Hans-Kristian Vittinghus

Hans-Kristian Vittinghus
Hans-Kristian Vittinghus at the 2013 French Super Series.
Personal information
Country	Denmark
Born	January 16, 1986 Frederikshavn
Height	1.80 m
Weight	80 kg
Men's singles
Highest ranking	11 (June 19, 2014)
Current ranking	15 (April 30, 2016)
BWF profile

Hans-Kristian Vittinghus (born January 16, 1986) is a Danish badminton player. Currently sponsored by Carlton Sports, he previously used Yonex.

Career

Junior

He won 4 junior national titles, 2 in singles in 2003 and 2005 and 2 in men's doubles in 1999 and 2003. As a part of the Danish Under 19 national team, he won the gold medal at the Under 19 European Team Championships. He also won a bronze medal in the individual event in men's singles.

Senior

After becoming a senior player in the summer of 2005, he won his first international title in November 2006, beating former world no. 1, M. Roslin Hashim in the final of the Norwegian International Championships. Since then he has recaptured the title in Norway twice, in 2009 and 2010.

He also won the Turkiye International in 2007, Dutch International in 2008,^[1] Spanish Open in 2009 and Irish International in 2010.

Other notable results: Gold twice at the European Men's Team Championships playing for Denmark. In Almere 2008 and Warsaw 2010. Finalist of Bitburger Open GP Gold 2010. Quarter final in Yonex BWF World Championships 2011.

He plays in the Danish Badminton League. He played the first single for Team skaelskoer slagelse (TSS). Hans Kristian Vittinghus started playing badminton at the age of five in Solrød Strand Badmintonklub.

In November 2015, he won the Scottish Grand Prix in Glasgow, Scotland against English Rajiv Ouseph as the no.1 seed, 21-19, 11-21, 21-16. ^[2]

References

1. "Victor Dutch International 2008 winners". TournamentSoftware.com. Retrieved 2008-05-01.
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYVdvSjkfPQ, retrieved 2015-11-22 Missing or empty |title= (help)