Abdul Jalil (badminton player)

Syed Abdul Jalil Waiz (Born 17-Sep-1991) is a male Badminton Player from Afghanistan.

Syed Abdul Jalil Waiz is currently the dominant Men's Singles player in Afghanistan. Jalil started playing Badminton at age 12 and began his professional career at age 14. He soon became Afghanistan's National Champion in 2006.

He participated in several International Championships where he beat players from Iraq, Australia, Philippines and Mongolia.

He has been able to train with the English National Champion and World No.21 Aamir GHAFFAR for 4 months and also took part in the BWF (Badminton World Federation) training camp in Guangzhou, China in 2006 and trained for 2 months in Bay Badminton Center in USA.

In 2007 Syed Abdul Jalil Waiz joined the former Olympic Gold Medalist Joy Cheek's team DARFUR to raise the awareness and bring an end to the crisis in DARFUR, Sudan. He is the only professional athlete from Afghanistan who is named in the Team DARFUR.