[2] A durable all around player who won singles at the Singapore Open in 1991,[3] Suprianto's greatest success came in doubles events.

In the mid-1990s he and fellow countryman Rudy Gunawan formed one of the world's leading men's doubles teams.

They won several top tier international titles, including the 1994 All-England Championship, but could not quite keep pace with countrymen Rexy Mainaky and Ricky Subagja who became the decade's most successful pair.

[4] Suprianto was a member of Indonesia's world champion Thomas Cup (men's international) teams in 1994, 1996 and 2002.

[5] After Rudy Gunawan's retirement, Suprianto focused on mixed doubles and continued his high level of play by winning international titles with a variety of partners.