Wang Shixian

Wang Shixian
Personal information
Birth name	王适娴
Country	China
Born	(1990-02-13) February 13, 1990 Suzhou, Jiangsu, China
Height	1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Weight	60 kg (130 lb; 9.4 st)
Handedness	Right
Coach	Zhang Ning
Women's singles
Highest ranking	1 (January 13, 2011[1])
Current ranking	3 (November 22, 2013[2])
Medal record Women's badminton Competitor for  China World Championships Bronze 2010 Paris Women's singles Asian Championships Bronze 2012 Qingdao Women's singles Uber Cup Gold 2012 Wuhan Team Sudirman Cup Gold 2011 Qingdao Team Asian Games Gold 2010 Guangzhou Women's singles Gold 2010 Guangzhou Women's team East Asian Games Gold 2013 Tianjin Women's team Silver 2013 Tianjin Women's singles World Junior Championships Gold 2008 Pune Mixed team Bronze 2008 Pune Girls' singles Asian Junior Championships Gold 2008 Mixed team Silver 2008 Girls' singles
BWF profile
Updated on 13:00, 17 November 2013 (UTC).

Wang Shixian (born February 13, 1990 in Suzhou, Jiangsu) is a female badminton player from China and former World No. 1 women's singles player.

Career

Wang Shixian was admitted into Chinese Junior National Team in 2005 and was soon promoted to the second-level adult team a year later. But she got the chance to compete in international stages only in 2009, after being promoted to the first-level adult team.

2007

Wang Shixian competed in the World Junior Championship but lost to a Korean player in the final.

2009

Early in this year, she won her first Super Series title in Malaysia open, beating her teammate, Wang Xin.

In the China Masters, Wang Shixian beat a series of strong rivals, including her teammate Jiang Yanjiao and Malaysian single player Wong Mew Choo. She also helped to win the team gold for the Jiangsu Province in the 11th China National Games but was beaten in the final of the women's singles by Wang Lin.

2010

Wang Shixian won gold at the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou beating Wang Xin.^[3]

2011

Wang Shixian won the first two titles competed in the year which is the Super Series Final beating Bae Youn-joo and the Malaysia Open beating Wang Yihan. Wang Shixian also won the All England Open beating Eriko Hirose in the final.

2012

China has omitted Wang Shixian from its Badminton Olympics team for London Olympics 2012.^[4] Shixian was runner-up at the 2012 Super Series Final and was beaten by Li Xuerui.

2013

After a moment of distress Wang Shixian started the year very well, she was runner-up to the Victor Korea Open and she was ousts by Sung Ji-hyun but showed a great performance. At the All England she was beaten by Saina Nehwal in the quarter-final but she succeeded in taking vengeance at the Swiss Open. She then reached the final and beat Ratchanok Intanon to win the title, furthermore she climbs back up a title within a short space of 14 months. Wang Shixian competed in the Li-Ning Singapore Open but she lost in the quarter final against her compatriot Wang Yihan. Wang Shixian competed at the BWF world championship that took place in Guangzhou China as the 7 seed. Nonetheless she lost against P.V Sindhu from India (18-21; 17-21) who also downed Wang's compatriot Wang Yihan. In October, Wang Shixian played at the Yonex French Open Superseries as the 7 seed, she managed to climb her way to the final in getting rid of her opponents in 2 straight games especially the world champion Ratchanok Inthanon (21-10; 22-20). Wang showed a great performance and took every match seriously and she overcame a tough challenge by Thailand’s Porntip Buranaprasertsuk to win (21-18; 21-18) and grabbed her 1st Superseries title since the Victor Korea Open in 2012.

Personal life

Wang Shixian told the media that she liked to listen to CDs and tasting different kinds of food in her spare time. Wang shixian dates Chen long who's a badminton player.

Record Against Selected Opponents

Record against Super Series finalists, World Championships semifinalists, and Olympic quarterfinalists ^[5]

Achievements

Individual titles (13)

Year	Tournament	Opponent in final	Score
2013	French Open	Porntip Buranaprasertsuk	21–18, 21–18
2013	Swiss Open	Ratchanok Inthanon	21–16, 21–12
2012	Korea Open	Jiang Yanjiao	21–12, 21–17
2011	Macau Open	Han Li	21-14, 21-14
2011	China Masters (2)	Jiang Yanjiao	21-16, 8-5 (retired)
2011	All England	Eriko Hirose	24-22, 21-18
2011	Malaysia Open	Wang Yihan	21-18, 21-14
2010	Super Series Masters Finals	Bae Youn-joo	21-13, 21-15
2010	Asian Games	Wang Xin	21-18, 21-15
2010	Swiss Open	Jiang Yanjiao	21-15, 21-19
2010	Korea Open	Sung Ji-hyun	21-10, 25-23
2009	China Masters (1)	Wang Lin	21-14, 14-21, 21-14
2009	Malaysia Open Grand Prix Gold	Wang Xin	21-9, 21-12

     Super Series tournament

     Grand Prix Gold and Grand Prix tournament

References

External links

• (Chinese) Profile

v t e 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 ()