1. Career

2. Achievements
    BWF World Championships   Commonwealth Games   European Championships  BWF World Junior Championships  European Junior Championships   BWF World Tour   BWF Superseries  BWF Grand Prix  BWF International Challenge/Series 

3. Record against selected opponents

4. References

5. External links

Chris Adcock (born 27 April 1989) is an English internationally elite badminton player.^[2] Adcock is currently sponsored by Yonex and YC Sports and plays for the University of Nottingham-based NBL team.

Career

At the 2008 Thomas Cup Chris Adcock made his debut at a major senior international tournament where he played one match in the group stage. He would continue to represent England at the 2009 Sudirman Cup where the team played sixth. Adcock's world championship debut came at the 2010 Paris Worlds where he entered mixed doubles with Gabrielle White, but lost in the first round. He later switched Mixed Doubles partners to compete with Scottish player Imogen Bankier. They had a Cinderella run at the 2011 London Worlds where they defeated three seeded pairs before losing in the final. Chris Adcock also competes in Men's Doubles, currently pairing with fellow Englishmen Andrew Ellis. Although they qualified for the Olympics, they had a disappointing performance and lost in the first round.^[3]

In October 2012, the pair announced their decision to split, with Bankier stating her intention to return to Badminton Scotland and form a Scottish partnership.^[4] Subsequently, Adcock reignited his mixed doubles partnership with Gabrielle White, whom he later married.^[5] They later won the BWF Super Series Masters Finals in 2015, and become the first British players to do so.^[6]

Adcock competed in the 2014 Commonwealth Games, winning gold in the mixed doubles alongside his wife.^[7] In 2015, he became the champion at the Dubai World Superseries Finals in mixed doubles event.^[8] In 2016, he competed at the Summer Olympics in the mixed doubles event, but did not advance to the knocked out stage.^[9]

In October 2016, Adcock alongside his wife, were the semifinalst at the BWF Superseries Premier tournament at the Denmark Open, but they lost to home duo Joachim Fischer Nielsen and Christinna Pedersen in the straight games.^[10] The Adcocks then reaching the final at the Grand Prix Gold tournament at the 2016 Bitburger Open, defeated by the Chinese pair Zheng Siwei and Chen Qingchen with the score 16–21, 21–23. At the end of 2016 BWF Season, the Adcocks were qualified to compete at the Dubai World Superseries Finals.^[11] They advanced to the final round after placed second in the group stage, won a semifinal match against Praveen Jordan and Debby Susanto of Indonesia in three games, but they lost again to Chinese paired Zheng and Cheng.^[12][13]

In 2017, the Adcocks won the gold medal at the European Championships in Denmark defeating Joachim Fischer Nielsen and Christinna Pedersen in the final.^[14] They also clinched the bronze medal at the BWF World Championships in Glasgow.^[15] In 2018, he competed at the Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, and defend the mixed doubles gold with his wife, also claimed the mixed team bronze.^[16][17]

Achievements

BWF World Championships

Commonwealth Games

European Championships

BWF World Junior Championships

European Junior Championships

BWF World Tour

The BWF World Tour, announced on 19 March 2017 and implemented in 2018,^[18] is a series of elite badminton tournaments, sanctioned by Badminton World Federation (BWF). The BWF World Tour are divided into six levels, namely World Tour Finals, Super 1000, Super 750, Super 500, Super 300 (part of the HSBC World Tour), and the BWF Tour Super 100.^[19]

BWF Superseries

The BWF Superseries, launched on 14 December 2006 and implemented in 2007,^[20] is a series of elite badminton tournaments, sanctioned by Badminton World Federation (BWF). BWF Superseries has two level such as Superseries and Superseries Premier. A season of Superseries features twelve tournaments around the world, which introduced since 2011,^[21] with successful players invited to the Superseries Finals held at the year end.

{{Color box|#B0C4DE|border=darkgray}} BWF Superseries Finals tournament

{{Color box|#DAA520|border=darkgray}} BWF Superseries Premier tournament

{{Color box|#FFFFCC|border=darkgray}} BWF Superseries tournament

BWF Grand Prix

The BWF Grand Prix has two levels: Grand Prix and Grand Prix Gold. It is a series of badminton tournaments, sanctioned by Badminton World Federation (BWF) since 2007.

{{Color box|#FFFF67|border=darkgray}} BWF Grand Prix Gold tournament

{{Color box|#D4F1C5|border=darkgray}} BWF Grand Prix tournament

BWF International Challenge/Series

{{Color box|#D8CEF6|border=darkgray}} BWF International Challenge tournament

{{Color box|#D5D5D5|border=darkgray}} BWF International Series tournament

Record against selected opponents

Mixed Doubles results with Imogen Bankier against Super Series finalists, Worlds Semi-finalists, and Olympic quarterfinalists.^[22]

• {{flagicon|CHN}} Tao Jiaming & Tian Qing 1–0
• {{flagicon|CHN}} Xu Chen & Ma Jin 0–3
• {{flagicon|CHN}} Zhang Nan & Zhao Yunlei 2–5
• {{flagicon|TPE}} Chen Hung-ling & Cheng Wen-hsing 1–0
• {{flagicon|DEN}} Thomas Laybourn & Kamilla Rytter Juhl 0–1
• {{flagicon|GER}} Michael Fuchs & Birgit Michels 0–1
• {{flagicon|INA}} Tantowi Ahmad & Lilyana Natsir 1–3
• {{flagicon|JPN}} Shintaro Ikeda & Reiko Shiota 2–0
• {{flagicon|POL}} Robert Mateusiak & Nadiezda Zieba 0–1
• {{flagicon|RUS}} Aleksandr Nikolaenko & Valeria Sorokina 0–1
• {{flagicon|SCO}}/{{flagicon|ENG}} Robert Blair & Gabrielle White 1–1
• {{flagicon|THA}} Songphon Anugritayawon & Kunchala Voravichitchaikul 1–1
• {{flagicon|THA}} Sudket Prapakamol & Saralee Thoungthongkam 0–3

References

External links

• {{BWF|42DF1168-BE4D-4D31-9F59-ED5B801DCD83}}
• {{SR/Olympics profile|ad/chris-adcock-1}}
• {{IOC profile|chris-adcock}}

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