Ruud Bosch | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Birth name | Ruud Bosch | ||||||||||||||||||||
Country | Netherlands | ||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Beuningen, Netherlands | 28 July 1984||||||||||||||||||||
Handedness | Right | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Highest ranking | 22 (MD 14 November 2013) 23 (XD 15 October 2009) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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BWF profile |
Ruud Bosch (born 28 July 1984) is a Dutch former badminton player. He is a doubles specialist.[1] He became a member of the Netherlands national badminton team in 2004, then in 2006, he won a silver medal at the European Badminton Mixed Team Championships.[2] After quitting the men's doubles combination with Koen Ridder after eight years in August 2014, Bosch moved to Taiwan to form a new combination with Tien Tzu-Chieh in men's doubles and Shuai Pei-ling in mixed doubles.[3]
After two years in Taiwan, he returned to Europe to play again in the German Bundesliga for Union Lüdinghausen club. He won the Dutch National Badminton Championships seven times, four times in the men's doubles (2006, 2009, 2011 and 2013) and three times in the mixed doubles (2008, 2011 and 2013). In December 2018, Bosch was appointed as head coach of the Netherlands and in October 2023 his contract at Badminton Nederland was terminated.