Gu Juan

Gu Juan
Personal information
Birth name	顾娟
Country	Singapore
Born	(1990-05-26) 26 May 1990 Dafeng, Jiangsu, China
Height	1.60 m (5 ft 3 in)
Weight	56 kg (123 lb)
Coach	Luan Jin
Women's Singles
Highest ranking	15 (20 December 2012)
Medal record Women's badminton Representing  Singapore Southeast Asian Games 2007 Nakhon Ratchasima Women's team 2011 Jakarta Women's team World Junior Championships 2007 Waitakere City Girls singles 2007 Waitakere City Mixed team Asian Junior Championships 2007 Kuala Lumpur Girls' singles
BWF profile

Gu Juan (Chinese: 顾娟;born 26 May 1990 in Dafeng, Yancheng, Jiangsu, China) is a China born Singaporean badminton player.^[1]

Career

Gu followed her father to Nanjing when she was six years old. Due to poor body constitution, her father send her to a badminton school to build up her body. Gu represented Nanjing and won a competition. She was subsequently invited to join the Beijing badminton team but withdrew after not being used to the weather conditions. Gu then further represented Nanjing in the Jiangsu sports competition and won the girls doubles and mixed doubles. Former Jiangsu badminton coach, representing the Singapore Badminton Association, scouted her and invited her to Singapore.^[2]

Gu came to Singapore in 2003 under the Foreign Sports Talent Scheme and became a Singapore citizen in June 2007. She left the Singapore national team to return to Shanghai for studies a year later. However, 16 months later, after the persuasion of the Singapore national badminton team's head coach, she re-joined the national team.^[3] Gu was part of the Singapore women's team who won the silver medal at the 2007 Southeast Asian Games held in Thailand. In 2012, Gu was selected as Singapore's only Olympic women's singles player for the 2012 Summer Olympic Games by the Singapore Badminton Association, ahead of Southeast Asian Games women's singles champion Fu Mingtian.^[4]

Achievements

BWF World Junior Championships

Girls' Singles

Year	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result
2007	Waitakere Trusts Stadium, Waitakere City, New Zealand	Wang Lin	14–21, 14–21	Bronze

Asia Junior Championships

Girls' Singles

Year	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result
2007	Stadium Juara, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	Liu Xin	7–21, 21–15, 16–21	Silver

BWF Grand Prix

The BWF Grand Prix has two levels: Grand Prix and Grand Prix Gold. It is a series of badminton tournaments, sanctioned by Badminton World Federation (BWF) since 2007.

Women's Singles

Year	Tournament	Opponent	Score	Result
2013	Dutch Open	Busanan Ongbumrungpan	12–21, 12–21	Runner-up
2013	Malaysia Masters	Pusarla Venkata Sindhu	17–21, 21–17, 19–21	Runner-up

     BWF Grand Prix Gold tournament

     BWF Grand Prix tournament

BWF International Challenge/Series

Women's Singles

Year	Tournament	Opponent	Score	Result
2011	Singapore International	Xing Aiying	10–21, 12–21	Runner-up
2011	New Zealand International	Sayaka Sato	14–21, 13–21	Runner-up
2010	Vietnam International	Lee Hyun-jin	19–21, 15–21	Runner-up
2011	Banuinvest International	Hitomi Oka	23–25, 21–15, 4–21	Runner-up
2007	Waikato International	Fu Mingtian	14–21, 17–21	Runner-up

Women's Doubles

Year	Tournament	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2007	Croatian International	Zhang Beiwen	Cai Jiani Guo Xin	21–15, 6–21, 10–21	Runner-up

     BWF International Challenge tournament

     BWF International Series tournament

Record Against Selected Opponents

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

References