Tony Gunawan

Tony Gunawan (front) at the US Open 2011 (Photo: Sunny Wan)

Tony Gunawan (born April 9, 1975 in Surabaya , Indonesia ) is an Indonesian badminton player who has been playing for the US Badminton Association since 2002 .

Career

Gunawan won its first tournaments in 1997. In 2000 he was Olympic champion in doubles with Candra Wijaya for Indonesia, as well as in 2001 with Halim Haryanto for Indonesia and 2005 with Howard Bach for the USA world champion in doubles. In total, the doubles specialist won 35 doubles and five mixed titles with alternating players. At the turn of the millennium, he was world number one in doubles with various partners. He is considered one of the best doubles badminton players of his generation.

In 2002 Gunawan went to the United States to train and study IT, took a job as a coach at Orange County Badminton Club , and stopped playing as many tournaments. Gunawan joined the US federation and found a double partner in Vietnam-born Howard Bach , with whom he prepared for the 2005 World Championships in his new home in Los Angeles and won a world championship title for the country for the first time in the history of the US badminton could, for this achievement the doubles were awarded as US Team of the Year 2005 by the American NOK .

For the 2008 Olympic Games , however, he was not eligible to start for the US team because he could not be naturalized in time.

Awards

• USOC Athlete of the Year (USA; together with Howard Bach ): 2005

Sporting successes

season	event	discipline	space	Surname
1995	China Open	Men's doubles	3	Rudy Wijaya / Tony Gunawan
1996	Japan Open	Men's doubles	3	Tony Gunawan / Rudy Wijaya
1997	Copenhagen Masters	Men's doubles	1	Candra Wijaya / Tony Gunawan
1997	French Open	Men's doubles	1	Tony Gunawan / Victo Wibowo
1997	Polish International	Men's doubles	1	Tony Gunawan / Victo Wibowo
1998	Brunei Open	Men's doubles	1	Tony Gunawan / Halim Haryanto
1998	All of England	Men's doubles	2	Candra Wijaya / Tony Gunawan
1998	Hong Kong Open	Men's doubles	1	Candra Wijaya / Tony Gunawan
1998	Asian Championship	Men's doubles	3	Tony Gunawan / Halim Heryanto
1998	Malaysia Open	Men's doubles	1	Tony Gunawan / Halim Haryanto
1998	Swedish Open	Men's doubles	1	Candra Wijaya / Tony Gunawan
1998	Indonesia Open	Men's doubles	3	Candra Wijaya / Tony Gunawan
1999	Indonesia Open	Men's doubles	2	Candra Wijaya / Tony Gunawan
1999	Japan Open	Men's doubles	3	Tony Gunawan / Candra Wijaya
1999	All of England	Men's doubles	1	Tony Gunawan / Candra Wijaya
1999	Malaysia Open	Men's doubles	1	Tony Gunawan / Candra Wijaya
1999	Taiwan Open	Men's doubles	3	Candra Wijaya / Tony Gunawan
1999	World Championship	Men's doubles	5	Tony Gunawan / Candra Wijaya
2000	Japan Open	Men's doubles	1	Candra Wijaya / Tony Gunawan
2000	Olympia	Men's doubles	1	Candra Wijaya / Tony Gunawan
2000	All of England	Men's doubles	3	Candra Wijaya / Tony Gunawan
2000	Chinese Taipei Open	Men's doubles	1	Candra Wijaya / Tony Gunawan
2000	Asian Championship	Men's doubles	1	Rexy Mainaky / Tony Gunawan
2001	Indonesia Open	Men's doubles	2	Tony Gunawan / Halim Haryanto
2001	Singapore Open	Men's doubles	1	Tony Gunawan / Halim Haryanto
2001	World Championship	Men's doubles	1	Tony Gunawan / Halim Haryanto
2001	Japan Open	Men's doubles	3	Tony Gunawan / Halim Heryanto
2001	All of England	Men's doubles	1	Tony Gunawan / Halim Haryanto
2001	Southeast Asian Games	Men's doubles	2	Tony Gunawan / Bambang Suprianto
2001	Asian Championship	Men's doubles	2	Candra Wijaya / Tony Gunawan
2001	Asian Championship	Mixed	3	Tony Gunawan / Vita Marissa
2002	Boston Open	Men's doubles	1	Tony Gunawan / Khankham Malaythong
2002	US Open	Men's doubles	1	Tony Gunawan / Khankham Malaythong
2002	Puerto Rico International	Mixed	1	Tony Gunawan / Mesinee Mangkalakiri
2002	Puerto Rico International	Men's doubles	1	Tony Gunawan / Khankham Malaythong
2002	US Open	Mixed	1	Tony Gunawan / Eti Tantra
2003	US Open	Mixed	1	Tony Gunawan / Eti Gunawan
2003	USA: Individual Championships	Men's doubles	1	Tony Gunawan / Khan Malaythong
2003	Boston Open	Mixed	1	Tony Gunawan / Eti Tantra
2003	US Open	Men's doubles	1	Tony Gunawan / Khankham Malaythong
2004	Dutch Open	Men's doubles	1	Tony Gunawan / Howard Bach
2004	US Open	Men's doubles	1	Howard Bach / Tony Gunawan
2005	World Championship	Men's doubles	1	Tony Gunawan / Howard Bach
2005	Bitburger Open	Men's doubles	1	Tony Gunawan / Halim Haryanto
2005	Chinese Taipei Open	Men's doubles	1	Tony Gunawan / Halim Haryanto
2005	US Open	Men's doubles	1	Howard Bach / Tony Gunawan
2005	Chinese Taipei Open	Mixed	1	Tony Gunawan / Cheng Wen-Hsing
2005	Copenhagen Masters	Men's doubles	1	Tony Gunawan / Howard Bach
2006	Indonesia Open	Men's doubles	1	Candra Wijaya / Tony Gunawan
2006	Korea Open	Men's doubles	1	Tony Gunawan / Candra Wijaya
2006	Japan Open	Men's doubles	1	Candra Wijaya / Tony Gunawan
2006	US Open	Men's doubles	1	Halim Haryanto / Tony Gunawan
2007	Swiss Open	Men's doubles	3	Candra Wijaya / Tony Gunawan
2007	Japan Open	Men's doubles	1	Candra Wijaya / Tony Gunawan
2009	US Open	Men's doubles	1	Howard Bach / Tony Gunawan
2011	Pan American Games	Men's doubles	1	Howard Bach / Tony Gunawan

Web links

Commons : Tony Gunawan  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Gunawan's homepage ( Memento from April 29, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
• usabadminton.org

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Duff Wilson: " Badminton: The US's Great Indonesian (and Vietnamese, and Laotian) Hope ", The New York Times, June 19, 2008 ( visited August 13, 2008 ).
2. ↑ " USOC Named Howard Bach & Tony Gunawan as 2005 USOC Team of the Year ", press release of the US-NOK from April 6, 2006 ( visited August 13, 2008. )