Kevin Dennerly-Minturn

Kevin James Dennerly-Minturn (born 18 May 1989) is a New Zealand badminton player. In 2014, he competed at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland.

Career Dennerly-Minturn is an Auckland player on the international circuit and is also from the College Rifles badminton club. He comes from a sporting family and from an early age he was gifted at a number of sports including cricket but pursued his badminton and is now player in the New Zealand doubles set up. He is based in Denmark for most of the year playing and training in the across Europe

In 2008, he was the semi-finals in the men's and mixed doubles event at the Oceania Championships and won bronze. He also won bronze in 2014 and silver in 2015 in the men's doubles event partnered with Oliver Leydon-Davis. Partner with Oliver, he won the 2012 Auckland and 2013 Mexico International tournaments. In the mixed doubles, he won the Waikato International tournament teamed up with Susannah Leydon-Davis.

In 2017, he won the silver medal at the Oceania Championships in the men's doubles event partnered with Niccolo Tagle. In the mixed doubles event, he teamed-up with Danielle Tahuri, and they reach the semi-final round but was defeated by the top seeds from Australia.

In recent times Kevin has undertaken endurance sports, culminating in the completion of the Western Australia Ironman with a time of 16 hours 43 minutes.

Achievements

Oceania Championships Men's doubles Year Venue Partner Opponent Score Result 2008 Salle Veyret,Nouméa, New Caledonia Joe Wu Ross Smith Glenn Warfe 15–21, 9–21 Bronze Bronze 2012 Ken Kay Badminton Hall,Ballarat, Australia Oliver Leydon-Davis Ross Smith Glenn Warfe 17–21, 18–21 Silver Silver 2014 Ken Kay Badminton Hall,Ballarat, Australia Oliver Leydon-Davis Matthew Chau Sawan Serasinghe 15–21, 19–21 Bronze Bronze 2015 X-TRM North Harbour Badminton Centre,Auckland, New Zealand Oliver Leydon-Davis Matthew Chau Sawan Serasinghe 21–10, 16–21, 13–21 Silver Silver 2017 Salle Anewy,Nouméa, New Caledonia Niccolo Tagle Matthew Chau Sawan Serasinghe 8–21, 14–21 Silver Silver

Mixed doubles Year Venue Partner Opponent Score Result 2008 Salle Veyret,Nouméa, New Caledonia Emma Rodgers Craig Cooper Renee Flavell 21–19, 17–21, 10–21 Bronze Bronze 2017 Salle Anewy,Nouméa, New Caledonia Danielle Tahuri Sawan Serasinghe Setyana Mapasa 8–21, 11–21 Bronze Bronze

BWF International Challenge/Series Men's doubles Year Tournament Partner Opponent Score Result 2009 Nouméa International Joe Wu Oliver Leydon-Davis Henry Tam 17–21, 24–22, 16–21 Runner-up 2011 Altona International Oliver Leydon-Davis Ross Smith Glenn Warfe 17–21, 13–21 Runner-up 2012 Auckland International Oliver Leydon-Davis Tom Armstrong Tjitte Weistra 21–18, 22–20 Winner 2013 Internacional Mexicano Oliver Leydon-Davis Job Castillo Antonio Ocegueda 17–21, 21–12, 21–6 Winner 2018 North Harbour International Oliver Leydon-Davis Jonathan Curtin Dhanny Oud 21–13, 21–14 Winner

Mixed doubles Year Tournament Partner Opponent Score Result 2009 Nouméa International Louise McKenzie Henry Tam Donna Haliday 19–21, 15–21 Runner-up 2011 Altona International Stephanie Cheng Glenn Warfe Leanne Choo 20–22, 11–21 Runner-up 2016 Waikato International Susannah Leydon-Davis Abhinav Manota Justine Villegas 21–13, 21–14 Winner BWF International Challenge tournament BWF International Series tournament BWF Future Series tournament