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Sameer Verma

Sameer Verma
Personal information
Birth name Sameer Verma
Country  India
Born (1994-10-22) 22 October 1994 (age 22)
Dhar, Madhya Pradesh
Height 170 cm (5 ft 7 in)
Weight 60 kg (132 lb)
Coach Pulela Gopichand

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. Sameer is the brother of Indian badminton player Sourabh Verma and like his brother is supported by the GoSports Foundation,Bangalore and has been part of their scholarship programme since 2012.

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.

At the 36th Junior National Badminton Championships in Jaipur, Verma won the boy's singles U-19 category. The same year Verma also reached the final of the Iran Open.

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.

Battling injuries in 2012 and 2013, Verma came back strongly in 2014 by winning the All India Senior Ranking Badminton Championships, 2014 in Bareilly.


Sameer Verma stunned world No 3 Jan O Jorgensen in straight games to storm into the final of the Hong Kong Open Super Series badminton tournament on Saturday 26 November, 2016. Verma upstated the Danish stalwart 21–19, 24–22 in an exciting match.

Men's Singles

The BWF Grand Prix has two level such as Grand Prix and Grand Prix Gold. It is a series of badminton tournaments, sanctioned by Badminton World Federation (BWF) since 2007.


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