Sameer Verma
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| Birth name | Sameer Verma | ||||||||||||||||||
| Country |  India |
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| Born | 22 October 1994 Dhar, Madhya Pradesh |
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| Height | 170 cm | ||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 60 kg | ||||||||||||||||||
| Coach | Pulela Gopichand | ||||||||||||||||||
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Sameer Verma, was born on 22 October 1994. He is an Indian badminton player and trains at the Gopichand Badminton Academy, Hyderabad. He is currently (as of August 27, 2014) the 3rd ranked men’s badminton player in the national circuit.[2] Sameer is the brother of Indian badminton player Sourabh Verma and like his brother is supported by the GoSports Foundation,[3] Bangalore and has been part of their scholarship programme since 2012.
Career
2011
Verma won a silver medal in the Asian Junior Badminton Championships, 2011, held in Lucknow, India. He also won silver at the men's singles at the 2011 Commonwealth Youth Games, Isle of Man losing in the final to Zulfadli Zulkiffli of Malaysia.[4]
2012
At the 36th Junior National Badminton Championships in Jaipur, Verma won the boy's singles U-19 category.[5] The same year Verma also reached the final of the Iran Open.[6]
2013
In 2013, Verma won his first international titles when he won the men's singles event at the Bahrain International Series and Bahrain International Challenge.[7][8]
2014
Battling injuries in 2012 and 2013, Verma came back strongly in 2014 by winning the All India Senior Ranking Badminton Championships, 2014 in Bareilly.[9]
Personal
Verma hails from a lower-middle-class family. His parents live in Dhar district in Madhya Pradesh. His father Sudhir Verma is a Grade II Assistant working with the Narmada Valley Development Authority, and his mother Sangita is a house-wife. Sameer followed in the footsteps of his brother Sourabh Varma, who is also an internationally ranked badminton player,[10] and took up badminton as a sport at a young age. He soon moved to the Gopichand Badminton Academy in Hyderabad to train under coach and former Indian player Pullela Gopichand.
References
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ BAI Rankings
- ↑ http://www.gosportsfoundation.in/ GoSports Foundation
- ↑ CWYG 2011
- ↑ Sameer, Junior National Champion
- ↑ Iran Open
- ↑ Bahrain International Series
- ↑ Bahrain International Challenge
- ↑ Sameer Verma & PC Thulasi upset top seeds to clinch National Ranking titles in Bareilly
- ↑ BWF World Rankings
