Krishna Prasad Garaga Explained

Krishna Prasad Garaga (born 15 March 2000) is an Indian badminton player.^[2] He was the gold medalist at the 2019 South Asian Games in the men's doubles and team events.^[3] He was part of the India team that won the 2022 Thomas Cup.^[4]

Achievements

South Asian Games

Men's doubles

BWF World Tour (3 runners-up)

The BWF World Tour, which was announced on 19 March 2017 and implemented in 2018,^[5] is a series of elite badminton tournaments sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation (BWF). The BWF World Tours are divided into levels of World Tour Finals, Super 1000, Super 750, Super 500, Super 300 (part of the HSBC World Tour), and the BWF Tour Super 100.^[6]

Men's doubles

Year	Tournament	Level	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2021	Orléans Masters	Super 100	Vishnuvardhan Goud Panjala	Ben Lane Sean Vendy	18–21, 15–21	Runner-up
2022	Syed Modi International	Super 300	Vishnuvardhan Goud Panjala	Man Wei Chong Tee Kai Wun	13–21, 16–21	Runner-up
2023	Odisha Masters	Super 100	K. Sai Pratheek	Lin Bing-wei Su Ching-heng	22–20, 18–21, 17–21	Runner-up

BWF International Challenge/Series (4 titles, 2 runners-up)

Men's doubles

Year	Tournament	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2018	Kharkiv International	Dhruv Kapila	Daniel Hess Johannes Pistorius	21–19, 21–16	Winner
2021	India International Challenge	Vishnuvardhan Goud Panjala	Arun George Sanyam Shukla	24–22, 13–21, 22–20	Winner
2022 (II)	India International Challenge	Vishnuvardhan Goud Panjala	Ishaan Bhatnagar K. Sai Pratheek	21–17, 15–21, 21–23	Runner-up
2023	Réunion Open	Vishnuvardhan Goud Panjala	Matthias Kicklitz Max Weißkirchen	21–18, 21–12	Winner
2023	Bahrain International	K. Sai Pratheek	Kazuki Shibata Naoki Yamada	21–16, 17–21, 15–21	Runner-up
2024	Iran Fajr International	K. Sai Pratheek	Job Castillo Luis Montoya	21–18, 21–19	Winner

BWF International Challenge tournament

BWF International Series tournament

BWF Future Series tournament

BWF Junior International (1 title, 4 runners-up)

Boys' doubles

Year	Tournament	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2014	India Junior International	Satwiksairaj Rankireddy	Arjun M. R. Chirag Shetty	7–11, 10–11, 6–11	Runner-up
2015	India Junior International	Satwiksairaj Rankireddy	W Sarapat Panachai Worasaktayanan	21–15, 21–17	Winner
2016	India Junior International	Dhruv Kapila	Hiroki Okamura Masayuki Onodera	5–11, 14–12, 9–11, 11–13	Runner-up
2017	Dutch Junior International	Dhruv Kapila	Su Li-wei Ye Hong-wei	13–21, 19–21	Runner-up
2018	Dutch Junior International	Dhruv Kapila	Liang Weikeng Shang Yichen	20–22, 16–21	Runner-up

BWF Junior International Grand Prix tournament

BWF Junior International Challenge tournament

BWF Junior International Series tournament

BWF Junior Future Series tournament

Notes and References

1. Web site: Badminton: Dealing with loss of his great strength, Krishna Prasad carries on path of father’s dream . Scroll.in . 12 January 2022 . 12 December 2023.
2. Web site: Players: Krishna Prasad Garaga . Badminton World Federation. 23 November 2016.
3. Web site: SAG 2019: Siril, Ashmita lead India to 6 badminton golds . Outlook India . 6 December 2019 . 10 December 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20191210170856/https://www.outlookindia.com/newsscroll/sag-2019-siril-ashmita-lead-india-to-6-badminton-golds/1679538 . 10 December 2019 . live.
4. Web site: 2022 Thomas Cup & Uber Cup Squads. 7 May 2022 .
5. Web site: Alleyne . Gayle . BWF Launches New Events Structure . . 19 March 2017 . 29 November 2017 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20171201164159/http://bwfbadminton.com/news-single/2017/03/19/bwf-launches-new-event-structure/ . 1 December 2017.
6. Web site: Sukumar . Dev . Action-Packed Season Ahead! . Badminton World Federation. 10 January 2018 . 15 January 2018 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20180113162925/http://bwfworldtour.com/news-single/2018/01/10/action-packed-season-ahead/ . 13 January 2018.