Gronya Somerville

Gronya Somerville (born 10 May 1995) is an Australian professional badminton player specializing in doubles. She won eight Oceania Championships title, six in the women's doubles and two times in the mixed doubles.

Somerville, born to a British mother and Chinese father, became famous when it was revealed that she is the descendant of Qing dynastya prominent political reformer, Kang Youwei. She is studying exercise science at the Victoria University.

Somerville's skills were discovered during a badminton talent identification program which she attended after receiving a flyer from her primary school PE teacher when she was about 12 or 13. Born in Melbourne in 1995, Somerville first captured the media's attention as a young player in 2012 at the Uber Cup in central China's Hubei Province.

She won gold medals at the 2014 Oceania Badminton Championships in women's doubles and mixed team events. Her current partners are Setyana Mapasa in women's doubles and Matthew Chau in mixed doubles. She represented her country at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland. Together with Mapasa, they managed to win Australia's first ever Grand Prix title in 2016, after winning the Canada Open. They also won the Dutch Open in the same year. In 2017, she and Mapasa won the women's doubles title at the Oceania Championships, and a silver in the mixed doubles event partnered with Joel Findlay.

Oceania Championships

Women's doubles

Mixed doubles

BWF World Tour (1 title)

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

Women's doubles

Year	Tournament	Level	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2019	Canada Open	Super 100	Setyana Mapasa	Chang Ye-na Kim Hye-rin	21–16, 21–14	Winner

BWF Grand Prix (2 titles)

The BWF Grand Prix has two levels, the BWF Grand Prix and Grand Prix Gold. It is a series of badminton tournaments sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation (BWF) since 2007.

Women's doubles

Year	Tournament	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2016	Dutch Open	Setyana Mapasa	Gabriela Stoeva Stefani Stoeva	17–21, 21–17, 21–16	Winner
2016	Canada Open	Setyana Mapasa	Heather Olver Lauren Smith	21–15, 21–16	Winner

     BWF Grand Prix Gold tournament

     BWF Grand Prix tournament

BWF International Challenge/Series (7 titles, 9 runners-up)

Women's doubles

Year	Tournament	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2019	Yonex / K&D Graphics International	Setyana Mapasa	Rachel Honderich Kristen Tsai	14–21, 21–9, 21–18	Winner
2019	Nepal International	Setyana Mapasa	K. Maneesha Rutaparna Panda	21–10, 18–21, 21–11	Winner
2019	South Australia International	Setyana Mapasa	Rin Iwanaga Kie Nakanishi	15–21, 21–19, 9–21	Runner-up
2017	Nouméa International	Setyana Mapasa	Tiffany Ho Joy Lai	21–11, 21–8	Winner
2016	Brazil International	Setyana Mapasa	Chisato Hoshi Naru Shinoya	13–21, 19–21	Runner-up
2015	Italian International	Setyana Mapasa	Gabriela Stoeva Stefani Stoeva	19–21, 21–18, 6–13 Retired	Runner-up
2015	Norwegian International	Setyana Mapasa	Amanda Madsen Isabella Nielsen	21–5, 21–13	Winner
2015	Sydney International	Setyana Mapasa	Jongkongphan Kittiharakul Rawinda Prajongjai	13–21, 5–21	Runner-up
2015	Maribyrnong International	Setyana Mapasa	Hsuan-Yu Wendy Chen Shu Yu-lin	20–22, 17–21, 21–18	Winner
2015	Auckland International	Setyana Mapasa	Pan Tzu-chin Tsai Hsin-yu	21–9, 21–5	Winner
2015	Waikato International	Setyana Mapasa	Ruwindi Serasinghe Alice Wu	21–13, 21–10	Winner
2014	Auckland International	Leanne Choo	Chang Ching-hui Chang Hsin-tien	11–6, 8–11, 10–11, 9–11	Runner-up

Mixed doubles

Year	Tournament	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2019	Waikato International	Simon Leung	Hiroki Midorikawa Natsu Saito	15–21, 13–21	Runner-up
2015	Turkey International	Matthew Chau	Robert Mateusiak Nadiezda Zieba	12–21, 13–21	Runner-up
2015	Waikato International	Matthew Chau	Sawan Serasinghe Setyana Mapasa	13–21, 17–21	Runner-up
2013	Auckland International	Raymond Tam	Ross Smith Renuga Veeran	16–21, 12–21	Runner-up

     BWF International Challenge tournament

     BWF International Series tournament

     BWF Future Series tournament