Siti Fadia Silva Ramadhanti

Siti Fadia Silva Ramadhanti (born 16 November 2000) is an Indonesian badminton player affiliated with Djarum club. She won the gold medal in the mixed doubles at the 2017 Asian Junior Championships, and in the women's doubles at the 2021 SEA Games. She also won the silver medal in the 2023 World Championships.
Career
Born in Kampung Bantar Jati, Klapanunggal, Jonggol, Bogor Regency, Ramadhanti joined the Djarum badminton club in 2014, and in 2017 she was selected to join the Indonesian Junior team. In 2016, she won the Jakarta Open Junior International tournament in the U-17 girls' doubles event partnered with Agatha Imanuela. Ramadhanti made her debut at the BWF Superseries tournament with Imanuela in Indonesia Open but lost in the first round to the Danish pair. In October 2016, she competed at the Badminton Asia U-17 Junior Championships and won the girls' doubles gold with Imanuela and mixed doubles bronze with Rehan Naufal Kusharjanto. In 2017, she reach the girls' doubles semi-finals at the German Junior, Thailand Junior, mixed doubles semi-finals at the India Junior Grand Prix, girls' doubles final at the Jaya Raya Junior Grand Prix, India Junior Grand Prix, and also mixed doubles final at the Malaysia Junior tournaments.
In August 2017, Ramadhanti won the mixed doubles gold, mixed team silver, and girls' doubles bronze at the Asian Junior Championships. Ramadhanti was selected to join the Indonesia national junior team to compete at the 2017 World Junior Championships. At that tournament, she and Kusharjanto reached the mixed doubles final but lost to their compatriot Rinov Rivaldy and Pitha Haningtyas Mentari in the rubber game. In the senior event, she and Imanuela were the semi-finalists at the Indonesia International Series tournament. She won her first senior international tournament at the Indonesia International Challenge in the mixed doubles event partnered with Kusharjanto.
Ramadhanti opened the 2018 season as a quarter-finalists in the Thailand Masters with Imanuela. In July, she won bronze medals in the mixed team and girls' doubles at the Asian Junior Championships in Jakarta. At the Markham World Junior Championships she won a silver in the mixed doubles and two bronze medals in the team and girls' doubles.
In the first half of the 2019 season, the Ramadhanti and Imanuela partnership did not show satisfactory results, with their best result being a semifinal in the Orléans Masters. She was then paired with Ribka Sugiarto, and made their debut as quarter-finalists at the Russian Open in July. Not long after they were paired, Ramadhanti and Sugiarto won their first World Tour title at the Indonesia Masters Super 100. Some of their achievements were also being semi-finalists in the Chinese Taipei Open, where they beat second seed Lee So-hee and Shin Seung-chan; and also being a quarter-finalists in the Macau Open. She took part in the Philippines SEA Games, and won the silver medal for Indonesia in the women's team event. In the individual women's doubles, Ramadhanti and Sugiarto were stopped in the quarter-finals to second seed Chow Mei Kuan and Lee Meng Yean.
In September–October 2021, Ramadhanti alongside the Indonesian team competed at the 2021 Sudirman Cup in Vantaa, Finland. She played one match in the group stage against Russia. Indonesia advanced to the knockout stage but lost at the quarterfinals against Malaysia. In November 2021, Rahayu and Polii lost the finals of the 2021 Indonesia Open.
In May 2022, Ramadhanti began her partnership with the Tokyo Olympics gold medalist, Apriyani Rahayu. In their debut, the duo managed to win the women's doubles title at the Vietnam SEA Games. This new pair immediately showed satisfying results, by winning the Malaysia and Singapore Opens, and became finalists in the Indonesia Masters.
2023: World Champions silver and first ever Indonesian women's doubles to win the Hong Kong Open
In the first half of 2023 season, Ramadhanti, who competed on the BWF Tour together with Apriyani Rahayu, was unable to win a single title. Their best performance were reaching the semi-finals at the Malaysia Open in January, and at the Swiss Open in March. In both tournaments, they were unable to finish the match due to injury. In Malaysia, Ramadhanti suffered a right ankle injury; while in Switzerland, her partner, Rahayu suffered a right shoulder injury. By reaching the semi-finals in Malaysia, she was able to attain the world no. 5 ranking. In addition, Ramadhanti and Rahayu were the quarter-finalists in the Indonesia Masters, All England Open, Malaysia Masters, and at the Indonesia Open. The poor record were when they lost in the early rounds at the Asian Championships in Dubai, to Thai pair Benyapa Aimsaard and Nuntakarn Aimsaard, in the Thailand and Singapore Opens to Rin Iwanaga and Kie Nakanishi. Ramadhanti also join national team to compete at the Asia Mixed Team Championships and Sudirman Cup, but unfortunately the teams stopped in the quarter-finals to South Korea and China respectively. The Ramadhanti-Rahayu partnership then reached their career high as world number 4 in the BWF rangking which was released on 18 April 2023.
In August, Ramadhanti and Rahayu reached the final at the World Championships in Copenhagen. The duo won a silver medal after being defeated by 1st seed Chen Qingchen and Jia Yifan in straight games. The duo then won their first ever title of the year in the Hong Kong Open, and made a history as the first ever women's doubles from Indonesia to win the Hong Kong Open title since the inception in 1982. She made her debut at the Asian Games in 2022 Hangzhou, but unable to win any medals in both women's doubles and team events.
Achievements
World Championships
Women's doubles
SEA Games
Women's doubles
World Junior Championships
Girls' doubles
Mixed doubles
Asian Junior Championships
Girls' doubles
Mixed doubles
BWF World Tour (4 titles, 1 runner-up)
The BWF World Tour, which was announced on 19 March 2017 and implemented in 2018, is a series of elite badminton tournaments sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation (BWF). The BWF World Tour is 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.
Women's doubles
BWF International Challenge/Series (1 title, 1 runner-up)
Women's doubles
Mixed doubles
BWF International Challenge tournament
BWF International Series tournament
BWF Junior International (4 runners-up)
Women's doubles
Mixed doubles
BWF Junior International Grand Prix tournament
BWF Junior International Challenge tournament
BWF Junior International Series tournament
BWF Junior Future Series tournament
Performance timeline
National team
Junior level
Senior level
Individual competitions
Junior level
Girls' doubles
Mixed doubles
Senior level
Women's doubles
Mixed doubles
Record against selected opponents
Record against year-end Finals finalists, World Championships semi-finalists, and Olympic quarter-finalists. Accurate as of 10 October 2023.
Apriyani Rahayu
Notes
References
External links
2000 births
Living people
People from Bogor Regency
Badminton players from West Java
Indonesian female badminton players
Badminton players at the 2022 Asian Games
Asian Games competitors for Indonesia
Competitors at the 2019 SEA Games
Competitors at the 2021 SEA Games
SEA Games gold medalists for Indonesia
SEA Games silver medalists for Indonesia
SEA Games medalists in badminton
21st-century Indonesian women