Tai Tzu-ying

Tai Tzu-ying
Personal information
Country	Taiwan
Born	(1994-06-20) 20 June 1994[1]
Height	1.62 m (5 ft 4 in)[1]
Handedness	Right
Women's Singles
Highest ranking	8 (20 June 2013)
Current ranking	8 (20 June 2013)
BWF profile

Tai Tzu-ying (traditional Chinese: 戴資穎; simplified Chinese: 戴资颖; pinyin: Dài Zīyǐng; Wade–Giles: Tai Tzu-ying; born 20 June 1994) is a female badminton player from Taiwan.^[1] In 2011, she won the title of Taiwanese ranking competition when she was only 16 years and 6 months old, being the youngest No.1 in Taiwan badminton history. She recently studies in Kaohsiung Municipal Kaohsiung Senior High School.

Tai was the finalist at the 2010 Singapore Super Series, she won her first international title at the 2011 US Open Grand Prix Gold at the age of 17.^[2]

Early years

Tai’s father is a fire fighter and the director of Kaohsiung city’s badminton committee. His favorite activity in spare time is playing badminton. Tai started playing badminton as three grader in elementary school. She won the title in the nation-wide second division game, and got the access to participate the first division’s games. Furthermore, she was the youngest player to compete in the first division.

In 2009, tai, 15, began to compete in international games. She was the runner-up in her first game, Vietnam Open. On July, she represented Kaohsiung City to play in the National Games and went into the quarter final. In the same month, she signed up for Asian Youth Badminton Tournament (Malaysia) and became the runner-up. On December, Tai played East Asian Games on the behalf of Chinese Taipei and won one silver and one cooper medal.

In 2012, she won her first ever Super Series Title in Japan Open and made a history as the youngest player who won Super Series Title (red- 2nd youngest now, after Ratchanok won India Open, i think it's 3rd now after akane yamaguchi won japan open 2013).

In August 2013, she was bought by the team Banga Beats to play for them in the Indian Badminton League.

Achievements

Individual Titles (5)

Year	Tournament	Opponent in final	Score
2013	Malaysia Open	Yao Xue	21-17, 21-14
2012	World University Badminton Championship	Pai Hsiao-Ma	21-13 retired
2012	Chinese Taipei Open	Lindaweni Fanetri	21-19, 20-22, 22-20
2012	Japan Open	Eriko Hirose	9-21, 21-9, 21-14
2011	US Open	Sayaka Sato	21-16, 19-21, 21-06

     Super Series tournament

     Grand Prix Gold and Grand Prix tournament

Performance timeline

Key

Tournament	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012
Olympic Games
Summer Olympics	A	NH			1R*
Asian Games
Asian Games	NH		A	NH
BWF World Championships
World Championships	NH	A	A	A	NH
BWF Asia Championships
Asia Championships	A	A	A	2R	2R
Uber Cup
Uber Cup Single	A	NH	A	NH	QF
Sudirman Cup
Sudirman Cup Single	NH	A	NH	QF	NH
BWF Super Series Premier
Korea Open	SS			1R	2R
All England Open	SS			2R	SF
Indonesia Open	SS			2R	1R
Denmark Open	SS			QF
China Open	SS			A
BWF Super Series
Malaysia Open	A	A	Q2	2R	1R
Korea Open	A	A	2R	SSP
All England Open	A	A	A	SSP
Swiss Open	A	A	A	GPG
India Open	GPG			A	1R
Indonesia Open	A	A	1R	SSP
Singapore Open	A	A	F	2R	2R
China Masters	A	A	A	1R
Japan Open	A	A	2R	QF	W
Denmark Open	A	A	2R	SSP
French Open	A	A	1R	SF
Hong Kong Open	A	A	2R	A
China Open	A	A	1R	SSP
BWF Super Series Masters Finals
World Superseries Finals	NH	A	A	A

1R* For the first time, the preliminary stage will consist of 16 groups of either two or three players. Each player will play every other member of the group with the top most player advancing to the knock-out stage, ultimately leading to the winner, Tai Tzu Ying advanced to the first round of knock-out stage but lost to Li Xuerui of China in 21-16, 23-21.

Record Against Selected Opponents

Record against Super Series finalists, World Championships semifinalists, and Olympic quarterfinalists.^[3]

References