Sung Ji-hyun

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Sung Ji-hyun
Personal information
Country	South Korea
Born	(1991-07-29) July 29, 1991^[1]
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)^[1]
Weight	56 kg (123 lb; 8.8 st)^[1]
Women's Singles
Highest ranking	4 (October 24, 2013)
Current ranking	5 (October 31, 2013)
BWF profile

Sung Ji-hyun (born July 29, 1991) is a badminton player from South Korea.^[2]^[1]

Sung Ji-hyun went into badminton following the path of her parents Sung Han-kook and Kim Yun-ja who both competed internationally in the 1980s.^[3]

She won the Korea Grand Prix Gold title in 2011. Unlike most Korean badminton players Sung has focused on singles and in December 2011 she received a career high ranking of number seven in the world in that discipline.^[2]

In 2012, Sung's performance at Super Series was progressingly better, with semi final performance in Indonesia Open, Singapore Open and Japan Open. She was seeded 8th at the Olympics 2012. However, her lackluster performance in the Olympics 2012 saw her failing to make past the group match, losing to Yip Pui Yin. She defended her title Korea Grand Prix Gold title at the end of the year.

Sung won her first Super Series Premier title early in 2013 at her hometown, the Korea Open. This propelled her ranking up to world no.5, the highest of her career. Sung reached semi final at the All England, losing to the eventual winner Tine Baun in an exciting match lasted for 76 minutes, 22-24, 21-19, 19-21.

Record Against Selected Opponents

Singles results against Super Series finalists, World Championships semifinalists, and Olympic quarterfinalists, plus all Olympic opponents.^[2]

Petya Nedelcheva 2–1
Jiang Yanjiao 3–1
Li Xuerui 0–3
Liu Xin 1–1
Wang Shixian 3–3
Wang Xin 3–4
Wang Yihan 1–8
Yao Xue 1–0
Wang Lin 1–1
Cheng Shao-chieh 2–0
Tai Tzu-ying 3–3
Tine Baun 1–6
Pi Hongyan 1–2
Juliane Schenk 3–4
Yip Pui Yin 2–2
Zhou Mi 1–1
Saina Nehwal 1–4
Eriko Hirose 6–0
Sayaka Sato 5–0
Minatsu Mitani 1–0
Bae Youn-joo 1–4
Wong Mew Choo 1–0
Sara Blengsli Kværnø 1–0
Porntip Buranaprasertsuk 5–3
Ratchanok Inthanon 6–3

References

↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "SUNG Jihyun - Biography". 2009 Guangzhou Asian Games Organizing Committee. Retrieved 2012-03-09.
↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "SUNG Ji Hyun". tournamentsoftware.com. Retrieved 2012-01-24.
↑ Hearn, Don. "SUNG JI HYUN – Carrying on a Family Tradition". Badzine.net. Retrieved 2012-01-24.

World rankings · Top ten badminton players as of January 30, 2014

Men's singles

1. Lee C W () 2. Chen L () 3. T Sugiarto () 4. J Ø Jørgensen () 5. K Tago () 6. B Ponsana () 7. Du PY () 8. Nguyễn T M () 9. Wang ZM () 10. Hu Y ()

Women's singles

1. Li XR () 2. Wang YH () 3. R Intanon () 4. Wang SX () 5. Sung J-h () 6. Bae Youn-joo () 7. S Nehwal (2) 8. Tai T-y (1) 9. J Schenk (1) 10. P V Shindu (1)

Men's doubles

1. M Ahsan / H Setiawan () 2. Ko S-h / Lee Y-d () 3. H Endo / K Hayakawa () 4. M Boe / C Mogensen () 5. Kim K-j / Kim S-r () 6. Liu XL / Qiu ZH () 7. Koo K K / Tan B H () 8. Hoon T H / Tan W K () 9. A Pratama / R A Saputra () 10. Lee S-m / Tsai C-h ()

Women's doubles

1. Wang XL / Yu Y () 2. K Rytter Juhl / C Pedersen () 3. Ma J / Tang JH () 4. M Matsutomo / A Takahashi () 5. Bao YX / Tang JH () 6. Jung K-e / Kim H-n () 7. P Z Bernadeth / R A Pradipta () 8. Jang Y-n / Kim S-y () 9. R Kakiiwa / M Maeda () 10. N K Maheswari / G Polii ()

Mixed doubles

1. Zhang N / Zhao YL () 2. T Ahmad / L Natsir () 3. Xu C / Ma J () 4. J Fischer Nielsen / C Pedersen () 5. C Adcock / G Adcock () 6. Chan P S / Goh L Y () 7. M Kido / P Z Bernadeth () 8. S Prapakamol / S Thungthonkam () 9. Shin B-c / Jang Y-n () 10. P Jordan / V Marissa ()

Persondata
Name	Sung Ji-hyun
Alternative names
Short description	female badminton player from South Korea
Date of birth	July 29, 1991
Place of birth
Date of death
Place of death

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