Leanne Choo

Leanne Choo
Personal information
Country  Australia
Born (1991-06-05) 5 June 1991
Adelaide, South Australia
Residence Melbourne, Victoria
Height 1.67 m (5 ft 6 in)
Weight 57 kg (126 lb)
Handedness Left
Mixed Doubles
Highest ranking 28 (7/14/2015)
Current ranking 28
BWF profile
Updated on 4 Jan 2016.

Leanne Choo (born 5 June, 1991) is a female badminton player from Australia. Choo is the reigning Oceania Champion in women's and mixed doubles. She represented Australia at the 2012 Summer Olympics, alongside former women's doubles partner, Renuga Veteran. Choo is scheduled to be competing at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.

Personal

Leanne, nicknamed Choo, Choobuka and Cheanne Loo, was born in Adelaide, South Australia. She attended Glen Osmond Primary School and later graduated from Glenunga International High School. In 2010, she enrolled at the University of Adelaide to study a degree in architecture.[1][2] Choo is a member of the Sturt Badminton Club, the largest badminton club in South Australia.[3]

Career

Early Career - 2012

Choo started playing badminton when she was eight years old.[1] She rose to prominence as a junior becoming the first South Australian to win a triple crown at a national event. Due to her ongoing success, she was made a member of the Australian National Team. As a member of the national team, she is based at the Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre, in Melbourne, Victoria.[4]

Choo has represented Australia multiple times including at the 2006, 2007 and 2009 BWF World Junior Championships. She continued representing Australia at a junior level at the 2007 Australian Youth Olympic Festival in Sydney and the 2008 Commonwealth Youth Games in Pune, India. Her senior debut was at the 2010 Uber Cup in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. She also competed at the 2012 edition in Wuhan, China. Choo has also represented Australia at the World Mixed Team Championships, the Sudirman Cup in 2011 and 2015.[1]

At the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, India, Choo began her partnership with Renuga Veeran. The pair almost staged an upset in the quarterfinals against the number one seeds from Singapore, Yao Lei and Shinta Mulia Sari. This was the first international tournament that Choo and Veeran had competed in.[2][5] The duo officially formed their partnership soon afterwards.

Choo and Veeran competed at the 2011 BWF World Championships in London where they reached the second round. The pair demolished Steffi Annys and Severine Corvilain of Germany 21-6 21-9 in the first round before losing to 10th seeds, and eventual bronze medalists of the 2012 Summer Olympics, Valeria Sorokina and Nina Vislova of Russia in three games.[6]

2012 Summer Olympics

Choo was named as part of Australia's badminton team for the 2012 Summer Olympics, in London and made her Olympic debut as a 21-year-old.[2][7][8][9] At the end of the Olympic qualifying period, Choo and Veeran were ranked 35th in the world. During the qualifying process, their ranking peaked at 26.[10] At the 2012 Summer Olympics, Choo and Veeran performed well in their round robin matches thrashing their South African opponents and staying in contention with their Korean and Indonesian opponents, ranked world number three end eight respectively at the time. Unfortunately, they placed third in their pool and could not advance to the quarterfinals.

However, four pairs including Meiliana Jauhari and Greysia Polii of Indonesia and Ha Jung Eun and Kim Min Jung of Korea were disqualified from the competition. The pairings were disqualified for "not using ones's best efforts to win a match" and "conducting oneself in a manner that is clearly abusive or detrimental to the sport" as they were intentionally trying to lose matches in order to secure an easier quarterfinal draw.

The duo advance to the quarterfinals, where they were defeated by Alex Bruce and Michelle Li of Canada. They were awarded a 5th placing, the best result in Australia's history of Olympic badminton.[11][12]

Results from 2012 Summer Olympics

Round Date Opponent Score Result
Group C

Pool Match 1

28/07/2012 IndonesiaMeiliana Jauhari

IndonesiaGreysia Polii

21-0 21-0 (DSQ)

(11-21 21-19 14-21)

Win
Group C

Pool Match 2

29/07/2012 South AfricaMichelle Claire Edwards

South AfricaAnnari Viljoen

21-9 21-7 Win
Group C

Pool Match 2

30/07/2012 South KoreaHa Jung Eun

South KoreaKim Min Jung

21-0 21-0 (DSQ)

(7-21 19-21)

Win
Quarterfinals 1/08/2012 CanadaAlex Bruce

CanadaMichelle Li

9-21 21-18 18-21 Loss

2014 - Present

In April 2014, Choo formed her partnership with Robin Middleton in the Mixed Doubles. In June 2016, the pair qualified for the 2016 Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Individual Finals

Mixed Doubles with Robin Middleton

Year Tournament Venue Opponents Score Result
2016 Oceania Championships Tahiti,

French Polynesia

AustraliaAnthony Joe

AustraliaJoy Lai

21-11 21-9 Winner
2015 Sydney International Sydney,

Australia

United StatesPhillip Chew

United StatesJamie Subandhi

21-8 21-17 Winner
Maribrynong International Melbourne,

Australia

AustraliaSawan Serasinghe

AustraliaSetyana Mapasa

17-21 21-19 21-19 Winner
Sri Lanka International Colombo,

Sri Lanka

IndiaArun Vishnu

IndiaAparna Balun

21-15 17-21 13-21 Runner Up
Oceania Championships Auckland,

New Zealand

New ZealandOliver Leydon-Davis

New ZealandDanielle Tahuri

21-12 21-14 Winner

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Badminton Australia: Leanne Choo". Badminton Australia. Retrieved 2012-06-19.
  2. 1 2 3 "London 2012 – Leanne Choo". London2012.olympics.com.au. Retrieved 2012-06-19.
  3. "Elite members". Sturt Badminton Club Inc. Retrieved 2015-06-18.
  4. "Badminton Australia: Athlete Profiles". Badminton.org.au. Retrieved 2012-06-19.
  5. "tournamentsoftware.com - Commonwealth Games 2010 - General". www.tournamentsoftware.com. Retrieved 2015-06-02.
  6. "tournamentsoftware.com - Yonex BWF World Championships 2011 - General". www.tournamentsoftware.com. Retrieved 2015-06-02.
  7. "Australian Olympic badminton team named". Nine MSN. Retrieved 2012-06-19.
  8. "Aussies name badminton line-up – ABC Grandstand Sport (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)". Abc.net.au. 14 June 2012. Retrieved 2012-06-19.
  9. AAP (15 June 2012). "Bendigo's Warfe named in Olympic squad – Local News – Sport – Badminton". Bendigo Advertiser. Retrieved 2012-06-19.
  10. "London 2012 – Renuga Veeran". London2012.olympics.com.au. 20 June 1986. Retrieved 2012-06-19.
  11. "2012 London Olympics -- Eight badminton players disqualified for trying to lose matches". Retrieved 2015-06-02.
  12. "Aussies benefit from badminton tanking scandal". ABC Grandstand Sport. Retrieved 2015-06-02.
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 12/4/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.