Kunlavut Vitidsarn

Kunlavut Vitidsarn
Vitidsarn in 2018
Personal information
Nickname(s)View
Three-Game God
CountryThailand
Born (2001-05-11) 11 May 2001 (age 23)
Chonburi, Thailand[1]
Height1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)
HandednessRight
CoachPatapol Ngernsrisuk[2]
Men's singles
Career record321 wins, 101 losses
Highest ranking3 (6 June 2023)
Current ranking6 (15 October 2024)
Medal record
Men's badminton
Representing  Thailand
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2024 Paris Men's singles
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2023 Copenhagen Men's singles
Silver medal – second place 2022 Tokyo Men's singles
SEA Games
Gold medal – first place 2021 Vietnam Men's team
Gold medal – first place 2021 Vietnam Men's singles
World Junior Championships
Gold medal – first place 2017 Yogyakarta Boys' singles
Gold medal – first place 2018 Markham Boys' singles
Gold medal – first place 2019 Kazan Boys' singles
Bronze medal – third place 2016 Bilbao Mixed team
Bronze medal – third place 2019 Kazan Mixed team
Asian Junior Championships
Gold medal – first place 2019 Suzhou Boys' singles
Gold medal – first place 2019 Suzhou Mixed team
Silver medal – second place 2018 Jakarta Boys' singles
Bronze medal – third place 2017 Jakarta Boys' singles
Representing International Olympic Committee Mixed-NOCs
Youth Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2018 Buenos Aires Mixed team
BWF profile

Kunlavut Vitidsarn (Thai: กุลวุฒิ วิทิตศานต์; simply known as View (Thai: วิว); born 11 May 2001) is a Thai badminton player.[3] He is the current men's singles World Champion as he won the gold medal at the 2023 World Championships,[4] and a silver medalist at the 2024 Olympic Games.[5] He was also three-times World Junior champion, winning in 2017, 2018 and 2019.[6][7][8] He is nicknamed the "Three-Game God" because his playing style requires him to play three games long and always win in the end.[9]

Vitidsarn became the first men's singles player to win three World Junior Championships titles, joining Ratchanok Intanon and Chen Qingchen as a three-time winner of the World Junior title in the same discipline.[10] He claimed the gold medal at the Asian Junior Championships in 2019, where he previously won a silver in 2018 and bronze in 2017.[11] Vitidsarn participated at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics, and was part of the team Omega took the silver medal in the mixed team event.[12] He was named the 2020/2021 Eddy Choong Most Promising Player.[13]

In the senior category, Vitidsarn won the silver medal at the 2022 World Championships and, in the following year, the gold medal at the 2023 World Championships.[14] He became the first Thai player to win the World Championships title in the men's singles category.[4] Vitidsarn clinched the gold medal at the 2021 SEA Games.[15] He reached a career high of world number 3 in June 2023.[16]

Career

2016–2019: Asian Junior champion and thrice World Junior champions

Vitidsarn exhibited promising performances throughout his junior-level tournament. He won junior tournaments including the boys' singles title in the Banthongyord Junior International and Singapore Youth International,[17] and also the Junior Grand Prix title in Jaya Raya (Indonesia) and India in 2017.[18][19] In the same year, he won the bronze medal at the Asian Junior Championships.[20] He followed up his impressive showing in the World Junior Championships with a gold medal win.[6]

In 2018, Vitidsarn won three Junior Grand Prix title in the Netherlands, Germany, and Indonesia.[21][22] He managed to defend his title in the Banthongyord Junior International and double the title by winning the mixed doubles with Phittayaporn Chaiwan. He then upgraded his medal in the Asian Junior Championships to silver, losing the finals to Lakshya Sen.[23] However, he managed to defend his World Junior titles.[7] He competed in the Summer Youth Olympics in Argentina, managed to bring the silver medal in the mixed team event together with Omega team.[12] Even though he is only 17 years old, Vitidsarn has been able to compete in senior tournaments, as proven by his achievement as he finished as finalists in the India International then won the Nepal International.[24][25]

In his final year in the junior circuit in 2019, Vitidsarn managed to win double title and defend his boys' singles and mixed doubles title in the Banthongyord Junior International.[26] He finally won a gold medal at the Asian Junior Championships, becoming the frist ever Thai to win the boys' singles title, and addition a gold in the team event.[11][27] Vitidsarn successfully defended his World Junior Champions title for the third time,[8] became the first men's singles player to win three World Junior Championships titles, joining Ratchanok Intanon and Chen Qingchen as a three-time winner of the World Junior title in the same discipline.[10] He also won four International Challenge title in Iran Fajr International,[28] Polish Open,[29] Finnish Open,[30] and Spanish International.[31]

2020–2022: World Championship silver medalist

Vitidsarn began the 2020 season as semi-finalist in the Thailand Masters.[32] He then entered the finals of the Spain Masters losing to Viktor Axelsen.[33] In his debut at the All England Open, he was stopped in the first round to Lin Dan in rubber games.[34] Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, numerous tournaments on the 2020 BWF World Tour were either cancelled or rescheduled for later in the year. He played at the Super 1000 Yonex and Toyota Thailand Open but was eliminated in the second round in both tournaments.[35] His best result in 2021 was being finalists in the Swiss Open and in the Indonesia badminton festival the World Tour Finals, where he was defeated by Axelsen.[36][37]

In 2022, Vitidsarn won his first title of the year in the German Open.[38] At the 2021 SEA Games, he won two gold medals in both the singles and team events.[15][39][40] Competed as the seed 16, Vitidsarn claimed the silver medal in the World Championships, where in the finals he lost to Axelesen in straight game.[14]

2023: World Championships title, world number 3

A good start in the 2023 season was shown by Vitidsarn by becoming semi-finalists in the Malaysia Open losing the match to Kodai Naraoka in a close rubber games lasted for an hour 53-minutes.[41] He then beating the current world number 1 Viktor Axelsen to claimed his first title of the year in the India Open.[42] He then becoming the fourth Thai men's singles player to win the home soil title the Thailand Open in early June.[43] In the following week, he suffered an injury during the semi-finals in the Singapore Open against Anthony Sinisuka Ginting.[44] In July, he finished runner-up in the U.S. Open.[45] Vitidsarn's finest hour in his career came at the 2023 World Championships. In the final, he prevailed as he defeated Naraoka in a rubber game to win the gold medal, and achieved his highest BWF world ranking of third in the men's singles category.[16] His victory at the World Championships, making him Thailand's third gold medal winner during the World Championships since it was first held in 1977.[4][16] Vitidsarn competed in the Hangzhou 2022 Asian Games, but failed to win medal both in the team and individual event.[46] He qualified to compete at the World Tour Finals as the World Champions,[47] but was eliminated in the group stage.[48] He closed the year as world number 7.

2024: Olympic silver

Vitidsarn achieved a significant milestone by winning a silver medal at the Paris 2024 Olympics, after advancing to the final by defeating world number one Shi Yuqi of China.[49] He was ultimately bested by Denmark's Viktor Axelsen in the gold medal match.[50] His silver medal made him the first Thai athlete to earn an olympic medal in badminton.[5] In the BWF World Tour, his best results was being finalist in the French Open.[51]

Achievements

Olympic Games

Men's singles

Year Venue Opponent Score Result Ref
2024 Porte de La Chapelle Arena, Paris, France Denmark Viktor Axelsen 11–21, 11–21 Silver [5]

BWF World Championships

Men's singles

Year Venue Opponent Score Result Ref
2022 Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium, Tokyo, Japan Denmark Viktor Axelsen 5–21, 16–21 Silver Silver [14]
2023 Royal Arena, Copenhagen, Denmark Japan Kodai Naraoka 19–21, 21–18, 21–7 Gold Gold [4]

Southeast Asian Games

Men's singles

Year Venue Opponent Score Result Ref
2021 Bac Giang Gymnasium, Bắc Giang, Vietnam Singapore Loh Kean Yew 21–13, 21–13 Gold Gold [15]

BWF World Junior Championships

Boys' singles

Year Venue Opponent Score Result Ref
2017 Among Rogo Sports Hall, Yogyakarta, Indonesia Malaysia Leong Jun Hao 17–21, 21–15, 21–9 Gold Gold [6]
2018 Markham Pan Am Centre, Markham, Canada Japan Kodai Naraoka 21–9, 21–11 Gold Gold [7]
2019 Kazan Gymnastics Center, Kazan, Russia France Christo Popov 21–8, 21–11 Gold Gold [8]

Asian Junior Championships

Boys' singles

Year Venue Opponent Score Result Ref
2017 Jaya Raya Sports Hall Training Center, Jakarta, Indonesia Malaysia Leong Jun Hao 21–19, 14–21, 21–23 Bronze Bronze [20]
2018 Jaya Raya Sports Hall Training Center, Jakarta, Indonesia India Lakshya Sen 19–21, 18–21 Silver Silver [23]
2019 Suzhou Olympic Sports Centre, Suzhou, China China Liu Liang 21–14, 21–13 Gold Gold [11][27]

BWF World Tour (3 titles, 5 runners-up)

The BWF World Tour, which was announced on 19 March 2017 and implemented in 2018,[52] is a series of elite badminton tournaments sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation (BWF). The BWF World Tour is divided into levels of World Tour Finals, Super 1000, Super 750, Super 500, Super 300, and the BWF Tour Super 100.[53]

Men's singles

Year Tournament Level Opponent Score Result Ref
2020 Spain Masters Super 300 Denmark Viktor Axelsen 16–21, 13–21 2nd place, silver medalist(s) Runner-up [33]
2021 Swiss Open Super 300 Denmark Viktor Axelsen 16–21, 6–21 2nd place, silver medalist(s) Runner-up [36]
2021 BWF World Tour Finals World Tour Finals Denmark Viktor Axelsen 12–21, 8–21 2nd place, silver medalist(s) Runner-up [37]
2022 German Open Super 300 India Lakshya Sen 21–18, 21–15 1st place, gold medalist(s) Winner [38]
2023 India Open Super 750 Denmark Viktor Axelsen 22–20, 10–21, 21–12 1st place, gold medalist(s) Winner [42]
2023 Thailand Open Super 500 Hong Kong Lee Cheuk Yiu 21–12, 21–10 1st place, gold medalist(s) Winner [43]
2023 U.S. Open Super 300 China Li Shifeng 15–21, 18–21 2nd place, silver medalist(s) Runner-up [45]
2024 French Open Super 750 China Shi Yuqi 20–22, 19–21 2nd place, silver medalist(s) Runner-up [51]

BWF International Challenge/Series (5 titles, 2 runners-up)

Men's singles

Year Tournament Opponent Score Result Ref
2018 India International India Lakshya Sen 15–21, 10–21 2nd place, silver medalist(s) Runner-up [24]
2018 Nepal International Malaysia Soo Teck Zhi 20–22, 22–20, 21–9 1st place, gold medalist(s) Winner [25]
2019 Iran Fajr International China Li Shifeng 21–18, 21–17 1st place, gold medalist(s) Winner [28]
2019 Polish Open India Lakshya Sen 21–17, 21–14 1st place, gold medalist(s) Winner [29]
2019 Finnish Open Chinese Taipei Lin Chun-yi 21–16, 18–21, 21–14 1st place, gold medalist(s) Winner [30]
2019 Spanish International England Toby Penty 21–14, 21–14 1st place, gold medalist(s) Winner [31]
2019 Mongolia International Japan Kodai Naraoka 21–9, 17–21, 21–23 2nd place, silver medalist(s) Runner-up [54]
  BWF International Challenge tournament
  BWF International Series tournament
  BWF Future Series tournament

BWF Junior International (11 titles, 2 runners-up)

Boys' singles

Year Tournament Opponent Score Result Ref
2017 Banthongyord Junior International Malaysia Fong Hau Sim 21–14, 21–13 1st place, gold medalist(s) Winner
2017 Jaya Raya Junior International Indonesia Ikhsan Rumbay 21–17, 21–7 1st place, gold medalist(s) Winner [18]
2017 India Junior International India B. M. Rahul Bharadwaj 21–16, 21–11 1st place, gold medalist(s) Winner [19]
2017 Singapore Youth International Singapore Joel Koh 21–13, 21–13 1st place, gold medalist(s) Winner [17]
2018 Dutch Junior International China Li Shifeng 21–18, 21–14 1st place, gold medalist(s) Winner
2018 German Junior International China Li Shifeng 21–15, 21–11 1st place, gold medalist(s) Winner [21]
2018 Jaya Raya Junior International Indonesia Ikhsan Rumbay 21–14, 21–9 1st place, gold medalist(s) Winner [22]
2018 Banthongyord Junior International Singapore Jason Teh 21–16, 21–15 1st place, gold medalist(s) Winner
2019 Banthongyord Junior International Indonesia Bobby Setiabudi 21–16, 26–24 1st place, gold medalist(s) Winner [26]

Boys' doubles

Year Tournament Partner Opponent Score Result Ref
2015 White Nights Junior International Thailand Pacharapol Nipornram Russia Rodion Alimov
Russia Pavel Kotsarenko 		21–14, 21–23, 13–21 2nd place, silver medalist(s) Runner-up
2017 India Junior International Thailand Pacharapol Nipornram Indonesia Rehan Naufal Kusharjanto
Indonesia Rinov Rivaldy 		9–21, 13–21 2nd place, silver medalist(s) Runner-up [19]

Mixed doubles

Year Tournament Partner Opponent Score Result Ref
2018 Banthongyord Junior International Thailand Phittayaporn Chaiwan Japan Hiroki Midorikawa
Japan Natsu Saito 		23–21, 21–18 1st place, gold medalist(s) Winner
2019 Banthongyord Junior International Thailand Phittayaporn Chaiwan China Di Zijian
China Li Yijing 		21–11, 21–17 1st place, gold medalist(s) Winner [26]
  BWF Junior International Grand Prix tournament
  BWF Junior International Challenge tournament
  BWF Junior International Series tournament
  BWF Junior Future Series tournament

Performance timeline

Key
W F SF QF #R RR Q# A G S B NH N/A DNQ
(W) won; (F) finalist; (SF) semi-finalist; (QF) quarter-finalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (A) absent; (G) gold, (S) silver or (B) bronze medal; (NH) not held; (N/A) not applicable; (DNQ) did not qualify.
To avoid confusion and double counting, these charts are updated at the conclusion of a tournament or when the player's participation has ended.

National team

  • Junior level
Team events 2017 2018 2019 Ref
Asian Junior Championships QF QF G [27]
World Junior Championships 7th 9th B
  • Senior level
Team events 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 Ref
SEA Games A NH A NH G NH A NH [40]
Asia Team Championships NH A NH QF NH A NH A
Asia Mixed Team Championships A A NH A NH
Asian Games NH A NH QR NH
Thomas Cup NH RR NH QF NH RR NH RR
Sudirman Cup A NH A NH QF NH QF NH

Individual competitions

  • Junior level
Events 2016 2017 2018 2019 Ref
Asian Junior Championships A B S G [11][20][23][27][55]
World Junior Championships 4R G G G [6][7][8]
  • Senior level
Events 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 Ref
SEA Games A NH A NH G NH A NH [15][39]
Asian Championships A NH A 2R QF
Asian Games NH A NH 3R NH .[46]
World Championships DNQ NH 1R S G NH [4][14]
Olympic Games NH DNQ NH S [5]
Tournament BWF SS / GP BWF World Tour Best Ref
2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024
Malaysia Open A NH SF SF 2R SF ('22, '23) [41]
India Open A NH A W 2R W ('23) [42][56]
Indonesia Masters A NH A QF 1R A SF SF ('24)
Thailand Masters NH A 2R A 1R SF NH A SF ('20) [32]
German Open A NH W 1R A W ('22) [38][57]
French Open A NH 1R QF QF F F ('24) [58]
All England Open A 1R 1R 2R 2R 2R 2R ('22, '23, '24) [34]
Orléans Masters A 3R NH SF A SF ('21)
Swiss Open A NH F A F ('21) [36][59]
Spain Masters A F A NH A F ('20) [33]
Thailand Open 1R A 3R A 2R NH A W SF W ('23) [35][43][60]
2R
Malaysia Masters A NH w/d 2R w/d 2R ('23)
Singapore Open A NH A SF A SF ('23) [44]
Indonesia Open A NH 1R 1R w/d SF SF ('24)
U.S. Open A NH F A F ('23) [45][61]
Canada Open A NH A 1R A 1R ('23)
Japan Open A NH 2R QF w/d QF ('23)
Korea Open A 1R NH QF A QF ('22)
Chinese Taipei Open A 1R NH A 1R ('19)
Vietnam Open A 2R 1R A 2R NH A 2R ('16, '19)
Hong Kong Open A NH w/d A –
China Open A NH w/d SF SF ('24)
Macau Open A QF NH A QF ('19)
Arctic Open N/A NH 1R SF SF ('24)
Denmark Open A 1R 1R 1R 1R 1R ('21, '22, '23, '24)
Hylo Open A QF QF A QF ('21, '22)
Korea Masters A 2R NH A 2R ('19)
China Masters A NH 2R 2R ('23)
Syed Modi International A QF NH A QF ('18)
Superseries / Tour Finals DNQ F DNQ RR F ('21) [37][48]
Year-end ranking 639 421 219 124 40 29 20 10 7 3 [16]
Tournament 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 Best Ref

Record against selected opponents

Record against year-end Finals finalists, World Championships semi-finalists, and Olympic quarter-finalists.

Accurate as of 4 November 2024.[62]

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