Career
After he had played in the 2015 World Championships in Jakarta he decided to put an end to his international career. De Ruiter was a doubles specialist. In September 2013, Barning got seriously injured, the reason why they couldn’t play a considerable number of tournaments.
Therefore, they fell far back on the world ranking.
In February 2014 they started to play international tournaments again and came in third place at the European Championships in Kazan, Russia. De Ruiter trained full-time at the Dutch National Sports Centre Papendal.
He was chairman of the Athletes council of the Dutch Badminton Association and he has a bachelor"s degree in sports marketing at Johan Cruyff University in Amsterdam. De Ruiter started to play badminton when he was seven years old at the Haarlem Badminton Club Duinwijck for which he played in different leagues until 2005.
In the season 2005/06, he played for the first time in the Premier League at the then premier league club Slotermeer in Amsterdam.
One year later he joined the First team of British Columbia Van Zijderveld in Amstelveen. In 2011, he returned to British Columbia Duinwijck. BV Mülheim an der Ruhr.