Conrado Company

Career

Company came from a big family of eight children. During the early 1960s, Conrado Company travelled to Hong Kong with his trainer Sy Kim Piao to watch his favorite players in an international tournament. Later Company, decided to play competitive badminton and played doubles with his trainer-coach Sy at the 1963 Hong Kong Open Badminton Championship. and 14.

Company was also part of the Philippine national badminton team that participated at the 1963, 1965, 1967 and 1969 Asian Badminton Championship.

After his retirement as a player in competitive badminton, Company became a ranking official for the Philippine Badminton Association.

Achievements

• Company later went on to win more tournaments. He won 18 national titles, won the singles at the 1963 National Open, won both the singles of the 1963 and 1965 edition of the All-Filipino Metropolitan Open and won 14 in doubles with three different partners in 1964 and 1969. Conrado Company won doubles champion with partners Sy Kim Piao, Dany So and Armand Yanga. Company was also part of the Philippine national badminton team that won the team event in the 1977 South Vietnam Invitational tournament and a member of the national team at the 1962, 1966 and 1974 Asian Games. Company also won the 1967 Taipei Open doubles tournament.