Alyssa Tirtosentono

Tirtosentono came from a badminton family, who have a Surinamese Javanese background. She started to playing badminton with her late grandfather, Press, who was a badminton coach and veteran champion, while her late father, Steven, was also a player and a huge badminton fan. At the age of 17, she started training in the NSF Sportcentrum Papendal, where she also used to live.^[4] In the Dutch Eredivisie league Alyssa is playing since a long time for her club DKC in the Hague, after a short spell at another Dutch club BC Dropshot. While in Denmark for some seasons she plays competition for Team Skælskør - Slagelse (TSS). She is also head trainer for the badminton club Appoldro in Apeldoorn, trainer at Badminton Club Phido in Doetinchem and once a week trainer of the juniors at Wageningen in the Netherlands. ^[5]

Her specialty is in the doubles events, where together with her previous doubles partner Imke van der Aar she won the Spanish International 2021 and reached the semi-finals of the Dutch Open 2021.

Together with her former partner Kirsten de Wit she won two events: the Malta International 2022 ^[6] and the Luxembourg Open 2023.^[7] In the Mixed Doubles event she won her first international title at the Hungarian International Challenge 2022 with Brian Wassink.^[8]