Rajiv Ouseph

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Rajiv Ouseph is a 21 year old English badminton player. He was born and brought up in London and studied media and communication at Loughborough University.

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Rajiv is currently (Feb 2008) ranked no 1 in England and won the Senior National Singles title at the English National Badminton Championships in February 2008. His other notable achievements are winning the European Junior Championship in 2005, the first Englishman to win the title in twenty years. In the junior national scene he has won all the singles titles from under 13 to under 19. In the European arena he has also won the under 19 Danish titles in singles and mixed doubles and the German Junior title in singles.

He won his first senior cap for England at the age of nineteen in the Thomas Cup. He also represented England in the Sudirman Cup where he was the youngest player in the English team.

Rajiv is one of the English hopefuls for the 2012 Summer Olympics.