Pi Hongyan

Pi Hongyan
Personal information
Birth name 皮红艳
Country  France
Born (1979-01-25) January 25, 1979
China Chongqing
Handedness Right
Women Singles
Highest ranking 4 (11 March 2010[1])
Current ranking Retired (in 2012[2])
Medal record
Competitor for  France
Women's badminton
World Championships
2009 Hyderabad Singles
European Championships
2004 Geneva Singles
2008 Herning Singles
2010 Manchester Singles
BWF profile
This is a Chinese name; the family name is Pi.

Pi Hongyan (simplified Chinese: 皮红艳; traditional Chinese: 皮紅艷; pinyin: Pí Hóngyàn) (born 25 January 1979 in Chongqing, China) is a female badminton player competing for France.

Career

Pi Hongyan is one of a number of talented Chinese-born badminton players who have emigrated from China, in part, because of the intense competition to gain positions on its national team, and because of the elite status within the sport that such a player is likely to hold in other badminton playing countries. Her titles include women's singles at the U.S. (1999), German (2001, 2002), Bitburger (2001, 2002), Portugal (2001, 2003), Croatian (2004), French (2003, 2004, 2005), Dutch (2004), Swiss (2005), Denmark (2005), Singapore (2006) and India (2009) Opens. At the biennial European Championships she was a silver medalist in 2004 and a bronze medalist in 2008 and 2010. She was runner-up to China's Xie Xingfang at the prestigious All-England Championships in 2007. Pi has been at least a quarter-finalist in each of the last six consecutive BWF World Championships (2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011) with a bronze medal in 2009, as well as a quarter-finalist at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.

See also

References

  1. ↑ ""BWF World Rankings: Ranking week: 3/11/2010". Badminton World Federation. Retrieved 25 February 2016.
  2. ↑ "Another good-bye! French star Pi Hongyan retired from badminton and got a nice "salute" at today's semi-final in Paris.". Twitter. Badminton Europe. Retrieved 25 February 2016.

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