Simon Santoso
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 Indonesia
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| Born |
29 July 1985 Tegal, Central Java, Indonesia |
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| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 65 kg (143 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Handedness | Right | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Highest ranking | 3 (16 November 2009) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Current ranking | 136 (28 July 2016) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Simon Santoso (born 29 July 1985 in Tegal, Central Java) is a male badminton player from Indonesia.
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. His best results on the world circuit until recently were runner-up finishes at the Singapore (2008), Swiss (2007), and Indonesia Open Superseries (2008) events . He was also a semi-finalist at the Japan Open Superseries (2007) and the Chinese Taipei Open (2007). In September 2008, Santoso won the Chinese Taipei Open after defeating Roslin Hashim from Malaysia in the final round by scores of 21–18, 13–21, 21–10. In October 2009, he won his first Superseries ever in Denmark Open Superseries, after beating Marc Zwiebler of Germany in the final round, 21–14, 21–6. He won gold in the 2009 Southeast Asian Games by defeating Sony Dwi Kuncoro. In 2011, He retained his gold medal in 2011 Southeast Asian Games by beating Tanongsak Saensomboonsuk in 3 sets. In 2012, He helped Indonesia Garuda to win the inaugural Axiata Cup 2012. In June 2012, he won Indonesia Open Superseries premier badminton title 21–18, 13–21, 21–11 after defeating Du Pengyu of China in the final.
Simon is the youngest of four children of Hosea Liem (father) and Rahel Yanti (mother). His hobbies are swimming and reading comics.
The BWF Superseries, launched on December 14, 2006 and implemented in 2007, is a series of elite badminton tournaments, sanctioned by Badminton World Federation (BWF). BWF Superseries has two level such as Superseries and Superseries Premier. A season of Superseries features twelve tournaments around the world, which introduced since 2011, with successful players invited to the BWF Superseries Finals held at the year end.
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