Koen Ridder


Koen Ridder is a Dutch badminton player. The left handler Ridder, was a part of the Duinwijck badminton club. He won the men's doubles title at the national championships in 2009, 2011, and 2013 partnered with Ruud Bosch. Together with Bosch, they won some international tournament in Portugal, Belgium, Canada, Slovenia, Norway, Peru and Tahiti. He also play for the Düren 57 club in German. His parents, Rob and Marjan Ridder also a professional badminton players.
Koen Ridder was elected vice-chair of the athlete commission of the BWF for a 4-year term in May 2015. In 2017 Ridder was chosen as Chair by his fellow commission members. He achieved his personal best world ranking of 22 in 2013. Koen retired as a professional player in 2014 after representing The Netherlands for more than 10 years at international level.

Achievements

BWF International Challenge/Series

Men's doubles
YearTournamentPartnerOpponentScoreResult
2014Norwegian International Anton Kaisti Milosz Bochat
Maciej Dabrowski		21–13, 21–14 Winner
2013Tahiti International Ruud Bosch Laurent Constantin
Matthieu Lo Ying Ping		21–13, 21–10 Winner
2013Peru International Ruud Bosch Phillip Chew
Sattawat Pongnairat		21–18, 21–11 Winner
2013Swedish International Ruud Bosch Jacco Arends
Jelle Maas		21–16, 16–21, 13–21 Runner-up
2012Norwegian International Ruud Bosch Jacco Arends
Jelle Maas		21–18, 20–22, 21–17 Winner
2012Belgian International Adam Cwalina Marcus Ellis
Paul van Rietvelde		21–18, 21–17 Winner
2010Spanish International Ruud Bosch Peter Kasbauer
Oliver Roth		13–21, 14–21 Runner-up
2010Slovenian International Ruud Bosch Zvonimir Hoelbling
Zvonimir Đurkinjak		21–17, 21–15 Winner
2010Canadian International Ruud Bosch Phillip Chew
Halim Haryanto		21–13, 21–10 Winner
2009Belgian International Ruud Bosch Marcus Ellis
Peter Mills		30–28, 21–12 Winner
2009Dutch International Ruud Bosch Mads Conrad-Petersen
Mads Pieler Kolding		14–21, 20–22 Runner-up
2008Norwegian International Ruud Bosch Michael Fuchs
Ingo Kindervater		18–21, 21–19, 8–21 Runner-up
2008Portugal International Ruud Bosch Rupesh Kumar
Sanave Thomas		21–19, 22–20 Winner