Fontaine Chapman | |
Birth Name: | Fontaine Mica Chapman |
Country: | England |
Birth Date: | 1990 1, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Coventry, England |
Height: | 5ft 9in |
Handedness: | Right |
Coach: | Stuart Wardell |
Event: | Women's singles |
Highest Ranking: | 52 |
Date Of Highest Ranking: | 17 September 2015 |
Bwf Id: | C4017C5A-7B06-478F-B2B7-CAAE83925570 |
Fontaine Mica Chapman (born 2 January 1990) is an English badminton player. She started playing badminton at age 6, and joined the England national junior badminton team in 2003.[1] [2]
Her grandad used to coach her every day after school when she was a junior from age 9 and also helped her with summer training. She first represented England at the age of 12 years old at the under 13 Aros Junior Cup in Viby J, Denmark.[3] She was runner-up in the women's singles event of the English National Badminton Championships in 2013, reached the semi-finals in 2014 and again a losing finalist in 2015. In the 2016 edition she captured the English National women's singles title.[4] She played for the Birmingham Lions in the National Badminton League. She won a silver medal with the English National squad at the 2015 European Mixed Team Badminton Championships in Leuven, Belgium.
Women's singles
Year | Tournament | Opponent | Score | Result | |
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2013 | Auckland International | Tracey Hallam | 15-21, 16-21 | Runner-up | |
2014 | Hungarian International | Sandra-Maria Jensen | 11-2, 11-10, 11-9 | Winner | |
2015 | Hellas International | Linda Zetchiri | 21–9, 14–6 retired | Winner |
BWF International Challenge tournament
BWF International Series tournament
BWF Future Series tournament