Muhammad Rijal

Personal information

Birth name

Muhammad Rijal

Country

Indonesia

Born

May 25, 1986
Indonesia

Height

1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)

Weight

68 kg (150 lb)

Handedness

Right

Coach

Richard Mainaky

Mixed Doubles

Medal record

Southeast Asian Games
Competitor for Indonesia
	2013 Myanmar	Mixed Doubles

Muhammad Rijal (born Tangerang; 25 May 1986) is an Indonesian badminton player.

Career

Rijal captured his first international badminton title in mixed doubles with partner Vita Marissa at the 2008 Japan Super Series, beating fellow Indonesians Nova Widianto/Lilyana Natsir in the final round.

Personal life

When he was young, he joined the Djarum Kudus badminton club. His parents names are Ibrahim Martin (father) and Imas Riyati (mother). His hobby is football. Generally people called him Rizal. His name usually spelled as Rijal instead of Rizal. His family is Sundanese, however because his first club was Djarum, he represented East Java in Indonesia National Sport Game.

Participation at Indonesian Team

1 time at Sudirman Cup (2007)

Achievements

Mixed Doubles with Vita Marissa

Year	Tournament	Venue	Round
2014
	2014 Indonesia Masters Grand Prix Gold	Indonesia	Runner-Up
	2014 Vietnam Open Grand Prix	Vietnam	Winner
	2014 Indonesia International Challenges	Indonesia	Runner-up
	2014 U.S. Open Grand Prix Gold	USA	Winner
	Osaka International Challenge	Japan	Winner
2008
2008	Yonex Japan Open Super Series	Japan	Winner

Mixed Doubles with Debby Susanto

Year	Tournament	Venue	Round
2013
2013	2013 Dutch Open Grand Prix	Netherlands	Runner-up
2012
	2012 Macau Open Grand Prix Gold	Macau	Runner-up
	2012 Chinese Taipei Open Grand Prix Gold	Chinese Taipei	Winner
	2012 Indonesia Open Grand Prix Gold	Indonesia	Runner-up
2011
2011	2011 India Open Grand Prix Gold	India	Runner-up

Mixed Doubles with Lilyana Natsir

Year	Tournament	Venue	Round
2012
2012	Yonex Japan Open Super Series	Japan	Runner-up

Mixed Doubles with Greysia Polii

Year	Tournament	Venue	Round
2007
2007	Swiss Open	Swiss	Runner-up

References

tournamentsoftware.com

BWF World Superseries Champions in Mixed Doubles: Indonesian Badminton Players as of October 18, 2015

1. Tontowi Ahmad / Liliyana Natsir (11) 2. Nova Widianto / Liliyana Natsir (5) 3. Flandy Limpele / Vita Marissa (2) 4. Muhammad Rijal / Vita Marissa (1)

World rankings: Top ten badminton players as of January 28, 2016

Men's singles

Chen L () Lee C W (3) J Ø Jørgensen (1) K Momota (1) Lin D (1) V Axelsen () Chou T-c () Tian HW () S Kidambi () T Sugiarto (1)

Women's singles

C Marín () S Nehwal () Li XR () Wang YH () R Intanon () Wang SX () Sung J-h (1) N Okuhara (1) Tai T-y () A Yamaguchi ()

Men's doubles

Lee Y-d / Yoo Y-s () M Ahsan / H Setiawan () Fu HF / Zhang N () M Boe / C Mogensen () Chai B / Hong W () H Endo / K Hayakawa () Kim G-j / Kim S-r () M Conrad-Petersen / M Pieler Kolding () Ko S-h / Shin B-ci () A Pratama / R K Suwardi ()

Women's doubles

Luo Ying / Luo Yu () N K Maheswari / G Polii (1) M Matsutomo / A Takahashi (1) K Rytter Juhl / C Pedersen (2) Chang Y-n / Lee S-h () Jung K-e / Shin S-c () Ma J / Tang YT () E Muskens / S Piek (1) N Fukuman / K Yonao (1) Tian Q / Zhao YL ()

Mixed doubles

Zhang N / Zhao YL () T Ahmad / L Natsir () Liu C / Bao YX () Ko S-h / Kim H-n (1) J Fischer Nielsen / C Pedersen (1) Xu C / Ma J () C Adcock / G Adcock () P Jordan / D Susanto () Lu K / Huang YQ () Reginald Lee C H / Chau H W ()

Top Ten Indonesian Badminton Players - Mixed doubles as of 28 January 2016

1. T Ahmad / L Natsir (2 ) 2. P Jordan / D Susanto (8 ) 3. E Subaktiar / G E Widjaja (15 2) 4. R Widianto / R P Dili (17 ) 5. R Alexander / M D Oktaviani (20 1)

6. M Kido / P Z Bernadeth (37 ) 7. A Adistia / V Marissa (41 1) 8. F Kurniawan / K Dewi (42 1) 9. H Faisal / S D Aulia (49 16) 10. I Fadhilah / W Anggraini (54 7)

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