Thilini Hendahewa

Thilini Pramodika Hendahewa (born 18 September 1996) is a Sri Lankan badminton player.^[1] She competed at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics in Nanjing, China,^[2] also at the 2014 and 2018 Commonwealth Games.^[3] Hendahewa was the women' singles champion at the 2014 Sri Lanka national championships.^[4] She won her first senior international title at the 2017 Lagos International tournament in the women's singles and doubles event.^[5] Together with Kavidi Sirimannage, they claimed the gold medal in the 2019 South Asian Games.^[6] She became one of the first two Sri Lankans to win a BWF World Tour tournament, when she won the mixed doubles event alongside Sachin Dias at the 2022 Odisha Open.

Thilini Hendahewa
Personal information
Country	Sri Lanka
Born	(1996-09-18) 18 September 1996 (age 28) Colombo, Sri Lanka
Height	1.69 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight	56 kg (123 lb)
Women's singles & doubles
Highest ranking	233 (WS 13 August 2019) 72 (WD 13 August 2019) 113 (XD 1 February 2022)
Current ranking	515 (WS) 142 (WD) 137 (XD) (5 July 2022)
Medal record Women's badminton Representing  Sri Lanka South Asian Games 2019 Kathmandu–Pokhara Women's doubles 2016 Guwahati–Shillong Women's team 2019 Kathmandu–Pokhara Mixed doubles 2019 Kathmandu–Pokhara Women's team
BWF profile

Hendahewa educated applied sciences at University of Sri Jayewardenepura in Nugegoda.^[3]

Achievements

South Asian Games

Women's doubles

Year	Venue	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2019	Badminton Covered Hall, Pokhara, Nepal	Kavidi Sirimannage	Achini Ratnasiri Upuli Weerasinghe	21–10, 21–7	Gold

Mixed doubles

Year	Venue	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2019	Badminton Covered Hall, Pokhara, Nepal	Sachin Dias	Dhruv Kapila Meghana Jakkampudi	16–21, 14–21	Silver

BWF World Tour (1 title)

The BWF World Tour, which was announced on 19 March 2017 and implemented in 2018,^[7] is a series of elite badminton tournaments sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation (BWF). The BWF World Tours are divided into levels of World Tour Finals, Super 1000, Super 750, Super 500, Super 300 (part of the HSBC World Tour), and the BWF Tour Super 100.^[8]

Mixed doubles

Year	Tournament	Level	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2022	Odisha Open	Super 100	Sachin Dias	Arjun M. R. Treesa Jolly	21–16, 22–20	Winner

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

Women's singles

Year	Tournament	Opponent	Score	Result
2017	Lagos International	Mugdha Agrey	21–13, 21–19	Winner

Women's doubles

Year	Tournament	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2017	Lagos International	Kavidi Sirimannage	Zainab Momoh Ramatu Yakubu	21–8, 21–5	Winner
2018	Nepal International	Kavidi Sirimannage	Aparna Balan Sruthi K.P	16–21, 13–21	Runner-up
2019	Maldives Future Series	Kavidi Sirimannage	Kuo Yu-wen Lin Wan-ching	19–21, 18–21	Runner-up

  BWF International Challenge tournament

  BWF International Series tournament

  BWF Future Series tournament

References

1. "Players: Thilini Pramodika Hendahewa". Badminton World Federation. Retrieved 6 August 2017.
2. "Nine athletes to Youth Olympics". The Sunday Times. Retrieved 6 August 2017.
3. "Participants: Thilini Pramodika Hendahewa". Gold Coast 2018. Retrieved 13 April 2018.
4. "Niluka and Thilini win Badminton Nationals". The Island. Retrieved 6 August 2017.
5. "Yadav, Hindahewa win Lagos International Badminton Classics". The Guardian. Retrieved 6 August 2017.
6. "Sri Lanka shuttlers bag two each of gold and silver". Daily FT. 7 December 2019. Archived from the original on 10 December 2019. Retrieved 10 December 2019.
7. Alleyne, Gayle (19 March 2017). "BWF Launches New Events Structure". Badminton World Federation. Archived from the original on 1 December 2017. Retrieved 29 November 2017.
8. Sukumar, Dev (10 January 2018). "Action-Packed Season Ahead!". Badminton World Federation. Archived from the original on 13 January 2018. Retrieved 15 January 2018.

External links

• Thilini Hendahewa at BWFBadminton.com
• Thilini Hendahewa at BWF.TournamentSoftware.com (alternate link)
• Thilini Hendahewa at Olympedia
• Thilini Hendahewa at Olympics.com