Brenda Beenhakker
Brenda Beenhakker is a retired Dutch badminton player. She is the former European junior champion in the girls' singles event in 1995. She won Dutch National Championships for 8 times; 5 times in singles and 3 times in doubles.
Career
Beenhakker surprised as a seventeen-year-old junior in 1995 by becoming women's singles Dutch national champion. When she was eleven, she became the Dutch junior champion for the first time. Hereafter several youth titles in her and higher age categories followed. A few months after her first championship with seniors in 1995, she also crowned as European Junior Champions, became the first ever Dutch to win the girls' singles title. Beenhakker played badminton for BC Smashing in the Dutch premier league. She stopped playing international tournaments in April 2006, career lasting for 19 years.The Arnhem player started badminton when she was ten years old, after having been interested in playing tennis before. Beenhakker is married, has a daughter and has been working at a childcare center in Wijchen since 2008. As of 2009/10 season, she succeeded Frans Rademaker as trainer of BC Smashing. She gives training at BECA Arnhem and BC Mariken in Nijmegen.
Achievements
European Championships
Women's singles| Year | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result |
| 2002 | Baltiska hallen, Malmö, Sweden |  Mia Audina | 1–7, 6–8, 1–7 | Bronze |
European Junior Championships
Girls' singles| Year | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result |
| 1995 | Športová hala Olympia, Nitra, Slovakia |  Mette Justesen | 11–0, 4–11, 12–10 | Gold |
IBF International
Women's singles| Year | Tournament | Opponent | Score | Result |
| 2005 | USA SCBA International |  Miyo Akao | 7–11, 11–7, 11–2 | Winner |
| 2003 | Dutch International |  Kamila Augustyn | 5–11, 4–11 | Runner-up |
| 2002 | Dutch International | Karina de Wit | 7–5, 7–0, 7–4 | Winner |
| 2001 | Welsh International |  Sara Persson | 7–5, 7–5, 7–0 | Winner |
| 2001 | French International | Tine Rasmussen | 7–2, 8–6, 5–7, 7–1 | Winner |
| 1999 | Australian International |  Sandra Dimbour | 3–11, 5–11 | Runner-up |
| 1997 | Welsh International | Judith Meulendijks | 11–4, 11–6 | Winner |
| 1997 | Austrian International | Judith Meulendijks | 1–11, 11–8, 9–12 | Runner-up |
| 1995 | Welsh International |  Elena Rybkina | 4–11, 6–11 | Runner-up |
Women's doubles
| Year | Tournament | Partner | Opponent | Score | Result |
| 2005 | Finnish International | Paulien van Dooremalen |  Sandra Marinello Katrin Piotrowski | 11–15, 1–15 | Runner-up |