Chetan Anand Buradagunta is a badminton player from India. Chetan Anand was a four time National Badminton champion in 2004, 2007, 2008 and 2010. He has a career best world ranking of world no 11. His Ranking has dropped to 54 since October 2010 due to his ankle injury. He is also the recipient of the prestigious Indian Arjuna Award. He started practicing the game at a very young age and soon was elevated to the rank of number one in India in badminton. Chetan Anand was born on 8th July 1980 in Vijayawada in India. His father’s name is Harshavardhan and his mother’s name is Suguna. He has one younger brother named Sandeep Anand. His father had played in the inter-state Lecturer’s Tournaments and this made Chetan took a personal interest in the game. He completed his schooling at Veeramachineni Paddayya Siddhartha Public School and got his degree in engineering in Mechanical Manufacturing from the Potluri V Prasad Siddhartha Institute of Technology at Vijayawada. He is employed in the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation as the senior executive engineer. 

He started practicing the game at a very young age and soon was elevated to the rank of number one in India in badminton. He completed his schooling at Veeramachineni Paddayya Siddhartha Public School and got his degree in engineering in Mechanical Manufacturing from the Potluri V Prasad Siddhartha Institute of Technology at Vijayawada. He is employed in the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation as the senior executive engineer. He became the National Badminton Champion for first time in 2004 after faltering in the finals in 2002 and 2003 to Abhinn Shyam Gupta. He also won the Toulouse Open in France in 2004, recovering from a back injury during the summer 2004. In 2005 he won Irish and Scottish open badminton tournaments in Ireland and Scotland. In 2008 he won his first Grand Prix title at the Bitburger Open. He was also the Runner-up in Dutch Grand Prix in 2008 and followed them with a couple of quarterfinal appearances. He touched his career best world ranking 10 in 2009 February. In 2009 he won the Dutch Open Grand Prix which he lost in the finals in 2008. He also won the Jaypee Syed Modi Memorial Grand Prix at Lucknow in December 2009.