Jorrit de Ruiter (born 28 November 1986 in Amsterdam) is a Dutch internationally elite badminton player who, until September 2015, was member of the Dutch national team. After he had played in the 2015 World Championships in Jakarta he decided to put an end to his international career.
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
European Championships Mixed doubles Year Venue Partner Opponent Score Result2014Gymnastics Center,Kazan, Russia Samantha Barning Joachim Fischer Nielsen Christinna Pedersen12–21, 8–21 Bronze
BWF Grand Prix The BWF Grand Prix had two levels, the Grand Prix and Grand Prix Gold. It was a series of badminton tournaments sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation (BWF) and played between 2007 and 2017.
Mixed doubles Year Tournament Partner Opponent Score Result2013Canada Open Samantha Barning Lee Chun Hei Chau Hoi Wah13–21, 10–21 Runner-up2014Canada Open Samantha Barning Max Schwenger Carla Nelte18–21, 21–23 Runner-up2014Dutch Open Samantha Barning Riky Widianto Richi Puspita Dili10–11, 11–10, 11–9, 8–11, 1–11 Runner-up BWF Grand Prix Gold tournament BWF Grand Prix tournament
BWF International Challenge/Series Men's doubles Year Tournament Partner Opponent Score Result2011Slovak Open Dave Khodabux Łukasz Moreń Wojciech Szkudlarczyk21–10, 22–20 Winner2012Estonian International Dave Khodabux Laurent Constantin Sébastien Vincent17–21, 21–19, 15–21 Runner-up2012Swedish Masters Dave Khodabux Vladimir Ivanov Ivan Sozonov16–21, 9–21 Runner-up2012Dutch International Dave Khodabux Nelson Heg Teo Ee Yi21–19, 13–21, 9–21 Runner-up2012Spanish International Dave Khodabux Jacco Arends Jelle Maas21–16, 21–23, 21–13 Winner
Mixed doubles Year Tournament Partner Opponent Score Result2007Welsh International Ilse Vaessen Adam Cwalina Malgorzata Kurdelska16–21, 19–21 Runner-up2008Welsh International Ilse Vaessen Watson Briggs Jillie Cooper19–21, 18–21 Runner-up2011Belgian International Selena Piek Chayut Triyachart Yao Lei25–23, 16–21, 14–21 Runner-up2012Estonian International Samantha Barning Dave Khodabux Selena Piek7–21, 12–21 Runner-up2012Norwegian International Samantha Barning Michael Fuchs Birgit Michels16–21, 23–21, 21–19 Winner2012Irish International Samantha Barning Jacco Arends Ilse Vaessen22–20, 21–17 Winner BWF International Challenge tournament BWF International Series tournament
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