Cheryl Seinen

Career Cheryl started playing badminton at a young age, brought to the sports hall by her parents, who were both former badminton players and now coaches in the Dutch city of Roermond. When she was 13 years old she moved away from her home to the Western part of the Netherlands to play badminton in Amstelveen for van Zijderveld. At age 15 she was called upon to join the Dutch National juniors squad in Papendal. After two and a half years she was removed from the National team, but fought her way back to the top and back into the National squad. Seinen has won the women's doubles events in Romania, Scotland, Slovakia, Switzerland, Belgium, Ireland and the Netherlands, and has also won mixed doubles events in Scandinavia. She won her home event, the Dutch Open twice with Debora Jille in 2022 and 2023 after finishing runners-up two times in 2018 (with Selena Piek) and 2021 (with Debora Jille). Together with Selena Piek she reached the semi-finals at the Thailand Masters (BWF World Tour Super 300) in 2019 and also the semi-finals at the All England in 2021 (BWF World Tour Super 1000). She competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics winning two matches and losing one match in group B, losing the quarter final match against the Korean opponents of Lee So-hee and Shin Seung-chan 8-21, 17-21. She has won the women's doubles title a total of six times at the Dutch National Badminton Championships from 2017 till 2020 with Selena Piek and in 2022 and 2023 together with current partner Debora Jille; and she has also won the mixed doubles title twice in 2017 and 2018 with Robin Tabeling. In the Dutch Eredivisie league, she is playing for BV Almere, while in Denmark in the Elite league her club is Vendsyssel Badminton Club.

Achievements

European Games Women's doubles Year Venue Partner Opponent Score Result Ref

is a series of elite badminton tournaments sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation (BWF). The BWF World Tour is divided into levels of World Tour Finals, Super 1000, Super 750, Super 500, Super 300, and the BWF Tour Super 100.

Women's doubles Year Tournament Level Partner Opponent Score Result 2018 Dutch Open Super 100 Selena Piek Gabriela Stoeva Stefani Stoeva 17–21, 18–21 Runner-up

BWF Grand Prix (1 title) The BWF Grand Prix had two levels, the Grand Prix and Grand Prix Gold. It was a series of badminton tournaments sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation (BWF) and played between 2007 and 2017.

Women's doubles Year Tournament Partner Opponent Score Result 2017 Scottish Open Selena Piek Ekaterina Bolotova Alina Davletova 15–21, 21–15, 21–11 Winner BWF Grand Prix Gold tournament BWF Grand Prix tournament

BWF International Challenge/Series (11 titles, 6 runners-up) Women's doubles Year Tournament Partner Opponent Score Result 2014 Slovak Open Katarina Galenić Magdalena Witek Aneta Wojtkowska 11–7, 11–9, 5–11, 11–7 Winner 2015 Dutch International Gayle Mahulette Myke Halkema Lisa Malaihollo 21–14, 23–21 Winner 2015 Slovak Open Gayle Mahulette Nika Arih Petra Polanc 21–13, 21–16 Winner 2015 Finnish International Alida Chen Clara Nistad Emma Wengberg 16–21, 20–22 Runner-up 2016 Romanian International Jessica Pugh Goh Yea Ching Peck Yen Wei 21–19, 21–15 Winner 2016 Slovenia International Jessica Pugh Chloe Birch Sarah Walker 20–22, 19–21 Runner-up 2016 Swiss International Iris Tabeling Amelia Alicia Anscelly Teoh Mei Xing 13–21, 22–20, 21–10 Winner 2017 Belgian International Selena Piek Debora Jille Imke van der Aar 21–14, 21–16 Winner 2021 Dutch Open Debora Jille Johanna Magnusson Clara Nistad 21–17, 14–21, 12–21 Runner-up 2021 Irish Open Debora Jille Chen Hsuan-yu Gronya Somerville 15–21, 21–14, 21–14 Winner 2022 Dutch Open Debora Jille Chloe Birch Lauren Smith 5–10 retired Winner 2023 Dutch Open Debora Jille Julie Finne-Ipsen Mai Surrow 21–9, 21–13 Winner

Mixed doubles Year Tournament Partner Opponent Score Result 2014 Norwegian International Anton Kaisti Filip Michael Duwall Myhren Emma Wengberg 21–15, 17–21, 21–14 Winner 2016 Iceland International Anton Kaisti Paweł Pietryja Aneta Wojtkowska 22–20, 21–18 Winner 2016 Irish Open Robin Tabeling Mathias Christiansen Sara Thygesen 16–21, 16–21 Runner-up 2017 Spanish International Robin Tabeling Sam Magee Chloe Magee 11–21, 18–21 Runner-up 2019 Brazil International Jacco Arends Robin Tabeling Selena Piek 21–16, 21–23, 17–21 Runner-up BWF International Challenge tournament BWF International Series tournament BWF Future Series tournament