Thet Htar Thuzar

Thet Htar Thuzar
Thet Htar Thuzar
Personal information
Birth name	Thet Htar Thuzar
Country	Myanmar
Born	15 March 1999 (age 25); Yangon, Myanmar
Height	1.58 m (5 ft 2 in)
Weight	58 kg (128 lb)
Handedness	Right
Women's singles
Highest ranking	40 (24 October 2023)
Current ranking	43 (16 July 2024)
Medal record
Women's badminton
Representing Myanmar
SEA Games
	BWF profile

Thet Htar Thuzar (Burmese: သက်ထားသူဇာ; born 15 March 1999) is a Burmese badminton player.^[1] She participated at the 2013 SEA Games in her home country Myanmar. She won her first International title at the Egypt International 2018.^[2] As of 2019 she had reached eight finals, most of them in the African Badminton Circuit, winning six events (in Uganda, Kenya, Mauritius, Benin, Ivory Coast and again in Egypt).

Early life

Thet Htar was born in 1999 in Yangon; to parents who are both badminton players which inspired her to make a career in badminton. She first picked up a badminton racket when she was seven years old. Thet Htar was raised briefly in Thailand since her father was serving as a coach there. She juggled sports and studies in Thailand and won third prize in her first competition at the age of seven and later she returned to Myanmar with her family in 2010. Shortly after her return to Myanmar, she was selected to represent the Yangon Region in the Regions and States Tournament and won the best player award. Then, she started competing in open tournaments and was enlisted in the National team. She was only 11 when she made her international debut at the 2011 SEA Games.^[3] Prior to the Tokyo Olympics she took part in the Asia Olympic Project, which was a year-end regional training programme being held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. She also participated for Myanmar at the 2013, 2017, 2019, and at the 2023 Games.

Career

Thet Htar Thuzar reached three semi-finals in 2019. At the India International Challenge losing a close contested match against Thai player Benyapa Aimsaard 20–22, 17–21, and the semi-finals at the Maldives International, where she lost after one hour and two minutes against Vũ Thị Trang of Vietnam 14–21, 21–15, 16–21. And also losing the semi-final at her home event, the Myanmar International to Indonesian Maharani Sekar Batari 15–21, 17–21. She participated at the 2019 Badminton Asia Championships in Wuhan, China. She lost the quarter-finals of the 2019 Bulgarian Open to eventual winner Neslihan Yiğit of Turkey in a 57 minutes marathon match 12–21, 21–19, 18–21.

Olympian

Thet Htar Thuzar qualified and participated at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics in July 2021. She lost both her Group M women's singles matches against 14th seed Gregoria Mariska Tunjung of Indonesia (11–21, 8–21) and Lianne Tan of Belgium (6–21, 8–21).

World Championship participation

After the Olympics she played her last match during the round of 128 of the 2021 BWF World Championships losing 15–21, 16–21 to Chinese Taipei player Pai Yu-po.

Achievements

BWF International Challenge/Series (8 titles, 3 runners-up)

Women's singles

Year	Tournament	Opponent	Score	Result
2018	Egypt International	Alesia Zaitsava	Walkover	Winner
2018	Nepal International	Chananchida Jucharoen	18–21, 21–10, 17–21	Runner-up
2019	Uganda International	Domou Amro	21–14, 21–12	Winner
2019	Kenya International	Domou Amro	21–10, 21–10	Winner
2019	Mauritius International	Airi Mikkelä	21–10, 21–19	Winner
2019	Benin International	Daniela Macías	17–21, 21–18, 21–14	Winner
2019	Côte d'Ivoire International	Sri Krishna Priya Kudaravalli	21–17, 21–13	Winner
2019	Hellas Open	Kisona Selvaduray	14–21, 9–21	Runner-up
2019	Maldives Future Series	Malvika Bansod	13–21, 11–21	Runner-up
2019	Egypt International	Jordan Hart	21–6, 12–1 Retired	Winner
2020	Uganda International	Aakarshi Kashyap	21–14, 16–21, 21–18	Winner