Badminton player
| Fontaine Chapman | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Birth name | Fontaine Mica Chapman | |||||||||||||||||
| Country | England | |||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1990-01-02) 2 January 1990 (age 35) Coventry, England | |||||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 9 in (175 cm) | |||||||||||||||||
| Handedness | Right | |||||||||||||||||
| Coach | Stuart Wardell | |||||||||||||||||
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| Highest ranking | 52 (17 September 2015) | |||||||||||||||||
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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.
Early life, training and domestic results
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. 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. 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
BWF International Challenge/Series
Women's singles
| Year | Tournament | Opponent | Score | Result |
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| 2013 | Auckland International |  Tracey Hallam
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15-21, 16-21 |  Runner-up
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| 2014 | Hungarian International |  Sandra-Maria Jensen
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11-2, 11-10, 11-9 |  Winner
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| 2015 | Hellas International |  Linda Zetchiri
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21–9, 14–6 retired | Winner
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- BWF International Challenge tournament
- BWF International Series tournament
- BWF Future Series tournament
References
- "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
- Fontaine Chapman at BWF.TournamentSoftware.com
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