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Country | Netherlands | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Blaricum, Netherlands | 30 September 1991||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.66 m (5 ft 5 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 59 kg (130 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Handedness | Right | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coach | Joachim Fischer Nielsen Henri Vervoort[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Highest ranking | 7 (WD with Eefje Muskens 11 February 2016) 8 (XD with Robin Tabeling 18 July 2023) 12 (XD with Jacco Arends 26 November 2015) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Current ranking | 19 (XD with Robin Tabeling 30 July 2024) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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BWF profile |
Selena Piek (born 30 September 1991) is a Dutch badminton player who specializes in doubles.[2] She won the gold medals at the European Games in 2019 in the women's doubles, and in 2023 in the mixed doubles. She was the Badminton Europe Athletes' Commission from 2016 to 2020.[3][4]
Since joining the national team when she was 15, Piek has shown her talent in playing doubles. She won gold in the mixed doubles and silver medal in the girls' doubles at the 2009 European Junior Championships. She reached a career high of world number 7 in the women's doubles with Eefje Muskens and number 8 in the mixed doubles with Robin Tabeling. She participated in two events, mixed and women's doubles at two Olympic Games in 2016 in Rio de Janeiro and 2020 in Tokyo, where she reached the quarter-finals in 2016 with Muskens and in 2020 with Cheryl Seinen.
Career
[edit]Piek started playing badminton at a young age and left her home in Weesp to join the Dutch National junior badminton squad at Papendal when she was 15 years old. Ever since then she lived close by Papendal in the Dutch city of Arnhem. Her early international glory was together first with partner Iris Tabeling, then with partner Eefje Muskens in the women's doubles event and first also with partner Jacco Arends in the mixed doubles event.
Her last women's doubles partner was Cheryl Seinen and currently her only focus internationally is in the mixed doubles event with Robin Tabeling. She won her first National doubles title in 2012 with Iris Tabeling. Thereafter, she won the 2014, 2015 and 2016 editions of Dutch National Badminton Championships with Eefje Muskens.[5] She won another three National doubles events with partner Cheryl Seinen in 2018, 2019 and 2020. She has also won the mixed doubles National championships title seven times since 2012 with four different partners (2012 with Dave Khodabux, 2013 with Ruud Bosch, 2014-2016 with Jacco Arends, 2020 and 2023 with Robin Tabeling).
Piek was the gold medalist at the 2019 European Games in the women's doubles event with Cheryl Seinen.[6]
She reached the Olympics quarter finals twice; at the Rio Olympics 2016 with Eefje Muskens and the Tokyo Olympics 2020 with Cheryl Seinen. In the Dutch Eredivisie league, she is playing for Duinwijck in Haarlem, while in Denmark in the Elite league her club is Højbjerg Badminton Klub.
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2023: Second European Games gold
[edit]Piek and her partner, Tabeling, started the 2023 season on the Asian tour with unsatisfactory results. They had to accept defeat in the early rounds at the Malaysia and India Opens as well as at the Indonesia Masters in January. Their performance then improved in March, reaching the quarter-finals at the All England Open and the semi-finals at the Swiss Open. In July, Piek won her second gold medal at the European Games by winning the mixed doubles title with Tabeling, where she previously in 2019 won the women's doubles with Cheryl Seinen.[7] In the remaining tournaments in 2023, Piek and Tabeling did not win any BWF World Tour, with their best were reaching the quarter-finals at the Hylo Open.
2024: 7th medals in the European Championships
[edit]In the first semester of 2024, Piek and her partner, Robin Tabeling has not won any single title. The best results that they achieved were a semi-finalists in the German, All England, and Swiss Opens.[8][9] She then captured her seventh medal in the European Championships by winning the mixed doubles bronze, after losing to 1st seeded Mathias Christiansen and Alexandra Bøje in the semi-finals.[10]
Piek made her third appearence at the Olympics by competing in the mixed doubles with Tabeling, but the duo were eliminated in the group stage.[1]
Achievements
[edit]European Games
[edit]Women's doubles
Year | Venue | Partner | Opponent | Score | Result |
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2019 | Falcon Club, Minsk, Belarus |
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14–21, 21–13, 21–15 | ![]() |
Mixed doubles
Year | Venue | Partner | Opponent | Score | Result |
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2023 | Arena Jaskółka, Tarnów, Poland |
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21–10, 13–21, 21–13 | ![]() |
European Championships
[edit]Women's doubles
Year | Venue | Partner | Opponent | Score | Result |
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2014 | Gymnastics Center, Kazan, Russia |
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23–25, 11–21 | ![]() |
2016 | Vendéspace, La Roche-sur-Yon, France |
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18–21, 17–21 | ![]() |
2018 | Palacio de los Deportes Carolina Marín, Huelva, Spain |
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21–17, 18–21, 19–21 | ![]() |
2021 | Palace of Sports, Kyiv, Ukraine |
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18–21 , 16–21 | ![]() |
Mixed doubles
Year | Venue | Partner | Opponent | Score | Result |
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2016 | Vendéspace, La Roche-sur-Yon, France |
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17–21, 8–21 | ![]() |
2022 | Polideportivo Municipal Gallur, Madrid, Spain |
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19–21, 15–21 | ![]() |
2024 | Saarlandhalle, Saarbrücken, Germany |
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23–25, 23–21, 18–21 | ![]() |
European Junior Championships
[edit]Girls' doubles
Year | Venue | Partner | Opponent | Score | Result |
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2009 | Federal Technical Centre - Palabadminton, Milan, Italy |
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13-21, 17-21 | ![]() |
Mixed doubles
Year | Venue | Partner | Opponent | Score | Result |
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2009 | Federal Technical Centre - Palabadminton, Milan, Italy |
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21–16, 20–22, 21–19 | ![]() |
BWF World Tour (1 title, 3 runners-up)
[edit]The BWF World Tour, which was announced on 19 March 2017 and implemented in 2018,[11] is a series of elite badminton tournaments sanctioned by the Badminton 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.[12]
Women's doubles
Year | Tournament | Level | Partner | Opponent | Score | Result |
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2018 | Dutch Open | Super 100 | ![]() |
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17–21, 18–21 | ![]() |
Mixed doubles
Year | Tournament | Level | Partner | Opponent | Score | Result |
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2018 | Scottish Open | Super 100 | ![]() |
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6–13 retired | ![]() |
2019 | Dutch Open | Super 100 | ![]() |
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21–17, 21–13 | ![]() |
2022 | French Open | Super 750 | ![]() |
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16–21, 21–14, 20–22 | ![]() |
BWF Grand Prix (6 titles, 6 runners-up)
[edit]The BWF Grand Prix had two levels, the Grand Prix and Grand Prix Gold. It was a series of badminton tournaments sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation (BWF) and played between 2007 and 2017.
Women's doubles
Year | Tournament | Partner | Opponent | Score | Result |
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2012 | Dutch Open | ![]() |
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19–21, 21–16, 22–20 | ![]() |
2013 | Canada Open | ![]() |
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21–13, 11–21, 13–21 | ![]() |
2013 | Bitburger Open | ![]() |
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22–20, 21–15 | ![]() |
2013 | Scottish Open | ![]() |
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25–23, 15–21, 21–16 | ![]() |
2014 | Dutch Open | ![]() |
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11–8, 4–11, 11–9, 11–10 | ![]() |
2015 | Canada Open | ![]() |
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19–21, 16–21 | ![]() |
2015 | Dutch Open | ![]() |
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22–24, 15–21 | ![]() |
2015 | Brasil Open | ![]() |
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17–21, 14–21 | ![]() |
2016 | Syed Modi International | ![]() |
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15–21, 13–21 | ![]() |
2017 | Scottish Open | ![]() |
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15–21, 21–15, 21–11 | ![]() |
Mixed doubles
Year | Tournament | Partner | Opponent | Score | Result |
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2017 | Dutch Open | ![]() |
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17–21, 18–21 | ![]() |
2017 | Scottish Open | ![]() |
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21–10, 21–10 | ![]() |
- BWF Grand Prix Gold tournament
- BWF Grand Prix tournament
BWF International Challenge/Series (28 titles, 8 runners-up)
[edit]Women's doubles
Year | Tournament | Partner | Opponent | Score | Result |
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2010 | Slovak Open | ![]() |
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21–10, 21–18 | ![]() |
2010 | Czech International | ![]() |
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22–20, 15–21, 21–7 | ![]() |
2010 | Italian International | ![]() |
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21–15, 21–9 | ![]() |
2011 | Estonian International | ![]() |
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21–12, 21–16 | ![]() |
2011 | Slovak Open | ![]() |
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21–7, 21–9 | ![]() |
2012 | Estonian International | ![]() |
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21–15, 13–21, 21–10 | ![]() |
2012 | Dutch International | ![]() |
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21–17, 19–21, 21–23 | ![]() |
2012 | Belgian International | ![]() |
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24–22, 21–18 | ![]() |
2012 | Norwegian International | ![]() |
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20–22, 16–21 | ![]() |
2013 | Swedish Masters | ![]() |
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21–15, 21–16 | ![]() |
2013 | Irish Open | ![]() |
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21–17, 21–10 | ![]() |
2013 | Italian International | ![]() |
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21–10, 21–8 | ![]() |
2014 | Swedish Masters | ![]() |
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21–19, 21–11 | ![]() |
2014 | Belgian International | ![]() |
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11–9, 9–11, 11–8, 10–11, 11–7 | ![]() |
2017 | Belgian International | ![]() |
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21–14, 21–16 | ![]() |
Mixed doubles
Year | Tournament | Partner | Opponent | Score | Result |
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2010 | Portugal International | ![]() |
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14–21, 21–18, 11–21 | ![]() |
2010 | Slovak Open | ![]() |
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21–15, 21–14 | ![]() |
2010 | Hungarian International | ![]() |
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21–15, 21–14 | ![]() |
2011 | Estonian International | ![]() |
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21–12, 21–14 | ![]() |
2011 | Slovak Open | ![]() |
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21–13, 21–18 | ![]() |
2011 | Belgian International | ![]() |
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25–23, 16–21, 14–21 | ![]() |
2011 | Irish Open | ![]() |
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19–21, 17–21 | ![]() |
2012 | Estonian International | ![]() |
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21–7, 21–12 | ![]() |
2012 | Scottish International | ![]() |
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16–21, 16–21 | ![]() |
2013 | Belgian International | ![]() |
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18–21, 21–9, 15–21 | ![]() |
2013 | Irish Open | ![]() |
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9–21, 21–19, 21–13 | ![]() |
2013 | Italian International | ![]() |
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21–23, 18–21 | ![]() |
2014 | Belgian International | ![]() |
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11–5, 11–10, 11–7 | ![]() |
2015 | Swedish Masters | ![]() |
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21–17, 17–21, 21–14 | ![]() |
2017 | Belgian International | ![]() |
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21–17, 21–9 | ![]() |
2018 | Belgian International | ![]() |
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21–11, 21–13 | ![]() |
2019 | Austrian Open | ![]() |
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19–21, 21–16, 21–12 | ![]() |
2019 | Brazil International | ![]() |
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16–21, 23–21, 21–17 | ![]() |
2021 | Dutch Open | ![]() |
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18–21, 21–13, 15–21 | ![]() |
2021 | Irish Open | ![]() |
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21–18, 21–15 | ![]() |
2022 | Dutch Open | ![]() |
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21–17, 21–12 | ![]() |
- BWF International Challenge tournament
- BWF International Series tournament
- BWF Future Series tournament
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Piek Selena". International Olympic Committee. Archived from the original on 30 July 2024. Retrieved 30 July 2024.
- ^ "Selena Piek". Badminton Europe Player Profile. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 19 August 2015.
- ^ Agerbak, Brian (19 February 2016). "BEC Athletes election decided". Badminton Europe. Retrieved 14 April 2024.
- ^ "Badminton Europe Commission Chair". Badminton Europe. Archived from the original on 14 April 2024. Retrieved 14 April 2024.
- ^ "Fantastic Four pick up National Titles : Surrey Smashers Badminton". surreysmashers.co.uk. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 19 August 2015.
- ^ Bech, Rasmus (29 June 2019). "Netherlands wins first ever European Games gold". Badminton Europe. Retrieved 29 June 2019.
- ^ "EK-goud badmintonners Piek en Tabeling in gemengd dubbel: 'Zo onwijs trots'" (in Dutch). NOS. 2 July 2023. Retrieved 24 April 2024.
- ^ "Memorabele prestatie op de 125e Yonex All England door Selena Piek en Robin Tabeling!" (in Dutch). Badminton Nederland. 18 March 2024. Retrieved 14 April 2024.
- ^ "Weespse Selena Piek kan zich opmaken voor derde deelname Olympische Spelen" (in Dutch). Gooieneemlander. 25 March 2024. Retrieved 14 April 2024.
- ^ "Badmintonduo Tabeling/Piek grijpt naast finaleplaats EK" (in Dutch). Welingelichte Kringen. 12 April 2024. Retrieved 14 April 2024.
- ^ Alleyne, Gayle (19 March 2017). "BWF Launches New Events Structure". Badminton World Federation. Archived from the original on 1 December 2017. Retrieved 29 November 2017.
- ^ Sukumar, Dev (10 January 2018). "Action-Packed Season Ahead!". Badminton World Federation. Archived from the original on 13 January 2018. Retrieved 15 January 2018.
External links
[edit]- Official website at the Wayback Machine (archived 22 April 2016)
- Selena Piek at BWF.tournamentsoftware.com
- Selena Piek at BWFbadminton.com
- Selena Piek at Olympics.com
- Selena Piek at Olympedia
- Selena Piek at TeamNL (archive) (in Dutch)