Toby Penty (born 12 August 1992) is a retired English badminton player.Toby Penty: England number one on alopecia struggles, BBC Sport, 19 May 2020 He started playing badminton at aged 9, and won U-19 English National Championships in 2011. In 2010, he won junior titles in the Netherlands and Switzerland. In 2017, he won the Swedish International tournament in the men's singles event.

Penty competed at the 2019 European Games, 2020 Olympic Games and at the 2022 Commonwealth Games.

Penty announced his retirement on 6 September 2022. The 2022 BWF World Championships was his last tournament.

Personal life Penty has lost all of his hair on his body since November 2018, and it was diagnosed as alopecia.

Achievements

BWF Grand Prix (1 title) 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.

Men's singles Year Tournament Opponent Score Result 2017 Scottish Open Lucas Corvée 21–14, 24–22 Winner BWF Grand Prix Gold tournament BWF Grand Prix tournament

BWF International Challenge/Series (4 titles, 7 runners-up) Men's singles Year Tournament Opponent Score Result 2012 Polish International Kieran Merrilees 12–21, 18–21 Runner-up 2012 Swiss International Dieter Domke 14–21, 22–20, 18–21 Runner-up 2014 Welsh International Kieran Merrilees 15–21, 10–21 Runner-up 2015 Estonian International Anton Kaisti 16–21, 16–21 Runner-up 2015 Hellas International Fabian Roth 19–21, 21–19, 19–21 Runner-up 2017 Estonian International Raul Must 21–16, 22–24, 13–21 Runner-up 2017 Swedish International Setyaldi Putra Wibowo 21–12, 21–11 Winner 2017 Kharkiv International Lee Cheuk Yiu 21–17, 21–13 Winner 2018 Slovenian International Pablo Abián 21–18, 21–18 Winner 2018 Belgian International Victor Svendsen 21–13, 19–21, 21–19 Winner 2019 Spanish International Kunlavut Vitidsarn 14–21, 14–21 Runner-up BWF International Challenge tournament BWF International Series tournament BWF Future Series tournament

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