Blagovest Kisiov

Blagovest Georgiev Kisyov (; born 14 April 1986) is a Bulgarian badminton player.

Career Kisyov started playing badminton at the age of 10 in his home town of Parvomay. By 15, he moved to a club in a bigger city nearby in order to have better training conditions. He joined the junior national team at that time and started representing Bulgaria on various events. In 2005, he moved to Sofia and entered the National Sports Academy. In 2006, he started working as an assistant coach in the BWF Sofia training centre simultaneously while training with the national team players, and in the same year he won Bulgarian National Badminton Championships in men's doubles event. Unfortunately in 2009 he got injured in his back and had to quit playing for 1.5 years. He resumed training and competing in October 2010. He attended different training programmes and camps in Malaysia, Indonesia and Europe which has helped him obtain better knowledge and improve his game. In 2014, he became the runner-up at Hellas International in mixed doubles event and Hatzor International tournaments in men's singles event. In 2015, he participated at the 2015 European Games in men's singles event. He reached singles round of 16 after defeated by Scott Evans of Ireland in straight games 6-21, 13–21.

Achievements

BWF International Challenge/Series Men's singles Year Tournament Opponent Score Result 2014 Hatzor International Artem Pochtarev 0–0 Retired Runner-up

Men's doubles Year Tournament Partner Opponent Score Result 2006 Hellas International Georgi Petrov Kyle Holoboff Richard Liang –, – Winner 2006 Hungarian International Georgi Petrov Imanuel Hirschfeld Imam Sodikin 18–21, 9–21 Runner-up 2006 Banu Sport International Georgi Petrov Vladimir Metodiev Stilian Makarski 20–22, 19–21 Runner-up

Mixed doubles Year Tournament Partner Opponent Score Result 2014 Hellas International Dimitria Popstoikova Sam Magee Chloe Magee 14–21, 10–21 Runner-up 2012 Bulgaria Hebar Open Dimitria Popstoikova Roman Zirnwald Elisabeth Baldauf 14–21, 21–11, 19–21 Runner-up BWF International Challenge tournament BWF International Series tournament BWF Future Series tournament