampionshipsThe Vietnamese National Badminton Championships is a tournament organized to crown the best badminton players in Vietnam.-Past winners:...
in the men's singles in 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008 - Bronze Medal for Men Team at 2005 Southeast Asian Games2005 Southeast Asian GamesThe 23rd Southeast Asian Games were held in the Philippines from November 27 to December 5 in 2005. The games were participated by the eleven nations of Southeast Asia. This was the first time that the opening and closing ceremonies were held in a large open field, despite the fact that Manila...
, hosted in the Philippines - Bronze Medal for Men Single at 2007 Southeast Asian Games2007 Southeast Asian GamesThe 24th Southeast Asian Games was held in Nakhon Ratchasima , Thailand from December 6 to December 15, 2007....
, hosted in Thailand - Gold Medal for Men Single at the International Malaysia Satellite 2004
- Gold Medal for Men Single at the International Vietnam Satellite 2006 and 2008
- Gold Medal for Men Single at the International Vietnam Open 2008
- Bronze Medal for Men Single at the International Taiwan Open 2008
- Awarded with the Certificate of Satisfactory Progress by the Ho Chi Minh City’s People Committee in 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
- Participated in 2008 Summer Olympic Games
- Achieved the ranking of 11th worldwide on May 28, 2009
- Gold Medal for Men Single at the Robot Vietnam International Challenge
- Gold Medal for Men Single at the SCG Thailand Open Grand Prix Gold 2009
- Gold Medal for Men Single at the Yonex Chinese Taipei Gold Grand Prix 2009
- Achieved the ranking of 6th worldwide on June 18, 2010
Record Against Selected Opponents
Includes results from all competitions 2005–present.Chetan Anand
Chetan Anand (badminton)
Chetan Anand Buradagunta is a badminton player from India. He is considered to be one of the best male badminton players in the country after Prakash Padukone, Syed Modi and Pullela Gopichand. Chetan Anand was a four time National Badminton champion in 2003, 2006, 2007 & 2009 but his world ranking...
2-0 Anup Sridhar
Anup Sridhar
Anup Sridhar is a male badminton player from India.-Career:Anup Sridhar is India's Thomas Cup captain. Anup's best year on tour so far was 2007 during which he ended the year as the top Indian badminton player with a ranking of 25...
1-2 Chen Hong 0-2 Shon Seung-mo
Shon Seung-mo
Shon Seung-mo is a male badminton player from South Korea.Shon played badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics in men' singles, defeating Antti Viitikko of Finland and Richard Vaughan of Great Britain in the first two rounds. In the quarterfinals, Shon defeated Chen Hong of People's Republic of...
0-1 Przemyslaw Wacha
Przemyslaw Wacha
Przemysław Wacha is a male badminton player from Poland.-Career:Wacha played badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics in men's singles, losing in the first round to Wong Choong Hann of Malaysia. He won the bronze medal at the 2008 European Badminton Championships...
3-1 Ronald Susilo
Ronald Susilo
Ronald Susilo is a Singaporean badminton player of a Chinese-Indonesian origin.He started playing badminton at the age of 8 at the Pelita Jaya Club in Jakarta. He studied in Anglo-Chinese School for his Secondary education under a scholarship. He speaks English, Indonesian, and Malay and he...
0-3 Andrew Smith
Andrew Smith (badminton)
Andrew Michael Smith is an English badminton player.-Career:He had won the New Zealand International in 2004, the Australian International in 2004 and 2005, and also the Croatian International and the Vietnam Open in 2006...
1-1 Sony Dwi Kuncoro 1-1 Joachim Persson
Joachim Persson
Joachim Persson is a badminton player from Denmark. Persson is currently the 3rd highest ranked singles player in Denmark. He is set to take over Kenneth Jonassen as Denmark's second singles after Kenneth's retirement in the months to come....
2-0 Taufik Hidayat
Taufik Hidayat
Taufik Hidayat is an Indonesian badminton player. He is a former World and Olympic champion in men's singles...
1-3 Simon Santoso
Simon Santoso
Simon Santoso is a male badminton player from Indonesia.-Career:When he was young, he joined the Tangkas Jakarta badminton club before joining the Indonesian National team PBSI. In 2005 he won the Robot HCMC Vietnam Satellite and the silver medal at the 2005 Southeast Asian Games...
0-3 Kenneth Jonassen
Kenneth Jonassen
Kenneth Jonassen is a male badminton player from Denmark, who formerly had the fastest smash record in the singles competition, with a 298 km/h shot...
0-1 Arvind Bhat
Arvind Bhat
-Career:Arvind Bhat won the national championships in India in the year 2008. On the international level he won the Scottish Open 2004 and the Czech International 2007. With the 1. BC Bischmisheim he reached gold in the German team championships 2008.-Results:...
1-0 Park Sung-hwan
Park Sung-hwan
Park Sung-hwan is a male badminton player from South Korea. Park is the top ranked men's singles player in Korea and has also enjoyed success at international level, winning individual medals at both the 2010 World Championships and 2010 Asian Games.-2004-2007:2005 Park won the Indonesia...
1-1 Wei Ng 1-0 Jan Ø. Jørgensen
Jan Ø. Jørgensen
Jan Ø. Jørgensen is a male badminton player from Denmark.-Career:He won the bronze medal at the 2008 European Badminton Championships in men's singles and the silver medal at the 2010 European Badminton Championships...
4-1 Rajiv Ouseph
Rajiv Ouseph
Rajiv Ouseph is an English badminton player. He was born and brought up in London and studied media and communication at Loughborough University.-Career:...
1-0 Lee Hyun-il
Lee Hyun-il
Lee Hyun-il is a male badminton player from South Korea.- 2002 Asian Games:Lee competed in the 2002 Asian Games where he showed signs of promise as an ace singles player for Team Korea...
2-0 Boonsak Ponsana
Boonsak Ponsana
Boonsak Ponsana is a male badminton player from Thailand.His younger sister Salakjit Ponsana is also part of the Thailand badminton team.-Career:...
2-1 Lin Dan
Lin Dan
Lin Dan is a professional badminton player from China. He is a four-time world champion and the reigning Olympic champion. Widely considered to be the greatest badminton player of all time, by the age of 27 Lin had completed the "Super Grand Slam", having won all major titles in world badminton:...
0-3 Peter Gade
Peter Gade
Peter Høeg Gade is a Danish professional badminton player. He currently resides in Holte in Copenhagen...
0-7 Shoji Sato
Shoji Sato
is a male badminton player from Japan.Shoji Sato is regarded as one of the fastest on foot players in the world. -Career:He won four Japanese National Championships in a row between 2003 and 2006....
2-1 Bao Chunlai
Bao Chunlai
Bao Chunlai is a male, left-handed badminton player from the People's Republic of China.-Career:The tall, powerful Bao has ranked among the world's leading singles player during the first decade of the 21st century...
2-4 Kazushi Yamada 3-0 Hsieh Yu-Hsing
Hsieh Yu-Hsing
Hsieh Yu-Hsin or Yu Hsin Hsieh . Hsieh started to play badminton international championships since 2002. At the moment, Hsieh had become the men singles No.1 international player in Taiwan, but he always being drawn to face more stronger players in the overseas countries tournament...
1-1 Marc Zwiebler
Marc Zwiebler
Marc Zwiebler is a male badminton player from Germany. He is currently ranked number 16 in the world and is the third highest-ranked European player behind Peter Høeg Gade....
4-0 Lee Chong Wei
Lee Chong Wei
Datuk Lee Chong Wei is a professional badminton player from Malaysia who resides in Bukit Mertajam. Lee won the silver medal in the 2008 Olympic Games, thus becoming the first Malaysian to reach the final of the men's singles event and ending Malaysia's Olympic medal drought since the 1996 Games...
1-8 Sho Sasaki
Sho Sasaki
-Career:In 2007 he won the Japanese National Championships in men's singles, and 7 international tournaments: the Bahrain Satellite Badminton Tournament, the Banuinvest International Championships, the Osaka International Challenge, the Israel International, the Mauritius International, the...
5-3 Du Pengyu 2-1 Chen Jin
Chen Jin
Chen Jin is a male badminton player from China. He is currently rank 6 in world singles men, after defeating Taufik Hidayat in the final of the 2010 BWF World Championships in Paris.-2004–2008:...
0-3 Kenichi Tago
Kenichi Tago
Kenichi Tago is a male badminton player from Japan. In 2010, he surprisingly reached the final of the prestigious All England Open Badminton Championships final. En route to the final he beats three seeded players including Joachim Persson, Chen Jin and Bao Chunlai. In the final, Tago lost to...
1-1 Chen Long
Chen Long
Chen Long is a male badminton player from China.-2010:Chen participated in the Korea Open Super Series in January. He made it through to the semi-finals before losing to Danish player Peter Gade, 13–21 21–10 17–21...
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