SOMERVILLE Gronya

Date of Birth: 10 May 1995

Age: 26

Gender: Female

Place of birth: MELBOURNE, VIC

Birth Country:

Australia

Place of residence : MELBOURNE, VIC

Residence Country:

Australia

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Badminton	Women's Doubles AUS MAPASA Setyana/SOMERVILLE Gronya	9
	Mixed Doubles AUS LEUNG Simon Wing Hang/SOMERVILLE Gronya	9

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Musashino Forest Sport Plaza BDM Court 2	Mixed Doubles Group Play Stage - Group C #905 INA JORDAN Praveen/OKTAVIANTI Melati Daeva 2 AUS LEUNG Simon Wing Hang/SOMERVILLE Gronya 1	Finished
	Musashino Forest Sport Plaza BDM Court 1	Women's Doubles Group Play Stage - Group C #706 KOR LEE Sohee/SHIN Seungchan 2 AUS MAPASA Setyana/SOMERVILLE Gronya 0	Finished
	Musashino Forest Sport Plaza BDM Court 1	Mixed Doubles Group Play Stage - Group C #915 JPN WATANABE Yuta/HIGASHINO Arisa 2 AUS LEUNG Simon Wing Hang/SOMERVILLE Gronya 0	Finished
	Musashino Forest Sport Plaza BDM Court 3	Mixed Doubles Group Play Stage - Group C #923 DEN CHRISTIANSEN Mathias/BOJE Alexandra 2 AUS LEUNG Simon Wing Hang/SOMERVILLE Gronya 0	Finished
	Musashino Forest Sport Plaza BDM Court 1	Women's Doubles Group Play Stage - Group C #716 CHN DU Yue/LI Yin Hui 2 AUS MAPASA Setyana/SOMERVILLE Gronya 0	Finished
	Musashino Forest Sport Plaza BDM Court 3	Women's Doubles Group Play Stage - Group C #719 DEN FRUERGAARD Maiken/THYGESEN Sara 1 AUS MAPASA Setyana/SOMERVILLE Gronya 2	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

World Championships

Rank	Event	Year	Location
Last 32	Women's Doubles	2019	Basel, SUI
Last 32	Mixed Doubles	2019	Basel, SUI
Last 32	Women's Doubles	2014	Copenhagen, DEN
Last 32	Women's Doubles	2013	Guangzhou, CHN
Last 64	Women's Doubles	2017	Glasgow, GBR
Last 64	Mixed Doubles	2014	Copenhagen, DEN

Oceania Championships

Rank	Event	Year	Location
1	Mixed Doubles	2020	Ballarat, VIC, AUS
1	Women's Doubles	2020	Ballarat, VIC, AUS
1	Mixed Doubles	2019	Melbourne, VIC, AUS
1	Women's Doubles	2019	Melbourne, VIC, AUS
1	Women's Doubles	2018	Auckland, NZL
1	Women's Doubles	2017	Noumea, NCL
2	Mixed Doubles	2017	Noumea, NCL

Oceania Championships Team

Rank	Event	Year	Location
1	Women's Team	2020	Ballarat, VIC, AUS
1	Mixed Team	2019	Melbourne, VIC, AUS
1	Women's Team	2018	Auckland, NZL

BWF World Tour - Eliminations per phase since 2017

Year	Event	W	RU	SF	QF	L16	L32	L64	Group
2020	Doubles W	-	-	-	-	1x	4x	-	-
2020	Doubles X	-	-	-	-	-	1x	-	-
2019	Doubles W	1x	-	-	-	6x	7x	-	-
2019	Doubles X	-	-	-	-	3x	3x	-	-
2018	Doubles W	-	-	-	1x	-	3x	-	-
2017	Doubles W	-	-	-	1x	1x	3x	-	-

BWF World Superseries - Eliminations per phase since 2017

Year	Event	W	RU	SF	QF	L16	L32
2017	Doubles W	-	-	-	1x	1x	3x

World Tour & World Superseries - Ten best performances since 2017

Rank	Year	Event	Competition	Location
1	2019	Women's Doubles	BWF World Tour	Calgary, AB, CAN
Quarterfinal	2018	Women's Doubles	BWF World Tour	Bangkok, THA
Quarterfinal	2017	Women's Doubles	BWF World Superseries	Fuzhou, CHN
Quarterfinal	2017	Women's Doubles	BWF World Tour	Bangkok, THA
Last 16	2020	Women's Doubles	BWF World Tour	Bangkok, THA
Last 16	2019	Women's Doubles	BWF World Tour	Gwangju, KOR
Last 16	2019	Mixed Doubles	BWF World Tour	Gwangju, KOR
Last 16	2019	Women's Doubles	BWF World Tour	Macau, CHN
Last 16	2019	Women's Doubles	BWF World Tour	Changzhou, CHN
Last 16	2019	Mixed Doubles	BWF World Tour	Fullerton, CA, USA
Last 16	2019	Women's Doubles	BWF World Tour	Fullerton, CA, USA
Last 16	2019	Mixed Doubles	BWF World Tour	Calgary, AB, CAN
Last 16	2019	Women's Doubles	BWF World Tour	Singapore, SIN
Last 16	2019	Women's Doubles	BWF World Tour	Kuala Lumpur, MAS
Last 16	2017	Women's Doubles	BWF World Superseries	Hong Kong, CHN
Last 16	2017	Women's Doubles	BWF World Tour	Taipei, TPE

Thomas & Uber Cup

Rank	Event	Year	Location
Group Stage	Women's Team	2018	Bangkok, THA

TOTAL BWF Sudirman Cup

Rank	Event	Year	Location
Final 15-16	Mixed Team	2017	Gold Coast, QLD, AUS
Final 23-24	Mixed Team	2019	Nanning, CHN

Legend
W - Winner, RU - Runner-up, SF - Semifinal, QF - Quarterfinal, L16 - Last 16, L32 - Last 32, L64 - Last 64, M - Men, W - Women, X - Mixed

Gron (ayof2013.olympics.com.au, 20 Jan 2013)

Occupation:

Exercise Science, Human Movement Studies - Victoria University, Footscray, VIC, AUS

Languages spoken:

English, Mandarin

Play Badminton [Melbourne, VIC, AUS]

Stuart Brehaut [national], AUS

Right (bwfbadminton.com, 20 Aug 2019)

Sporting relatives:

Her great-great grandfather Kang Youwei was a politician and reformer in imperial China, during the late Qing dynasty in the 19th and early 20th century. (china.org.cn, 14 May 2015; scmp.com, 24 Nov 2017; olympics.com.au, 27 Mar 2020)

She took up the sport at age 12 in Melbourne, VIC, Australia. (bwfbadminton.com, 20 Aug 2019; olympics.com.au, 27 Mar 2020)

She took part in a national talent identification programme in Australia. "My primary school physical education teacher gave me a flyer and I happened to be in the age group they were looking for. I had no experience. I did tennis and gymnastics, but I fell in love with badminton. I enjoyed tennis but it was too monotonous and I preferred badminton." (bwfbadminton.com, 20 Aug 2019; olympics.com.au, 27 Mar 2020)

To win a medal at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo and at the world championships. (bwfbadminton.com, 20 Aug 2019)

Chinese badminton player Lin Dan, Malaysian badminton player Lee Chong Wei. (wantchinatimes.com, 21 May 2013)

General Interest

General
HERITAGE
Her great-great grandfather Kang Youwei was a prominent figure in Chinese history. His ideas contributed to the reforms that led to the formation of a constitutional monarchy in the late Qing dynasty. He was also a noted calligrapher and scholar. "I know my great-great grandfather was a famous person though he passed away long time ago. He is a pretty inspiring person because of the kind of things he did in China. My mother was born in Australia, but with Irish and Scottish lineage, and her father was born in Guangzhou [People's Republic of China], before he moved to Hong Kong and then Melbourne where I was born. Since I was young, my mum told us that he [Kang] was like a revolutionist and really helped change China with his unique thinking." (china.org.cn, 14 May 2015; scmp.com, 24 Nov 2017; olympics.com.au, 27 Mar 2020)

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Legend

:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event

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