Putri Kusuma Wardani
Putri Kusuma Wardani is an Indonesian badminton player affiliated with Exist Jakarta club. She is the bronze medalist at 2025 BWF World Championships.
Career
Trained in Exist Jakarta club, Wardani joined the Indonesia national training center in 2018. In the national tournament, she was part of the Exist team that won the 2018 Superliga Junior. She was selected to join national team squad to compete at the 2018 Asian and World Junior Championships, and secured bronze medals in both tournaments. At the age of 16, she reached the final of a senior tournament Bangladesh International Challenge but proved second best to Vietnamese player Nguyễn Thùy Linh.In 2019, Wardani finished as finalist at the Junior Grand Prix tournament Jaya Raya Junior International. Later she won the Jakarta Junior International Series beating her compatriot Maharani Sekar Batari. In the team event, she helped the National team finish as runner-up in the Asian Junior and won the first Suhandinata Cup for Indonesia by defeating China in the mixed team final of the World Junior Championships.
In 2021, Wardani claimed her first Super 300 event title at the Spain Masters by defeating Line Christophersen of Denmark in the final at the age of 18. She then won the Czech Open and Bangladesh International.
In 2022, Wardani was featured on the Indonesian women's winning team at the Asia Team Championships. Wardani claimed her second World Tour title at the Orléans Masters by defeating Iris Wang in the final in a close rubber game. In May, she competed at the SEA Games, and won a silver medal in the women's team event and a bronze in the individual event.
2023–2025
Entering the 2023 season, Wardani began to regularly participate in the BWF grade 2 events. In the nine BWF World Tours she participated in during the first semester of 2023, her best performance was reaching the quarter-finals in the Swiss Open, Orléans Masters and Taipei Open. The rest, she had to suffer defeat in the early rounds of the Indonesia Masters, Thailand Masters, Spain Masters, Malaysia Masters, Thailand Open and Indonesia Open. She also took part in her second Asian Championships, but had to lose in the first round. Apart from that, she was also a member of the Indonesian team that competed in the Asia Mixed Team Championships and Sudirman Cup, but the team had to fall in the quarter-finals in both events.In July, Wardani competed at the Korea Open, but had to lose in the second round from 2nd seed Korean player An Se-young for second time this year. In early August, Wardani competed at the [2023 2025 Australian Open (badminton)|Australian Open (badminton)|Australian Open], but had to lose in the first round from Korean player Sim Yu-jin in straight games. In late August, Wardani competed at the [2023 BWF 2023 BWF World Championships – Women's singles|World Championships – Women's singles|World Championships], but lost in the second round from 5th seed Chinese player He Bingjiao in three games.
In 2025, Wardani was selected to join the Indonesia squad at the Sudirman Cup, where the team finished in the semi-finals and won the bronze medal. Wardani reached her first final of the year at Hylo Open in October where she lost to Mia Blichfeldt. Her next final also end in a lost which she was beaten by An Se-young in Australian Open. In December, she made her second appearance at the SEA Games, and snatched the silver medal in the team event and bronze in women's singles. She qualified to compete in the World Tour Finals in Hangzhou, finishing third in the group stage.
Achievements
World Championships
Women's singles| Year | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Ref | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2025 | Adidas Arena, Paris, France |  SEA GamesWomen's singles
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gold1
silver2
gold1