Jorrit de Ruiter


Jorrit de Ruiter was a Dutch internationally elite badminton player who, until September 2015, was member of the Dutch National Badminton 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. 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. 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
YearVenuePartnerOpponentScoreResult
2014Gymnastics Center, Kazan, Russia Samantha Barning Joachim Fischer Nielsen
Christinna Pedersen		12–21, 8–21 Bronze

BWF Grand Prix

Mixed Doubles
YearTournamentPartnerOpponentScoreResult
2014Dutch Open Samantha Barning Riky Widianto
Richi Puspita Dili		10–11, 11–10, 11–9, 8–11, 1–11 Runner-up
2014Canada Open Samantha Barning Max Schwenger
Carla Nelte		18–21, 21–23 Runner-up
2013Canada Open Samantha Barning Lee Chun Hei
Chau Hoi Wah		13–21, 10–21 Runner-up

BWF International Challenge/Series

Men's doubles
YearTournamentPartnerOpponentScoreResult
2012Spanish Open Dave Khodabux Jacco Arends
Jelle Maas		21–16, 21–23, 21–13 Winner
2012Dutch International Dave Khodabux Nelson Wei Keat Heg
Teo Ee Yi		21–17, 19–21, 21–23 Runner-up
2012Swedish Masters Dave Khodabux Vladimir Ivanov
Ivan Sozonov		16–21, 9–21 Runner-up
2012Estonian International Dave Khodabux Laurent Constantin
Sebastien Vincent		17–21, 21–19, 15–21 Runner-up
2011Slovak Open Dave Khodabux Lukasz Moren
Wojciech Szkudlarczyk		21–10, 22–20 Winner

Mixed doubles
YearTournamentPartnerOpponentScoreResult
2012Irish International Samantha Barning Jacco Arends
Ilse Vaessen		22–20, 21–17 Winner
2012Norwegian International Samantha Barning Michael Fuchs
Birgit Michels		16–21, 23–21, 21–19 Winner
2012Estonian International Samantha Barning Dave Khodabux
Selena Piek		7–21, 12–21 Runner-up
2011Belgian International Selena Piek Chayut Triyachart
Yao Lei		25–23, 16–21, 14–21 Runner-up
2008Welsh International Ilse Vaessen Watson Briggs
Jillie Cooper		19–21, 18–21 Runner-up
2007Welsh International Ilse Vaessen Adam Cwalina
Malgorzata Kurdelska		16–21, 19–21 Runner-up