Sourabh Verma
| Sourabh Verma | |
|---|---|
| Personal information | |
| Birth name | Sourabh Verma |
| Country |
 India
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| Born |
December 30, 1992 Dhar, Madhya Pradesh |
| Residence | Hyderabad |
| Height | 5 ft 10 in (1.78 m) |
| Handedness | Right |
| Coach | Pullela Gopichand |
| Men's singles | |
| Highest ranking | 30 (25 October 2012) |
| Current ranking | 37 (25 May 2017) |
| BWF profile | |
Sourabh Verma (born 30 December 1992) is a badminton player from India.
Verma was the Indian National Badminton Champion in the senior singles category in 2011. In 2011, Sourabh Verma won his first international title by winning the Bahrain International Challenge. In the same year he was the runner up at 2011 Syed Modi Grand Prix Gold after losing to the former Olympic champion Taufik Hidayat.
Sourabh won back-to-back international titles in 2013 and 2014. First of them being 2013 Tata International Challenge held at Mumbai where he defeated Prannoy Kumar. Verma grabbed the next title at 2014 Iran Fajr International Challenge beating Alrie Guna Dharma and the 3rd title in the row was taken by becoming the champion at the 2014 Austrian International Challenge causing an upset to his higher ranked opponent Hsu Jen-hao
Sourabh Verma also finished at 2nd position in a neck to neck match with Simon Santoso at the 2014 Malaysia Open Grand Prix Gold. He competed at the 2014 Asian Games. In November 2016, Sourabh lost to Shi Yuqi of China in the final of the Bitburger German Open.
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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