Jorrit de Ruiter

Jorrit de Ruiter (born November 28, 1986 in Amsterdam) was a Dutch internationally elite badminton player who, until September 2015, was member of the Dutch National Badminton Team. After he had played in the 2015 World Championships in Jakarta he decided to put an end to his international career.

Jorrit de Ruiter
Jorrit de Ruiter (left) at the 2015 BWF World Championships
Personal information
Country Netherlands
Born (1986-11-28) 28 November 1986
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Highest ranking16 (in XD) (June 18, 2015)
Current rankingN/A
Medal record
Men's badminton
Representing  Netherlands
European Championships
2014 KazanMixed doubles
BWF profile
Updated on October 15, 2015.

De Ruiter was a doubles specialist. Until April 2013 he played the men's doubles together with Dave Khodabux (highest achieved world ranking 32). From that moment on he only played the mixed doubles with Samantha Barning who was his partner in this discipline since 2012 and with whom he achieved world ranking 24 in about a year’s time. In September 2013, Barning got seriously injured, the reason why they couldn’t play a considerable number of tournaments. Therefore, they fell far back on the world ranking. In February 2014 they started to play international tournaments again and came in third place at the European Championships in Kazan, Russia. His highest achieved ranking in the mixed doubles was 16.

De Ruiter trained full-time at the Dutch National Sports Centre Papendal. He was chairman of the athletes council of the Dutch Badminton Association and he has a bachelor's degree in sports marketing at Johan Cruyff University in Amsterdam.

Career

De Ruiter started to play badminton when he was seven years old at the Haarlem Badminton Club Duinwijck for which he played in different leagues until 2005. During this period he also joined the National Badminton Youth Team and 9 times he won a national youth championship (4 times mixed doubles, 3 times men's doubles and 2 times men's singles). In the season 2005/06, he played for the first time in the Premier League at the then premier league club Slotermeer in Amsterdam. One year later he joined the First team of BC Van Zijderveld in Amstelveen. In 2011, he returned to BC Duinwijck. As from the season 2012/13, de Ruiter played in the German premier league as club member of 1. BV Mülheim an der Ruhr. In 2016 he committed himself to BC Duinwijck again where he plays in the Dutch premier league. In March 2018 his team won the national championship in the premier league which is the 25th championship for the club. A year later de Ruiter is present again when his club also wins the final of the premier league season 2018-2019.

Achievements
Jorrit de Ruiter and Ilse Vaessen (NED)

European Championships

Mixed Doubles

Year Venue Partner Opponent Score Result
2014 Gymnastics Center, Kazan, Russia Samantha Barning Joachim Fischer Nielsen
Christinna Pedersen		 12–21, 8–21 Bronze

BWF Grand Prix

Mixed Doubles

Year Tournament Partner Opponent Score Result
2014 Dutch Open Samantha Barning Riky Widianto
Richi Puspita Dili		 10–11, 11–10, 11–9, 8–11, 1–11 Runner-up
2014 Canada Open Samantha Barning Max Schwenger
Carla Nelte		 18–21, 21–23 Runner-up
2013 Canada Open Samantha Barning Lee Chun Hei
Chau Hoi Wah		 13–21, 10–21 Runner-up
     BWF Grand Prix Gold tournament
     BWF Grand Prix tournament

BWF International Challenge/Series

Men's doubles

Year Tournament Partner Opponent Score Result
2012 Spanish Open Dave Khodabux Jacco Arends
Jelle Maas		 21–16, 21–23, 21–13 Winner
2012 Dutch International Dave Khodabux Nelson Wei Keat Heg
Teo Ee Yi		 21–17, 19–21, 21–23 Runner-up
2012 Swedish Masters Dave Khodabux Vladimir Ivanov
Ivan Sozonov		 16–21, 9–21 Runner-up
2012 Estonian International Dave Khodabux Laurent Constantin
Sebastien Vincent		 17–21, 21–19, 15–21 Runner-up
2011 Slovak Open Dave Khodabux Lukasz Moren
Wojciech Szkudlarczyk		 21–10, 22–20 Winner

Mixed doubles

Year Tournament Partner Opponent Score Result
2012 Irish International Samantha Barning Jacco Arends
Ilse Vaessen		 22–20, 21–17 Winner
2012 Norwegian International Samantha Barning Michael Fuchs
Birgit Michels		 16–21, 23–21, 21–19 Winner
2012 Estonian International Samantha Barning Dave Khodabux
Selena Piek		 7–21, 12–21 Runner-up
2011 Belgian International Selena Piek Chayut Triyachart
Yao Lei		 25–23, 16–21, 14–21 Runner-up
2008 Welsh International Ilse Vaessen Watson Briggs
Jillie Cooper		 19–21, 18–21 Runner-up
2007 Welsh International Ilse Vaessen Adam Cwalina
Malgorzata Kurdelska		 16–21, 19–21 Runner-up
     BWF International Challenge tournament
     BWF International Series tournament

References
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