Tony Gunawan

Tony Gunawan
Personal information
Country	Indonesia  United States
Born	(1975-04-09) 9 April 1975 Surabaya, Indonesia
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Medal record Representing  Indonesia Badminton Olympic Games 2000 Sydney Men's Doubles World Championships 2001 Seville Men's doubles Representing  United States World Championships 2005 Anaheim Men's doubles Pan Am Games 2011 Guadalajara Men's Doubles
BWF profile

Tony Gunawan (Chinese: 吳俊明; pinyin: Wu Junming) (born 9 April 1975) is a Chinese descended, Indonesian born badminton player and coach who excelled internationally for Indonesia and later for the United States.

Career

Gunawan is a former Olympic gold medalist and world champion for Indonesia, and now represents the United States. He is regarded by many, including his peers, as one of the greatest doubles players in badminton's history.^[1] A superb all-court player with a particular facility in the forecourt, he won the 2000 Olympic gold medal, the 2001 IBF World Championships, and 2005 IBF World Championships with 3 different men's doubles partners.

He won the Men's Doubles gold medal in the 2005 World Championships from the 13th seeded position with his American partner Howard Bach. Gunawan partnered with Halim Haryanto to win the 2001 World Championships as well as the 2001 All-England Open, and with Candra Wijaya to win the 2000 Olympics in Sydney. He was a member of the world champion 2000 Indonesia Thomas Cup team, winning his match in the final against China with yet another partner, Rexy Mainaky.

Gunawan and Bach won the 2005 IBF World Championships Men's Doubles gold over Gunawan's ex-partner Wijaya and Sigit Budiarto who were also finalists in the 2003 IBF World Championships in the same event. Tony played for Indonesia from 1992–2001 and is the winner of numerous international titles. He has coached and played for USA since 2001. Tony is currently studying in Orange County, California and coaches at San Gabriel Badminton Club 2 (Pomona).

Achievements

Men's Doubles Titles (35)

No.	Date	Tournament (*Rating)	Partner	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	1997, March	French Open (A)	Victo Wibowo	Efraim Davis / Halim Haryanto	15-10, 15-8
2.	1997, March	Polish Open (1*)	Victo Wibowo	Rudy Wijaya / Seng Kok Keong	15-11, 15-6
3.	1997, December	Copenhagen Masters	Candra Wijaya	Simon Archer / Chris Hunt	15-13, 15-8
4.	1998, March	Swedish Open (3*)	Candra Wijaya	Yang Ming / Zhang Jun	15-3, 15-6
5.	1998, May	Thomas Cup	Team	Malaysia	3-1
6.	1998, July	Malaysia Open (5*)	Halim Haryanto	Liu Yong / Yu Jinhao	6-15, 15-5, 15-11
7.	1998, July	Brunei Open (4*)	Halim Haryanto	Michael Sogaard / Denny Kantono	15-2, 15-8
8.	1998, November	Hong Kong Open (5*)	Candra Wijaya	Jens Eriksen / Jesper Larsen	15-10, 15-9
9.	1999, March	All England Open (4*)	Candra Wijaya	Lee Dong-soo / Yoo Yong-sung	15-7, 15-8
10.	1999, July	Malaysia Open (5*)	Candra Wijaya	Flandy Limpele / Eng Hian	15-6, 15-11
11.	1999, November	Ipoh Masters	Candra Wijaya	Flandy Limpele / Eng Hian	15-11, 15-9
12.	1999, December	World Grand Prix Finals(7*)	Candra Wijaya	Kim Dong-moon / Ha Tae-kwon	15-7, 8-15, 15-11
13.	2000, April	Japan Open (5*)	Candra Wijaya	Lee Dong-soo / Yoo Yong-sung	15-6, 15-7
14.	2000, May	Thomas Cup	Rexy Mainaky	Chen Qiqiu / Yu Jinhao	3-0
15.	2000, July	Indonesia Open (5*)	Candra Wijaya	Flandy Limpele / Eng Hian	14-17, 15-6, 15-8
16.	2000, August	XXVII Olympics (7*)	Candra Wijaya	Lee Dong-soo / Yoo Yong-Sung	15-10, 9-15, 15-7
17.	2000, December	World Grand Prix Finals (7*)	Candra Wijaya	Halim Haryanto / Sigit Budiarto	7-5, 8-6, 7-2
18.	2001, March	All England Open (4*)	Halim Haryanto	Candra Wijaya / Sigit Budiarto	15-13, 7-15, 15-7
19.	2001, July	World Championships (7*)	Halim Haryanto	Kim Dong-moon / Ha Tae-kwon	15-0, 15-10
20.	2002, September	US Open (1*)	Bob Malaythong	Kevin Han / Howard Bach	11-15, 15-7, 15-7
21.	2002, September	Puerto Rico Open (A)	Bob Malaythong	Sergio Llopis / José Antonio Crespo	15-6, 15-3
22.	2002, December	SCBA Classic (A)	Bob Malaythong	Kevin Han / Howard Bach	15-10, 15-9
23.	2003, September	US Open (1*)	Bob Malaythong	Wei Hsiang Lin / Sung Yuan Lee	6-15, 15-4, 15-5
24.	2004, September	US Open (1*)	Howard Bach	Mathias Boe / Carsten Mogensen	15-5, 15-7
25.	2004, September	Dutch Open (2*)	Howard Bach	Peter Steffensen / Thomas Laybourn	15-8, 15-7
26.	2005, February	USA SCBA International (A)	Howard Bach	Bob Malaythong / Raju Rai	1-0 retired
27.	2005, August	World Championships (7*)	Howard Bach	Candra Wijaya / Sigit Budiarto	15-11, 10-15, 15-11
28.	2005, October	BitBurger German Open(1*)	Halim Haryanto	Mike Beres / William Milroy	15-3, 15-6
29.	2005, November	OCBC Yonex International (A)	Howard Bach	Mike Beres / William Milroy	15-1, 15-2
30.	2005, November	Chinese Taipei Open (3*)	Halim Haryanto	Mathias Boe / Carsten Mogensen	15-13, 15-13
31.	2005, December	Copenhagen Masters	Howard Bach	Fu Haifeng / Cai Yun	15-12, 11-15, 15-4
32.	2006, June	Indonesia Open (6*)	Candra Wijaya	Markis Kido / Hendra Setiawan	21-17, 21-16
33.	2006, August	US Open (1*)	Halim Haryanto	Alexander Nikolaenko / Vitaly Durkin	21-10, 21-19
34.	2006, September	Korea Open (6*)	Candra Wijaya	Lee Jae-jin / Hwang Ji-man	21-18, 21-18
35.	2006, October	Japan Open (5*)	Candra Wijaya	Koo Kien Keat / Tan Boon Heong	21-15, 21-14
36.	2007, September	Japan Super Series (SS)	Candra Wijaya	Luluk Hadiyanto / Alvent Yulianto Chandra	21-18, 21-17

Other Results

Mixed Doubles Titles (5)

No.	Date	Tournament (*Rating)	Partner	Opponent in the final	Score
1.	2002, September	US Open (1*)	Etty Tantri	Simon Archer / Marina Andrievskaya	7-11, 11-4, 11-6
2.	2002, September	Puerto Rico Open (A)	Mesinee Mangkalakiri	Tjitte Weistra / Dorianna Rivera	15-6, 15-3
3.	2002, December	SCBA Classic (1*)	Mesinee Mangkalakiri	Bob Malaythong / Lili Zhou	11-2, 13-10
4.	2003, September	US Open (1*)	Etty Tantri	Hwang Ji-man / Eun Woo Lee	15-5, 15-9
5.	2005, November	Taipei Open (3*)	Cheng Wen-Hsing	Devin Lahardi / Vita Marissa	17-15, 15-6

References

General

External links

• Tony Gunawan - Official Site