Vita Marissa

Vita Marissa
Personal information
Birth name	Vita Marissa
Country	Indonesia
Born	(1981-01-04) January 4, 1981 Jakarta, DKI Jakarta
Height	1.71 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight	66 kg (146 lb; 10.4 st)
Handedness	Right
Mixed & Women's doubles
BWF profile

Vita Marissa (born Jakarta, DKI Jakarta; 4 January 1981) is a female badminton player from Indonesia.

Career

Marissa competed in badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics in mixed double's with partner Nova Widianto. They had a bye in the first round and defeated Robert Blair and Natalie Munt of Great Britain in the second. In the quarterfinals, Marissa and Widianto lost to Jens Eriksen and Mette Schjoldager of Denmark 15–12, 15–8. In September 2008 Marissa and her new partner Muhammad Rizal won mixed doubles at the Japan Super Series after beating Nova Widianto/Lilyana Natsir 14–21, 21–15, 21–19 in the all Indonesian final. Early 2009, she resigned from Indonesia National Team and no longer PBSI player. She continues her career as independent professional with her partner Flandy Limpele and her friend Nadya Melati, also an ex national team player in Women's Double.

Participation at Indonesian Team

• 4 times at Sudirman Cup (1999, 2003, 2005, 2007)

Achievements

Mixed Doubles with Praveen Jordan

Women's Doubles with Variella Aprilsasi Putri Lejarsari

Mixed Doubles with Tony Gunawan

Women's Doubles with Nadya Melati

Mixed Doubles with Hendra Aprida Gunawan

Women's Doubles with Lilyana Natsir

Mixed Doubles with Muhammad Rijal

Mixed Doubles with Flandy Limpele

Mixed Doubles with Nova Widianto

Women's Doubles with Deyana Lomban

Personal life

When she was young, she joined the Tangkas Jakarta badminton club. Her parents were Aris Harsono (father) and Yulianawati (mother). Her hobbies are billiards, swimming, and watching movies. Generally people call her Vita. After she has finished all competitions, no matter what the result were, she always makes a symbol of the Spirit of Jesus Christ. In 2008, as the oldest player in Uber Cup team, she was appointed as the team captain.

External links

• BWF Player Profile

v t e World rankings · Top ten badminton players as of January 30, 2014   Men's singles 1. Lee C W () 2. Chen L () 3. T Sugiarto () 4. J Ø Jørgensen () 5. K Tago () 6. B Ponsana () 7. Du PY () 8. Nguyễn T M () 9. Wang ZM () 10. Hu Y ()   Women's singles 1. Li XR () 2. Wang YH () 3. R Intanon () 4. Wang SX () 5. Sung J-h () 6. Bae Youn-joo () 7. S Nehwal (2) 8. Tai T-y (1) 9. J Schenk (1) 10. P V Shindu (1)   Men's doubles 1. M Ahsan / H Setiawan () 2. Ko S-h / Lee Y-d () 3. H Endo / K Hayakawa () 4. M Boe / C Mogensen () 5. Kim K-j / Kim S-r () 6. Liu XL / Qiu ZH () 7. Koo K K / Tan B H () 8. Hoon T H / Tan W K () 9. A Pratama / R A Saputra () 10. Lee S-m / Tsai C-h ()   Women's doubles 1. Wang XL / Yu Y () 2. K Rytter Juhl / C Pedersen () 3. Ma J / Tang JH () 4. M Matsutomo / A Takahashi () 5. Bao YX / Tang JH () 6. Jung K-e / Kim H-n () 7. P Z Bernadeth / R A Pradipta () 8. Jang Y-n / Kim S-y () 9. R Kakiiwa / M Maeda () 10. N K Maheswari / G Polii ()   Mixed doubles 1. Zhang N / Zhao YL () 2. T Ahmad / L Natsir () 3. Xu C / Ma J () 4. J Fischer Nielsen / C Pedersen () 5. C Adcock / G Adcock () 6. Chan P S / Goh L Y () 7. M Kido / P Z Bernadeth () 8. S Prapakamol / S Thungthonkam () 9. Shin B-c / Jang Y-n () 10. P Jordan / V Marissa ()

v t e Top Ten Indonesian Badminton Players - Women's doubles as of 30 January 2014 1. P Bernadeth / R Pradipta (7 ) 2. N Maheswari / G Polii (10 ) 3. V Aprilsasi / V Marissa (14 ) 4. G Imawan / T Nuraidah (25 ) 5. A Awanda / D Haris (48 1) 6. K Hanadia / D Permatasari (55 1) 7. M Oktaviani / R Putri Sari (57 1) 8. M Giovani / M Oklamona (63 1) 9. S Andini / J Gozali (70 1) 10. K Dewi / M Jauhari (89 )

v t e Top Ten Indonesian Badminton Players - Mixed doubles as of 30 January 2014 1. T Ahmad / L Natsir (2 ) 2. M Kido / P Bernadeth (7 ) 3. P Jordan / V Marissa (10 ) 4. M Rijal / D Susanto (13 ) 5. R Widianto / R Dili (15 ) 6. I Fadhilah / W Anggraini (24 ) 7. L Nugroho / A Saufika (32 1) 8. F Kurniawan / S Irawati (38 ) 9. E Subaktiar / G Widjaja (39 ) 10. M Gideon / R Pradipta (52 2)