Saralee Thungthongkam

Saralee Thungthongkam
Personal information
Nickname(s) Som ส้ม
Country Thailand
Born 13 June 1979 (1979-06-13) (age 37)
Bangkok, Thailand

Captain Saralee Thungthongkam (born 13 June 1979, Thai: สราลีย์ ทุ่งทองคำ ผู้พัน หรือน.อ.ส้ม; rtgs: Sarali Thungthongkham) is a female badminton player from Thailand. She graduate a master of communication arts from Bangkok University

At the 2000 Summer Olympics, she reached the second round of the women's doubles with Sujitra Ekmongkolpaisarn, and the second round of the mixed doubles with Khunakorn Sudhisodhi.[1]

Thungthongkam competed in badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics in women's doubles with partner Sathinee Chankrachangwong.[2] They defeated Denyse Julien and Anna Rice of Canada in the first round and Chikako Nakayama and Keiko Yoshimoti of Japan in the second. In the quarterfinals, Thungthongkam and Chankrachangwong lost to Zhang Jiewen and Yang Wei of China 15-2, 15-4.

Thungthongkam also competed in mixed doubles with partner Sudket Prapakamol. They had a bye in the first run and were defeated by Frederik Bergstrom and Johanna Persson of Sweden in the round of 16.

At the 2008 Summer Olympics, she only competed in the mixed doubles, again with Sudket Prapakamol. They reached the quarter finals, losing to the Indonesian pair of Nova Widianto and Liliyana Natsir, who went on to win the silver medal.[3]

She competed in the mixed doubles again at the 2012 Summer Olympics, where she again reached the quarter finals with Prapakamol. This time they lost to Christinna Pedersen and Joachim Fischer of Denmark.[4]

Achievements

Mixed Doubles

Year Tournament Partner Opponent in final Score Result
2015 Dutch Open Thailand Sudket Prapakamol France Ronan Labar
France Emilie Lefel
10-21, 18-21 Runner-up
2012 Indonesia Open Thailand Sudket Prapakamol Indonesia Tontowi Ahmad
Indonesia Liliyana Natsir
21-17, 17-21, 21-13 Winner
2012 Thailand Open Thailand Sudket Prapakamol China Tao Jiaming
China Tang Jinhua
14-21, 16-21 Runner-up
2012 India Open Thailand Sudket Prapakamol Indonesia Tontowi Ahmad
Indonesia Liliyana Natsir
16-21, 21-12, 14-21 Runner-up
2012 Swiss Open Thailand Sudket Prapakamol Indonesia Tontowi Ahmad
Indonesia Liliyana Natsir
16-21, 14-21 Runner-up
2011 Syed Modi International Thailand Sudket Prapakamol Indonesia Muhammad Rijal
Indonesia Debby Susanto
16–21, 21–18, 21–11 Winner
2011 Dutch Open Thailand Sudket Prapakamol Thailand Songphon Anugritayawon
Thailand Kunchala Voravichitchaikul
17-21, 22-24 Runner-up
2011 All England Thailand Sudket Prapakamol China Xu Chen
China Ma Jin
13-21, 9-21 Runner-up
2010 French Open Thailand Sudket Prapakamol Germany Michael Fuchs
Germany Birgit Michels
21-15, 21-15 Winner
2010 Malaysia Masters Thailand Sudket Prapakamol Indonesia Devin Lahardi Fitriawan
Indonesia Liliyana Natsir
21-13, 16-21, 17-21 Runner-up
2009 Thailand Open Thailand Sudket Prapakamol Thailand Songphon Anugritayawon
Thailand Kunchala Voravichitchaikul
21-11, 17-21, 14-21 Runner-up

Notes:

     Super Series Premier Tournament
     Super Series Tournament
     Grand Prix Gold Tournament
     Grand Prix Tournament

References

  1. "Saralee Thungthongkam at sports-reference.com". www.sports-reference.com. Retrieved 12 November 2014.
  2. "BBC Sport: Results – Badminton : doubles". bbc. 12 August 2004. Retrieved 2010-02-27.
  3. "Beijing 2008 – Badminton – Mixed Doubles". www.olympic.org. IOC. Retrieved 12 November 2014.
  4. "London 2012 – Badminton – Mixed Doubles". www.olympic.org. IOC. Retrieved 12 November 2014.

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