Victoria Na

Victoria "Vicky" Na (born 23 March 1991) is an Australian badminton player. She is from Indonesian and Thai descent. She has won an Australian age national championship and participated in several international badminton competitions. Na made her Australian national badminton team debut in 2011 and has been named to the Australian 2012 Summer Olympics badminton team. She is currently ranked number 1 nationally (female).

Victoria Na
Personal information
Country Australia
Born (1991-03-23) 23 March 1991
Carlton, Victoria, Australia
Height1.67 m (5 ft 6 in)
Weight60 kg (132 lb)
HandednessRight
Women's singles & mixed doubles
Highest ranking71 (WS) 29 November 2012
55 (XD) 31 January 2013
Medal record
Badminton
Representing  Australia
Oceania Championships
2012 BallaratWomen's singles
2012 BallaratMixed doubles
BWF profile

Personal

Nicknamed Vicky, Na was born on 23 March 1991 in Carlton, Victoria and as of 2012 lives in Glen Waverley, Victoria.[1][2] She is 1.67 m (5 ft 6 in) tall and weighs 60 kilograms (130 lb).[1] She attended Mount View Primary School, and then went on to high school at Wesley College (Victoria). She then completed her final high school years at Haileybury Girls College.[1][2] As of 2012 she is working on a Bachelor of Arts in Digital Arts at RMIT, starting her degree in 2009.[1]

Career

Na plays singles women's badminton for the Badminton Academy of Victoria, located in Kilsyth, Victoria.[1] She started competing in the sport in 2000 as a nine-year-old, and has always been coached by her father Kobeng Na.[1]

In 2005, Na won the Australian junior national championships in the under-15 singles class.[1] In 2007, she won the under-17 singles class at the Australasian Junior Championships.[1] In 2009, she won the under-19 singles class at the Australasian Junior Championships.[1] She finished first at the 2011 Ethiopia International 2011 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in the singles competition.[1] She finished second at the 2012 Thomas Cup Preliminaries — Oceania in Ballarat, Australia in the team event.[1] She finished first at the 2012 Uber Cup Preliminaries — Oceania in Ballarat, Australia in the team event.[1] At the 2012 Yonex Australian Open Grand Prix Gold in Sydney, Australia in the singles event, she finished seventeenth.[1] At the 2012 Air Tahiti Nui International Challenge in Punaauia, French Polynesia she finished ninth in the singles event.[1] At the 2012 Thomas & Uber Cup in Wuhan China, she finished 9th in the team competition.[1] In June 2012, she was scheduled to participate in a badminton international event in Auckland, New Zealand ahead of the Olympics where she will have a bye in the first round.[2][3][4] In round two, she will meet Ching Chieh Tai from Chinese Taipei.[2]

National team

Na made her national team debut in 2011.[1] At the 2012 Oceania Championships in Ballarat, Australia, she finished third in the singles event and first in the team event.[1] In June 2012, she was named to Australia's badminton team for the 2012 Summer Olympics.[5][6][7] The Games was her first Olympic appearance.[1]

Achievements

Oceania Championships

Women's Singles

Year Venue Opponent Score Result
2012 Ken Kay Badminton Stadium,
Ballarat, Australia		 Verdet Kessler 17-21, 22-24 Bronze

Mixed Doubles

Year Venue Partner Opponent Score Result
2012 Ken Kay Badminton Stadium,
Ballarat, Australia		 Luke Chong Raymond Tam
Eugenia Tanaka		 21-23, 18-21 Bronze

BWF International Challenge/Series

Women's Singles

Year Tournament Opponent Score Result
2011 Ethiopia International Stacey Doubell 21-13, 15-21, 21-14 Winner
2011 Zimbabwe International Claudia Mayer 21-18, 17-21, 19-21 Runner-up
2011 Namibia International Claudia Mayer 25-27, 21-17, 21-17 Winner
2011 Counties Manukau International Karyn Velez 12-21, 15-21 Runner-up
2011 Altona International Karyn Velez 22-24, 17-21 Runner-up

Mixed Doubles

Year Tournament Partner Opponent Score Result
2012 Auckland International Luke Chong Tom Armstrong
Tracey Hallam		 11-21, 7-21 Runner-up
2011 Zimbabwe International Luke Chong Lawrence Mdege
Kudzai Panganai		 21-3, 21-6 Winner
2011 Namibia International Luke Chong Abdelrahman Kashkal
Hadia Hosny		 14-21, 21-16, 20-22 Runner-up
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References
  1. "London 2012 - Victoria Na". Australian Olympic Committee. 23 March 1991. Retrieved 19 June 2012.
  2. "SOTX Auckland International 2012 - General". tournamentsoftware.com. Retrieved 19 June 2012.
  3. "Badminton: Internationals return to Auckland - Sport - NZ Herald News". Nzherald.co.nz. 17 March 2011. Retrieved 19 June 2012.
  4. "Hallam features in Auckland International - Oceania Badminton Confederation". SportingPulse. Retrieved 19 June 2012.
  5. "London Olympics: Locals heading to Games — Local News — Sport — Other". Monash Weekly. Retrieved 19 June 2012.
  6. "Australian Olympic badminton team named". Nine MSN. Archived from the original on 26 December 2014. Retrieved 19 June 2012.
  7. "Aussies name badminton line-up". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 14 June 2012. Retrieved 19 June 2012.
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