Aditya Joshi

Aditya Joshi (born 7 August 1996) is an Indian badminton player. He is the first male Indian junior badminton player who ranked first place in the world junior rankings.

Career Joshi comes from Uttarakhand, India. Joshi got the number one slot in the junior rankings of the World Badminton Federation in January 2014. He was at the 11th position till November 2013, but he managed to jump ahead of all the players by achieving 18,776 points and got top ranked in the world. Joshi was the junior national champion in year 2013 and had won two gold medals in Indian junior international tournament. In 2012 he participated at the India Open Grand Prix Gold.

Aditya started playing badminton in 2001 when he was only five and very soon, he started winning in the categories above his age in the local tournaments. He clinched the gold in Remensco Junior International tournament held in Russia in 2011. During the same year, he won a gold medal in Asian Sub-Junior championship held in Japan.

Achievements BWF International +Men's singles Year Tournament Opponent Score Result 2016 Bahrain International Pratul Joshi 17–21, 21–12, 15–21 Runner-up 2017 Ethiopia International Misha Zilberman 7–21, 19–21 Runner-up BWF International Challenge tournament BWF International Series tournament BWF Future Series tournament

BWF Junior International +Boys' singles Year Tournament Opponent Score Result 2011 Ramenskoe Junior International Sergey Sirant 16–21, 18–21 Runner-up 2013 India Junior International M. Kanishq 22–20, 21–15 Winner

+Boys' doubles Year Tournament Partner Opponent Score Result 2011 Ramenskoe Junior International Harsheel Dani Kirill Boyarsky Dmitry Imankulov 21–19, 18–21, 21–16 Winner 2013 India Junior International Arun George M. R. Arjun Chirag Shetty 21–17, 21–12 Winner BWF Junior International Grand Prix tournament BWF Junior International Challenge tournament BWF Junior International Series tournament BWF Junior Future Series tournament