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Alistair Casey (born 23 February 1981) is a Scottish Capped Professional badminton player. ==Career== A five time world ranking tour title winner and Scottish Capped Professional Men's Singles Badminton Player. In his youth, he was a Scottish under-21 singles champion. Alistair qualified for 5 consecutive BWF World Championships between 2007 and 2013, and was a main draw competitor of the BWF Super Series tour between 2008 and 2010. Casey qualified for the World Championships in Malaysia 2007 where he lost to world no.11 Ronald Susilo (Singapore) 23/21 21/17. He lost in the Men's Singles at the 2008 Hong Kong Super Series to Lin Dan (China) and the 2008 China Open to Chen Jin (China). He qualified for the 2009 World Championships in India, as the Scottish No.1, and had a world ranking of 58. He lost in the 2009 China Masters Super Series to Peter Gade (Denmark) Alistair travelled internationally with Richard Vaughan (Wales) as his coach/mentor for 3 years through this period, together they both also played for Paracuellos-Saglas from Madrid (Spain) in the Top Tier of the Spanish La Liga for 4 years. Casey has continued to compete internationally in Men's Singles all over the world since 2001 and is well known within the badminton community. His wide and varied travel in 2010 saw him competing in satellite events across Africa, Central and South America and the Oceania Continents. Notable results in this period were Semi Finalist of the 2009 New Zealand Open Grand Prix and Quarter Finalist of the 2010 Australian Open Grand Prix and winning the 2010 Tahiti International Challenge. In December 2010 he also achieved the notable feat of qualifying for both the Men's Singles and Men's Doubles events at the China and Hong Kong Super Series, with 54-year-old doubles partner Matthew Fogarty from the United States. In 2011 he went out in the first round of the World Championships but was runner up at the Mexico International and Semi Finalist of the Suriname International. In 2012 Winner of both the Botswana and South Africa Internationals. In 2015 Alistair made the last 16 of the $250,000 China Masters Grand Prix Gold losing to World No.6 Zhengming Wang (China) 21/13 21/14 Previously based out of Auckland, New Zealand Alistair has been based out of Los Angeles at the San Gabriel Valley Badminton Club and training under the guidance of former Olympic and Two Time World Champion Tony Gunawan. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alistair Casey」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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