Taufik Hidayat

(1981-)

Indonesian badminton player

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Taufik Hidayat (born 10 August 1981) is a retired Indonesian badminton player. He was a former world number one, World Championships, Olympic champions, 2 times Asian Games, and three times Asian Championships in the men's singles. He won a tying-record six times Indonesia Open (1999, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2006). Having started to win medals and gained success at a young age where he was still 17 years old to became the world No.1 ranking. Taufik’s career started achieving great heights with his style of used both forehand and backhand power, combined with his tenacity at the net and scope for deceptive shots, making him able to compete with other senior and top men's single player at that time as one of the most difficult players to face on the open circuit, and by many, considered to be one of the best men's single players of all time in badminton history.