Eefje Muskens

Muskens (right) at the 2016 Indonesia Super Series Premier

Personal information

Country

Netherlands

Born

17 June 1989 (age 34)
Goirle, Netherlands

Height

1.64 m (5 ft 5 in)

Handedness

Right

Women's & mixed doubles

Highest ranking

7 (WD) (11 February 2016)

Medal record

Women's badminton

Representing Netherlands
European Championships
	2016 La Roche-sur-Yon	Women's doubles
	2014 Kazan	Women's doubles
European Women's Team Championships
	2008 Almere	Women's team
European Junior Championships
	2007 Völklingen	Mixed team

BWF profile

Eefje Muskens (born 17 June 1989), is a Dutch former badminton player who specializes in doubles.^[1] Her last partner for women's doubles was Selena Piek. She won the 2014, 2015 and 2016 editions of Dutch National Badminton Championships with Piek. Prior to that she already won her first National title in 2013 with Samantha Barning.^[2] She won a silver medal at the 2016 European Badminton Championships and a bronze medal at the 2014 European Badminton Championships with Piek. In 2016, she and Piek competed at the Rio Summer Olympics and reached the quarter-finals round.^[3] She also reached a semi-final at the 2016 Indonesia Open and won the 2014 edition of the Dutch Open and both the 2013 editions of the Scottish Open and the Bitburger Open BWF Grand Prix events.

After her retirement due to a shoulder injury in 2017, she first became the National coach for the Dutch Para-Badminton team and also head-coach of the talents at the Regional Centre in Arnhem. Currently Muskens is appointed as one of the doubles coaches of Badminton Nederland at Papendal.

Achievements

European Championships

Women's doubles

Year	Venue	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2014	Gymnastics Center, Kazan, Russia	Selena Piek	Line Damkjær Kruse Marie Røpke	23–25, 11–21	Bronze
2016	Vendéspace, La Roche-sur-Yon, France	Selena Piek	Christinna Pedersen Kamilla Rytter Juhl	18–21, 17–21	Silver

BWF Grand Prix

The BWF Grand Prix had two levels, the Grand Prix and Grand Prix Gold. It was a series of badminton tournaments sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation (BWF) and played between 2007 and 2017.

Women's doubles

Year	Tournament	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2012	Dutch Open	Samantha Barning	Selena Piek Iris Tabeling	21–19, 16–21, 20–22	Runner-up
2013	Canada Open	Selena Piek	Yu Xiaohan Huang Yaqiong	21–13, 11–21, 13–21	Runner-up
2013	Bitburger Open	Selena Piek	Ng Hui Ern Ng Hui Lin	22–20, 21–15	Winner
2013	Scottish Open	Selena Piek	Ng Hui Ern Ng Hui Lin	25–23, 15–21, 21–16	Winner
2014	Dutch Open	Selena Piek	Shendy Puspa Irawati Vita Marissa	11–8, 4–11, 11–9, 11–10	Winner
2015	Canada Open	Selena Piek	Jwala Gutta Ashwini Ponnappa	19–21, 16–21	Runner-up
2015	Dutch Open	Selena Piek	Gabriela Stoeva Stefani Stoeva	22–24, 15–21	Runner-up
2015	Brasil Open	Selena Piek	Chen Qingchen Jia Yifan	17–21, 14–21	Runner-up
2016	Syed Modi International	Selena Piek	Jung Kyung-eun Shin Seung-chan	15–21, 13–21	Runner-up

BWF Grand Prix Gold tournament

BWF Grand Prix tournament

BWF International Challenge/Series

Women's doubles

Year	Tournament	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2009	Norwegian International	Samantha Barning	Helle Nielsen Marie Røpke	13–21, 18–21	Runner-up
2010	Dutch International	Samantha Barning	Maria Helsbøl Anne Skelbæk	21–8, 21–18	Winner
2012	Croatian International	Samantha Barning	Johanna Goliszewski Carla Nelte	21–18, 21–19	Winner
2012	Norwegian International	Samantha Barning	Selena Piek Iris Tabeling	22–20, 21–16	Winner
2012	Irish International	Samantha Barning	Audrey Fontaine Émilie Lefel	21–12, 21–8	Winner
2013	Irish Open	Selena Piek	Ng Hui Ern Ng Hui Lin	21–17, 21–10	Winner
2013	Italian International	Selena Piek	He Tian Tang Renuga Veeran	21–10, 21–8	Winner
2014	Swedish Masters	Selena Piek	Line Damkjær Kruse Marie Røpke	21–19, 21–11	Winner
2014	Belgian International	Selena Piek	Samantha Barning Iris Tabeling	11–9, 9–11, 8–11, 11–7, 11–9	Winner