Marcus Fernaldi Gideon

Marcus Fernaldi Gideon (born 9 March 1991) is an Indonesian professional badminton player currently ranked world No. 1 in the men's doubles by the Badminton World Federation. He is from PB Jaya Raya, a badminton club in South Tangerang, Banten and has joined the club since June 2018. He won the 2017 All England Open Super Series Premier with his current partner Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo. He and Sukamuljo were recognized as the most outstanding players, and awarded as the BWF Best Male Players of the Year for two years in a row after collected seven Super Series titles in 2017 and eight World Tour titles in 2018.

Gideon and Sukamuljo often referred as "The Minions" because of their height below average badminton players and they are also known for their playing style that is fast and very agile as if bouncing here and there just like Minions in the film Despicable Me, which is often jumping up and down.

Gideon started his career in badminton at the Tangkas Jakarta club when he was 9 years old. At the age of 13, he began practicing professionally, and at the same time, he received a scholarship in Singapore. Four months later in Singapore, he returned to Indonesia because of illness, and decided not to continue his education abroad. He was again trained by his father, as a singles and doubles player. Gideon won his first international title in the men's singles discipline at the Victorian International a Future Series event.

Gideon was selected to join the national training centre in Cipayung, in the men's doubles team in 2010. Partnered with Agripina Prima Rahmanto, he won the 2011 Singapore and 2012 Iran International tournaments, and also finished as the runners-up in 2012 Vietnam and Osaka International. Feeling disappointed with the PBSI decision in the sending players to the international tournaments, Gideon decided to leave the national training centre in 2013.

Gideon then returned to the court as an independent player paired with the Beijing 2008 gold medalists, Markis Kido. The duo reaching to the semifinals at the 2013 Indonesian Masters Grand Prix Gold losing to the national player Ronald Alexander and Selvanus Geh in straight games. He captured his first Superseries title at the 2013 French Open with Kido, played from the qualification stage, and beat the seeded pairs in their journey to topped the men's doubles podium. Gideon and Kido, reached in to the semifinals at the 2014 All England Open, and then won their second title at the 2014 Indonesia Masters defeat another Indonesian players Selvanus Geh and Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo in the final with the rubber games.

Seeing his achievements with Markis Kido, Gideon invited by PBSI to rejoin the national team. In early 2015, he is paired with Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo, ended the years by occupying the top 20 BWF World Ranking, grabbed one title at the Chinese Taipei Masters. He also participated at the Southeast Asian Games, clinched the gold medal in the men's team event and a silver medal in the men's doubles event. Gideon and Sukamuljo started their 2016 tour by winning the Malaysia Masters, their performance continues to increase and won the Superseries title in India and Australia, after that the Superseries Premier title in China. At the end of 2016, he and Sukamujo reach to the top 10 world ranking, and qualified to compete at the BWF Superseries Finals held in Dubai. The duo failed to advance to the knocked out stage after stand in the third position in group stage won a match against their compatriot Angga Pratama / Ricky Karanda Suwardi, and lost two matches to Danish and Japanese pairs.

In 2019, Gideon and Sukamuljo were nominated for the Best Male Player award, but failed to retain the award after being defeated by Kento Momota.

Gideon is the son of former national badminton player, Kurniahu. He married a general practitioner, Agnes Amelinda Mulyadi on 14 April 2018. His first son Marcus Fernaldi Gideon Jr. was born in January 2019.

• BWF Best Male Players of the Year (with Sukamuljo): 2017, 2018
• Indonesian Sport Awards (with Sukamuljo):
  • Favorite Male Duo: 2018
  • Athlete of the Year: 2018
• Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia list for Entertainment and Sports (with Sukamuljo): 2020

Asian Games

Men's doubles

Asian Championships

Men's doubles

Southeast Asian Games

Men's doubles

BWF World Tour (17 titles, 2 runners-up)

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.

Men's doubles

Year	Tournament	Level	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2020	All England Open	Super 1000	Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo	Hiroyuki Endo Yuta Watanabe	18–21, 21–12, 19–21	Runner-up
2020	Indonesia Masters	Super 500	Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo	Mohammad Ahsan Hendra Setiawan	21–15, 21–16	Champion
2019	Fuzhou China Open	Super 750	Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo	Takeshi Kamura Keigo Sonoda	21–17, 21–9	Champion
2019	French Open	Super 750	Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo	Satwiksairaj Rankireddy Chirag Shetty	21–18, 21–16	Champion
2019	Denmark Open	Super 750	Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo	Mohammad Ahsan Hendra Setiawan	21–14, 21–13	Champion
2019	China Open	Super 1000	Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo	Mohammad Ahsan Hendra Setiawan	21–18, 17–21, 21–15	Champion
2019	Japan Open	Super 750	Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo	Mohammad Ahsan Hendra Setiawan	21–18, 23–21	Champion
2019	Indonesia Open	Super 1000	Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo	Mohammad Ahsan Hendra Setiawan	21–19, 21–16	Champion
2019	Indonesia Masters	Super 500	Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo	Mohammad Ahsan Hendra Setiawan	21–17, 21–11	Champion
2019	Malaysia Masters	Super 500	Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo	Ong Yew Sin Teo Ee Yi	21–15, 21–16	Champion
2018	Hong Kong Open	Super 500	Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo	Takeshi Kamura Keigo Sonoda	21–13, 21–12	Champion
2018	Fuzhou China Open	Super 750	Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo	He Jiting Tan Qiang	25–27, 21–17, 21–15	Champion
2018	French Open	Super 750	Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo	Han Chengkai Zhou Haodong	21–23, 21–8, 17–21	Runner-up
2018	Denmark Open	Super 750	Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo	Takeshi Kamura Keigo Sonoda	21–15, 21–16	Champion
2018	Japan Open	Super 750	Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo	Li Junhui Liu Yuchen	21–11, 21–13	Champion
2018	Indonesia Open	Super 1000	Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo	Takuto Inoue Yuki Kaneko	21–13, 21–16	Champion
2018	All England Open	Super 1000	Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo	Mathias Boe Carsten Mogensen	21–18, 21–17	Champion
2018	India Open	Super 500	Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo	Kim Astrup Anders Skaarup Rasmussen	21–14, 21–16	Champion
2018	Indonesia Masters	Super 500	Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo	Li Junhui Liu Yuchen	11–21, 21–10, 21–16	Champion

BWF Superseries (11 titles, 2 runners-up)

The BWF Superseries, launched on 14 December 2006 and implemented in 2007, is a series of elite badminton tournaments, sanctioned by Badminton World Federation (BWF). BWF Superseries has two levels: Superseries and Superseries Premier. A season of Superseries features twelve tournaments around the world, which introduced since 2011, with successful players invited to the BWF Superseries Finals held at the year end.

Men's doubles

Year	Tournament	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2017	World Superseries Finals	Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo	Liu Cheng Zhang Nan	21–16, 21–15	Champion
2017	Hong Kong Open	Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo	Mads Conrad-Petersen Mads Pieler Kolding	21–12, 21–18	Champion
2017	China Open	Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo	Mathias Boe Carsten Mogensen	21–19, 21–11	Champion
2017	Denmark Open	Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo	Liu Cheng Zhang Nan	16–21, 24–22, 19–21	Runner-up
2017	Japan Open	Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo	Takuto Inoue Yuki Kaneko	21–12, 21–15	Champion
2017	Korea Open	Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo	Mathias Boe Carsten Mogensen	19–21, 21–19, 15–21	Runner-up
2017	Malaysia Open	Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo	Fu Haifeng Zheng Siwei	21–14, 14–21, 21–12	Champion
2017	India Open	Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo	Angga Pratama Ricky Karanda Suwardi	21–11, 21–15	Champion
2017	All England Open	Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo	Li Junhui Liu Yuchen	21–19, 21–14	Champion
2016	China Open	Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo	Mathias Boe Carsten Mogensen	21–18, 22–20	Champion
2016	Australian Open	Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo	Angga Pratama Ricky Karanda Suwardi	21–14, 21–15	Champion
2016	India Open	Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo	Angga Pratama Ricky Karanda Suwardi	21–17, 21–13	Champion
2013	French Open	Markis Kido	Koo Kien Keat Tan Boon Heong	21–16, 21–18	Champion

     BWF World Superseries Finals tournament

     BWF Superseries Premier tournament

     BWF Superseries tournament

BWF Grand Prix (3 titles, 1 runner-up)

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

Men's doubles

Year	Tournament	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2016	Malaysia Masters	Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo	Koo Kien Keat Tan Boon Heong	18–21, 21–13, 21–18	Champion
2015	Chinese Taipei Masters	Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo	Hoon Thien How Lim Khim Wah	21–12, 21–8	Champion
2015	Chinese Taipei Open	Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo	Fu Haifeng Zhang Nan	13–21, 8–21	Runner-up
2014	Indonesia Masters	Markis Kido	Selvanus Geh Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo	21–17, 20–22, 21–14	Champion

     BWF Grand Prix Gold tournament

     BWF Grand Prix tournament

BWF International Challenge/Series (3 titles, 3 runners-up)

Men's singles

Year	Tournament	Opponent	Score	Result
2009	Victorian International	Joe Wu	17–21, 21–8, 21–15	Champion

Men's doubles

Year	Tournament	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2012	Osaka International	Agripina Prima Rahmanto	Takeshi Kamura Keigo Sonoda	17–21, 23–21, 18–21	Runner-up
2012	Vietnam International	Agripina Prima Rahmanto	Ricky Karanda Suwardi Muhammad Ulinnuha	12–21, 19–21	Runner-up
2012	Iran Fajr International	Agripina Prima Rahmanto	Tarun Kona Arun Vishnu	21–18, 21–18	Champion
2011	Singapore International	Agripina Prima Rahmanto	Lukhi Apri Nugroho Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo	21–17, 21–9	Champion

Mixed doubles

Year	Tournament	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2014	Turkey International	Gabriela Stoeva	Jones Ralfy Jansen Cisita Joity Jansen	21–17, 17–21, 12–21	Runner-up

     BWF International Challenge tournament

     BWF International Series tournament

     BWF Future Series tournament

National team

• Senior level

Individual competitions

• Senior level

Men's doubles results against World Tour Level 2–4 finalist, World Tour Finals semifinalists, World Superseries finalists, World Superseries Finals semifinalists, World Championships semifinalists, and Olympic quarterfinalists paired with:

Kevin Sanjaya Sukamuljo

Markis Kido