Dechapol Puavaranukroh

Dechapol Puavaranukroh
Puavaranukroh at the 2022 German Open
Personal information
Nickname(s)Bass
CountryThailand
Born (1997-05-20) 20 May 1997
Chonburi, Thailand
Height1.69 m (5 ft 6+12 in)
HandednessRight
Men's and mixed doubles
Highest ranking12 (MD with Kittinupong Kedren, 8 July 2025)
1 (XD with Sapsiree Taerattanachai, 7 December 2021)[1]
Current ranking12 (MD with Kittinupong Kedren)
5 (XD with Supissara Paewsampran) (8 July 2025)
Medal record
Men's badminton
Representing  Thailand
World Championships
2021 Huelva Mixed doubles
2019 Basel Mixed doubles
Sudirman Cup
2017 Gold Coast Mixed team
2019 Nanning Mixed team
Asian Championships
2017 Wuhan Mixed doubles
2019 Wuhan Mixed doubles
Asia Mixed Team Championships
2017 Ho Chi Minh Mixed team
SEA Games
2017 Kuala Lumpur Men's doubles
2017 Kuala Lumpur Mixed doubles
2017 Kuala Lumpur Men's team
World Junior Championships
2014 Alor Setar Boys' doubles
2014 Alor Setar Mixed team
Asian Youth Games
2013 Nanjing Mixed doubles
BWF profile

Dechapol Puavaranukroh (Thai: เดชาพล พัววรานุเคราะห์; born 20 May 1997) is a Thai badminton player.[2] He was a gold medalist at the 2014 BWF World Junior Championships in the boys' doubles event with his partner Kittinupong Kedren.[3] Dechapol claimed doubles titles at the 2017 SEA Games by winning the gold medal in the men's doubles with Kedren and in the mixed doubles with Sapsiree Taerattanachai.[4] Together with Sapsiree, he won the silver and gold medals at the BWF World Championships in 2019[5] and 2021 respectively, became the first Thai pair who won the world title.[6][7] The duo made a clean sweep of all three 2020 Asian leg titles in Thailand[8][9] and all 2021 Bali leg titles, thus climbing to world number 1 in the BWF ranking.[10] Dechapol and Sapsiree made history as the first ever Thai players to win a title in the year-end Finals tournaments[11] and rank first in the world ranking.[1]

Career

Dechapol and his partner, Sapsiree, reached their first ever final at a Superseries event in 2017 Singapore Open.[12] Dechapol and his partner, Sapsiree, competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics, but they were eliminated in the quarter-finals.[13]

Achievements

BWF World Championships

Mixed doubles

Year Venue Partner Opponent Score Result Ref
2019 St. Jakobshalle,
Basel, Switzerland
Sapsiree Taerattanachai Zheng Siwei
Huang Yaqiong
8–21, 12–21 Silver [5]
2021 Palacio de los Deportes Carolina Marín,
Huelva, Spain
Sapsiree Taerattanachai Yuta Watanabe
Arisa Higashino
21–13, 21–14 Gold [14]

Asian Championships

Mixed doubles

Year Venue Partner Opponent Score Result
2017 Wuhan Sports Center Gymnasium,
Wuhan, China
Sapsiree Taerattanachai Lu Kai
Huang Yaqiong
18–21, 11–21 Silver
2019 Wuhan Sports Center Gymnasium,
Wuhan, China
Sapsiree Taerattanachai Wang Yilyu
Huang Dongping
21–23, 10–21 Bronze

SEA Games

Men's doubles

Year Venue Partner Opponent Score Result
2017 Axiata Arena,
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Kittinupong Kedren Ong Yew Sin
Teo Ee Yi
21–19, 20–22, 21–17 Gold

Mixed doubles

Year Venue Partner Opponent Score Result
2017 Axiata Arena,
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Sapsiree Taerattanachai Goh Soon Huat
Shevon Jemie Lai
21–15, 22–20 Gold

BWF World Junior Championships

Boys' doubles

Year Venue Partner Opponent Score Result
2014 Stadium Sultan Abdul Halim,
Alor Setar, Malaysia
Kittinupong Kedren Masahide Nakata
Katsuki Tamate
21–16, 21–18 Gold

Asian Youth Games

Mixed doubles

Year Venue Partner Opponent Score Result
2013 Sport Institute Gymnasium,
Nanjing, China
Puttita Supajirakul Minoru Koga
Akane Yamaguchi
19–21, 21–9, 17–21 Silver

BWF World Tour (22 titles, 13 runners-up)

The BWF World Tour, which was announced on 19 March 2017 and implemented in 2018,[15] 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, and the BWF Tour Super 100.[16]

Men's doubles

Year Tournament Level Partner Opponent Score Result
2025 Swiss Open Super 300 Kittinupong Kedren Muhammad Shohibul Fikri
Daniel Marthin
21–15, 18–21, 21–14 Winner

Mixed doubles

Year Tournament Level Partner Opponent Score Result
2018 Thailand Masters Super 300 Puttita Supajirakul Chan Peng Soon
Goh Liu Ying
15–21, 21–14, 16–21 Runner-up
2018 Denmark Open Super 750 Sapsiree Taerattanachai Zheng Siwei
Huang Yaqiong
16–21, 13–21 Runner-up
2019 Thailand Masters Super 300 Sapsiree Taerattanachai Chan Peng Soon
Goh Liu Ying
16–21, 15–21 Runner-up
2019 Malaysia Masters Super 500 Sapsiree Taerattanachai Yuta Watanabe
Arisa Higashino
18–21, 18–21 Runner-up
2019 Singapore Open Super 500 Sapsiree Taerattanachai Tan Kian Meng
Lai Pei Jing
21–14, 21–6 Winner
2019 Korea Open Super 500 Sapsiree Taerattanachai Zheng Siwei
Huang Yaqiong
21–14, 21–13 Winner
2019 Macau Open Super 300 Sapsiree Taerattanachai Wang Chi-lin
Cheng Chi-ya
21–11, 21–8 Winner
2020 All England Open Super 1000 Sapsiree Taerattanachai Praveen Jordan
Melati Daeva Oktavianti
15–21, 21–17, 8–21 Runner-up
2020 (I) Thailand Open Super 1000 Sapsiree Taerattanachai Praveen Jordan
Melati Daeva Oktavianti
21–3, 20–22, 21–18 Winner
2020 (II) Thailand Open Super 1000 Sapsiree Taerattanachai Seo Seung-jae
Chae Yoo-jung
21–16, 22–20 Winner
2020 BWF World Tour Finals World Tour Finals Sapsiree Taerattanachai Seo Seung-jae
Chae Yoo-jung
21–18, 8–21, 21–8 Winner
2021 Denmark Open Super 1000 Sapsiree Taerattanachai Yuta Watanabe
Arisa Higashino
18–21, 9–21 Runner-up
2021 Hylo Open Super 500 Sapsiree Taerattanachai Praveen Jordan
Melati Daeva Oktavianti
22–20, 21–14 Winner
2021 Indonesia Masters Super 750 Sapsiree Taerattanachai Tang Chun Man
Tse Ying Suet
21–11, 21–12 Winner
2021 Indonesia Open Super 1000 Sapsiree Taerattanachai Yuta Watanabe
Arisa Higashino
21–12, 21–13 Winner
2021 BWF World Tour Finals World Tour Finals Sapsiree Taerattanachai Yuta Watanabe
Arisa Higashino
21–19, 21–11 Winner
2022 German Open Super 300 Sapsiree Taerattanachai Ou Xuanyi
Huang Yaqiong
21–11, 21–9 Winner
2022 Thailand Open Super 500 Sapsiree Taerattanachai Zheng Siwei
Huang Yaqiong
12–21, 21–18, 14–21 Runner-up
2022 Malaysia Open Super 750 Sapsiree Taerattanachai Zheng Siwei
Huang Yaqiong
13–21, 18–21 Runner-up
2022 Singapore Open Super 500 Sapsiree Taerattanachai Wang Yilyu
Huang Dongping
21–12, 21–17 Winner
2022 Japan Open Super 750 Sapsiree Taerattanachai Yuta Watanabe
Arisa Higashino
16–21, 23–21, 21–18 Winner
2022 BWF World Tour Finals World Tour Finals Sapsiree Taerattanachai Zheng Siwei
Huang Yaqiong
19–21, 21–18, 13–21 Runner-up
2023 Malaysia Masters Super 500 Sapsiree Taerattanachai Feng Yanzhe
Huang Dongping
16–21, 21–13, 21–18 Winner
2023 Thailand Open Super 500 Sapsiree Taerattanachai Kim Won-ho
Jeong Na-eun
21–11, 19–21, 20–22 Runner-up
2023 Japan Open Super 750 Sapsiree Taerattanachai Yuta Watanabe
Arisa Higashino
21–17, 16–21, 15–21 Runner-up
2024 India Open Super 750 Sapsiree Taerattanachai Jiang Zhenbang
Wei Yaxin
21–16, 21–16 Winner
2024 Thailand Masters Super 300 Sapsiree Taerattanachai Chen Tang Jie
Toh Ee Wei
21–12, 21–18 Winner
2024 Thailand Open Super 500 Sapsiree Taerattanachai Guo Xinwa
Chen Fanghui
21–12, 12–21, 18–21 Runner-up
2024 Japan Masters Super 500 Supissara Paewsampran Thom Gicquel
Delphine Delrue
21–16, 10–21, 21–17 Winner
2024 Syed Modi International Super 300 Supissara Paewsampran Dhruv Kapila
Tanisha Crasto
18–21, 21–14, 21–8 Winner
2025 Malaysia Open Super 1000 Supissara Paewsampran Feng Yanzhe
Huang Dongping
21–13, 19–21, 21–18 Winner
2025 Thailand Masters Super 300 Supissara Paewsampran Dejan Ferdinansyah
Siti Fadia Silva Ramadhanti
19–21, 21–17, 21–13 Winner
2025 Singapore Open Super 750 Supissara Paewsampran Tang Chun Man
Tse Ying Suet
21–16, 21–9 Winner
2025 Indonesia Open Super 1000 Supissara Paewsampran Thom Gicquel
Delphine Delrue
16–21, 18–21 Runner-up

BWF Superseries (1 runner-up)

The BWF Superseries, which was launched on 14 December 2006 and implemented in 2007,[17] was a series of elite badminton tournaments, sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation (BWF). BWF Superseries levels were Superseries and Superseries Premier. A season of Superseries consisted of twelve tournaments around the world that had been introduced since 2011.[18] Successful players were invited to the Superseries Finals, which were held at the end of each year.

Mixed doubles

Year Tournament Partner Opponent Score Result
2017 Singapore Open Sapsiree Taerattanachai Lu Kai
Huang Yaqiong
21–19, 16–21, 11–21 Runner-up
  BWF Superseries Finals tournament
  BWF Superseries Premier tournament
  BWF Superseries tournament

BWF Grand Prix (1 title, 3 runners-up)

The BWF Grand Prix had two levels, the Grand Prix and Grand Prix Gold. It was a series of badminton tournaments sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation (BWF) and played between 2007 and 2017.

Mixed doubles

Year Tournament Partner Opponent Score Result
2016 Syed Modi International Sapsiree Taerattanachai Praveen Jordan
Debby Susanto
25–23, 9–21, 16–21 Runner-up
2016 Korea Masters Sapsiree Taerattanachai Ko Sung-hyun
Kim Ha-na
19–21, 16–21 Runner-up
2017 Thailand Masters Sapsiree Taerattanachai Zhang Nan
Li Yinhui
11–21, 22–20, 13–21 Runner-up
2017 Swiss Open Sapsiree Taerattanachai Praveen Jordan
Debby Susanto
21–18, 21–15 Winner
  BWF Grand Prix Gold tournament
  BWF Grand Prix tournament

BWF International Challenge/Series (2 runners-up)

Men's doubles

Year Tournament Partner Opponent Score Result
2014 Smiling Fish International Kittinupong Kedren Watchara Buranakuea
Trawut Potieng
21–12, 18–21, 14–21 Runner-up
2016 Polish Open Kittinupong Kedren Hardianto
Kenas Adi Haryanto
5–21, 21–18, 15–21 Runner-up
  BWF International Challenge tournament
  BWF International Series tournament

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