World Badminton Championship: Indian Men’s Doubles Record in All Editions

Starting from the 1st edition of World Badminton Championships in 1977, Indian Men’s Doubles teams have represented India in 22 editions. But, their performance have been the weakest among all Indian teams of other events. Out of 22 teams participating across 22 editions, none of them have even reached quarterfinals. Check the appearances and results of all the Indian Mixed Doubles team in all editions.

World Badminton Championship: History of Medal Winners from India, History of Indians in Men’s Singles, History of Indians in Women’s Singles, History of Indian Mixed Doubles Teams, History of Indian Women’s Doubles Team

Name of Men’s Doubles Teams Participating in Every Edition

1977: Uday Pawar / Pradeep Gandhe, Prakash Padukone / Partho Ganguli
1980: Partho Ganguli / Vikram Singh
1983: Pradeep Gandhe / Uday Pawar
1985: Leory D’Sa/Sanat Misram, Pradeep S. Gandhe / Vimal Kumar
1987 None
1989: Sushant Bora / Vimal Kumar, Praveen Kumar / Manoj Kumar
1991: Rajeev Bagga / Vinod Kumar
1993: Ajay Kanwar / Vijaydeep Singh, Pullela Gopichand / George Thomas
1995: Rajeev Bagga / Pullela Gopichand, Jaseel P. Ismail / Vijaydeep Singh
1997 Jaseel P. Ismail / Vijaydeep Singh
1999 Jaseel P. Ismail / Vincent Lobo
2001 V. Diju / Sanave Thomas
2003: V Diju / Thomas Sanave, Jaseel P. Ismail / Jaison Xavier
2005 Rupesh Kumar / Thomas Sanave
2006 Rupesh Kumar / Thomas Sanave
2007 Rupesh Kumar / Thomas Sanave
2009 Akshay Dewalkar / J Sanyal, Rupesh Kumar / Thomas Sanave, Tarun Kona / Arun Vishnu
2010 Rupesh Kumar / Thomas Sanave
2011 Rupesh Kumar / Thomas Sanave, Pranaav Chopra / Tarun Kona
2013 Tarun Kona / Arun Vishnu, Pranaav Jerry Chopra / Akshay Dewalkar
2014 Pranaav Jerry Chopra / Akshay Dewalkar, Manu Attri / Sumeeth Reddy
2015 Pranaav Jerry Chopra / Akshay Dewalkar, Manu Atri / Sumeeth Reddy
2017 Manu Atri / Sumeeth Reddy, Arjun MR / Ramchandran Shlok, Satwiksairaj / Chirag Shetty

Men’s Doubles Statistics in Championship

3rd Round is the best performance by Indian Men’s Doubles Teams.
Max Appearance: 22 editions
No Teams: 1987
22 teams have participated in 22 editions.
2 editions (2009, 2017) saw maximum 3 Indian teams.

Maxiumum Appearances as Partners

6 Rupesh Kumar / Thomas Sanave (2005-11)
3 Pranaav Jerry Chopra / Akshay Dewalkar (2013-15), Manu Atri / Sumeeth Reddy (2014-17)
2 Uday Pawar / Pradeep Gandhe (1977, 1983), Jaseel P. Ismail / Vijaydeep Singh (1995-97), Diju / Sanave Thomas (2001-03), Tarun Kona / Arun Vishnu (2009, 2013)
1: Prakash Padukone / Partho Ganguli (1977), Leory D’Sa/Sanat Misram, Pradeep S. Gandhe / Vimal Kumar (1985), Sushant Bora / Vimal Kumar, Praveen Kumar / Manoj Kumar (1989), Rajeev Bagga / Vinod Kumar (1991), Ajay Kanwar / Vijaydeep Singh, Pullela Gopichand / George Thomas (1993), Rajeev Bagga / Pullela Gopichand (1995), Jaseel P. Ismail / Jaison Xavier (2001), Jaseel P. Ismail / Jaison Xavier (2003), Akshay Dewalkar / J Sanyal (2009), Pranaav Chopra / Tarun Kona (2011), Arjun MR / Ramchandran Shlok, Satwiksairaj / Chirag Shetty (2017)

Maxiumum Appearances with Different Partners

8 Thomas Sanave (2 partners)
4 Akshay Dewalkar (2 partners), Pranaav Jerry Chopra (2 partners), Jaseel P. Ismail (3 partners)
3 Pradeep S. Gandhe (3 partners), Vijaydeep Singh (2 partners)
2 Partho Ganguli, Pullela Gopichand, Rajeev Bagga

Results of All Men’s Doubles Matches in All Editions
1977 Uday Pawar / Pradeep Gandhe, Prakash Padukone / Partho Ganguli
Uday Pawar / Pradeep Gandhe

Round 1: Bye
Round 2: def Sigurdur Haraldsson / Johann Kjartansson (Iceland)
Round 3: Lost to Tjun Tjun / Johan Wahjudi (Indonesia)

Prakash Padukone / Partho Ganguli

Round 1: Bye
Round 2: def Billy Gilliland / Gordon Hamilton (England)
Round 3: Lost to Kinji Zeniya / Masao Tsuchida (Japan)

1980 Partho Ganguli / Vikram Singh

Round 1 Bye
Round 2 lost to Misbun / Jalani Sidek 8-15 16-18

1983 Pradeep Gandhe / Uday Pawar

1st Round def Lex Coene / Guus van der Vlugt (Netherlands) 15-6 15-5
2nd Round lost to Thorbjörn Petersson / Lars Wengberg (Sweden) 6-15 10-15

1985 Leory D’Sa/Sanat Misram, Pradeep S. Gandhe / Vimal Kumar
Pradeep S. Gandhe / Vimal Kumar lost Round 1 to Kim Moon-soo / Park Joo-bong (Korea) 5-15 8-15
Leory D’Sa/Sanat Misra

Qualification Round walkover by Pakistan pair
1st Round def Graeme Robson (New Zealand) / Rolf Rüsseler (Germany) 15-11 15-9
2nd Round lost to Hadibowo Susanto / Rudy Heryanto (Indonesia) 6-15 7-15

1987: None
1989: Sushant Bora / Vimal Kumar and Praveen Kumar / Manoj Kumar Did not appear
1991: Rajeev Bagga / Vinod Kumar lost Round 1 to Kai Mitteldorf / Guido Schänzler (Germany) 15-4 6-15 5-15
1993: Ajay Kanwar / Vijaydeep Singh, Pullela Gopichand / George Thomas
Pullela Gopichand / George Thomas lost Qualification to Thorsteinn Pall Haengsson (Iceland)/ Nick Hall (New Zealand) 10-15, 15-1, 15-6
Ajay Kanwar / Vijaydeep Singh

Round 1: def Daniel Gaspar / Zdenek Musil (Czech Republic) 15-4 15-7
Round 2: lost to Ricky Subagja / Rudy Gunawan (Indonesia) 4-15 2-15

1995 Rajeev Bagga / Pullela Gopichand, Jaseel P. Ismail / Vijaydeep Singh
Rajeev Bagga / Pullela Gopichand lost Round 1 vs Peter Blackburn / Paul Staight (Australia) 9-15 9-15
Jaseel P. Ismail / Vijaydeep Singh

1st Round: def Craig Booley / Stuart Metcalfe (Australia) 15-10 15-8
2nd Round: lost vs Kim Dong-moon / Yoo Yong-sung (South Korea) 3-15 4-15

1997 Jaseel P. Ismail / Vijaydeep Singh lost Round 1 vs Michael Helber / Björn Siegemund (Germany) 9-15 10-15
1999: Jaseel P. Ismail / Vincent Lobo lost Round 1 vs Yang Ming / Yu Yang (China) 11-15 15-11 6-15
2001 V. Diju / Sanave Thomas

1st Round: def Jan Fröhlich / Petr Martinec (Czech Republic) 15-2 15-0
2nd Round: lost vs Cheng Rui / Wang Wei (China) 6-15 5-15

2003 V. Diju / Sanave Thomas, Jaseel P. Ismail / Jaison Xavier

Jaseel P. Ismail / Jaison Xavier lost Round 1 vs Keita Masuda / Tadashi Ohtsuka (Japan) 7-15 5-15
V. Diju / Thomas Sanave lost Round 1 vs Patapol Ngernsrisuk / Sudket Prapakamol (Thailand) 13-15 12-15

2005 Rupesh Kumar / Thomas Sanave

1st Round: Bye
2nd Round: lost vs Candra Wijaya / Sigit Budiarto (Indonesia) 11-15 11-15

2006 Rupesh Kumar / Thomas Sanave

1st Round: def Malkov / Khlestov (Russia) 21-10 21-12
2nd Round: def Njoto / Wiratama (Hong Kong) 21-17 19-21 21-19
3rd Round: lost to Fu / Cai (China) 15-21 16-21

2007 Rupesh Kumar / Thomas Sanave

1st Round: def Svetoslav Stoyanov / Mihail Popov (France) 21-9 21-15
2nd Round: lost to Hendra Gunawan / Joko Riyadi (Indonesia) 13-21 14-2

2009 Akshay Dewalkar / J Sanyal, Rupesh Kumar / Thomas Sanave, Tarun Kona / Arun Vishnu

Round 1: Walkover
Round 2: lost vs V Durkin / A Nikolaenko (Russia) 21-17 13-21 18-21

Lost Round 1

Tarun Kona / Arun Vishnu vs Chen H-l / Lin Y-l (Chinese Taipei) 12-21 14-21
Rupesh Kumar / Thomas Sanave vs K Hayakawa / K Kazuno (Japan) 13-21 21-23

2010 15th seed Rupesh Kumar / Thomas Sanave

1st Round def O Fagbemi / J Ifraimu (Nigeria) 21-18 21-10
2nd Round def D James / W Viljoen (South Africa) 21-14 21-16
3rd Round lost vs 8th seed L Paaske / J Rasmussen (Denmark) 16-21 16-21

2011 Rupesh Kumar / Thomas Sanave, Pranaav Chopra / Tarun Kona
Pranaav Chopra / Tarun Kona lost Round 1 vs Chen H-l / Lin Y-l (Chinese Taipei) 17-21 13-21
Rupesh Kumar / Thomas Sanave

Round 1 def M Fuchs / O Roth (Germany) 9-21 21-18 21-17
Round 2 lost vs 8th seed A Yulianto / HA Gunawan (Indonesia) 21-19 11-21 12-21

2013 Tarun Kona / Arun Vishnu, Pranaav Jerry Chopra / Akshay Dewalkar
Pranaav Jerry Chopra / Akshay Dewalkar did not appear
Tarun Kona / Arun Vishnu

Round 1: Walkover
Round 2: lost vs Alvent Yulianto Chandra / Markis Kido (Indonesia) 15-21 21-13 17-21

2014 Pranaav Jerry Chopra / Akshay Dewalkar, Manu Attri / Sumeeth Reddy
Manu Attri / Sumeeth Reddy

Round 1: def N Khakimov / V Kuznetsov (Russia) 21-19 21-23 21-19
Round 2: def H Hashimoto / N Hirata (Japan) 21-19 21-19
Round 3: lost vs 2nd seed Lee Y-d / Yoo Y-s (South Korea) 12-21 17-21

Pranaav Jerry Chopra / Akshay Dewalkar

Round 1: def Chan Y L / Lee C H (Hong Kong) 21-19 16-21 22-20
Round 2: lost vs 5th seed Kim K-j / Kim S-r (South Korea) 15-21 17-21

2015 Pranaav Jerry Chopra / Akshay Dewalkar, Manu Atri / Sumeeth Reddy
Manu Atri / Sumeeth Reddy lost vs Cai Y / Lu K (China) 9-21 7-21
Pranaav Jerry Chopra / Akshay Dewalkar

Round 1 def N Khakimov / V Kuznetsov (Russia) 17-21 21-11 21-11
Round 2 lost vs M Conrad-Petersen / M Pieler Kolding (Denmark) 16-21 12-21

2017 Manu Atri / Sumeeth Reddy, Arjun MR / Ramchandran Shlok, Satwiksairaj / Chirag Shetty

Manu Atri / Sumeeth Reddy lost Round 1 vs Chung E-s / Kim D-y (South Korea) 20-22 11-21
Arjun MR / Ramchandran Shlok lost Round 1 vs Liao M-c / Su C-h (Chinese Taipei) 14-21 21-19 14-21
Satwiksairaj / Chirag Shetty lost Round 1 vs H Endo / Y Watanabe (Japan) 8-21 12-21