Wei Yili

Wei Yili 魏轶力
Personal information
Country	China
Born	(1982-06-24) 24 June 1982 Yichang, Hubei, China
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight	68 kg (150 lb)
Handedness	Left
Women's doubles
Highest ranking	9 (October 22, 2009)
Current ranking	Retired
Medal record Women's badminton Representing  China Olympic Games 2008 Beijing Women's doubles World Championships 2006 Madrid Women's doubles 2003 Birmingham Women's doubles 2001 Seville Women's doubles 2007 Kuala Lumpur Women's doubles World Cup 2005 Yiyang Women's doubles Sudirman Cup 2007 Glasgow Mixed team 2003 Eindhoven Mixed team Uber Cup 2008 Jakarta Women's team 2004 Jakarta Women's team 2002 Guangzhou Women's team Asian Games 2002 Busan Women's team Asian Championships 2002 Bangkok Women's doubles World Junior Championships 2000 Guangzhou Mixed team 2000 Guangzhou Women's doubles 2000 Guangzhou Mixed doubles Asian Junior Championships 2000 Kyoto Girls' doubles 2000 Kyoto Mixed doubles 2000 Kyoto Girls' team 1999 Yangon Girls' team 1999 Yangon Girls' doubles 1999 Yangon Mixed doubles
BWF profile

Wei Yili (simplified Chinese: 魏轶力; traditional Chinese: 魏軼力; pinyin: Wèi Yìlì; born 24 June 1982) is a badminton player from the People's Republic of China.

Career

A women's doubles specialist, since 2001 Wei has competed on the world circuit in partnership with a variety of her fellow countrywomen, but most often with either Zhao Tingting or Zhang Yawen. A member of China's perennial world champion Uber Cup teams, in the biggest events for individual players (such as the BWF World Championships, the All-England Championships, and the Olympic Games) Wei and her partners have usually been overshadowed by China's two dominant women's doubles pairs, Gao Ling and Huang Sui, and Yang Wei and Zhang Jiewen. One exception came at the 2007 All-Englands where Wei Yili and Zhang Yawen defeated both of these teams to capture the highly coveted title. Her other women's doubles titles include the China (2001), Singapore (2001, 2007), Denmark (2002, 2004), Thailand (2003), Indonesia (2006), and French (2007) Opens.

Wei has medaled four times at the BWF World Championships without "striking gold". She earned a silver with Zhang Jiewen in 2001, a silver with Zhao Tingting in 2003, a silver with Zhang Yawen in 2006, and a bronze with Zhang Yawen in 2007. She finished fourth at the 2004 Olympics in Athens with Zhao Tingting. At the 2008 Beijing Olympics Wei and Zhang Yawen were beaten in the semifinals by yet another Chinese pair, Du Jing and Yu Yang, who went on to win the gold medal. Wei and Zhang earned a bronze medal by defeating Japan's Miyuki Maeda and Satoko Suetsuna in the playoff for third place.^[1]

In 2008, Wei retired from the national team. However, she is still playing by partnering with Gao Ling. They lost to Yang Wei and Zhang Jiewen in the Thailand Open 2009.

Achievements

Olympic Games

Women's doubles

Year	Venue	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2008	Beijing University of Technology Gymnasium, Beijing, China	Zhang Yawen	Miyuki Maeda Satoko Suetsuna	21–17, 21–10	Bronze

BWF World Championships

Women's doubles

Year	Venue	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2007	Putra Indoor Stadium, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia	Zhang Yawen	Yang Wei Zhang Jiewen	21–19, 18–21, 16–21	Bronze
2006	Palacio de Deportes de la Comunidad, Madrid, Spain	Zhang Yawen	Gao Ling Huang Sui	21–23, 9–21	Silver
2003	National Indoor Arena, Birmingham, England	Zhao Tingting	Gao Ling Huang Sui	8–15, 11–15	Silver
2001	Palacio de Deportes de San Pablo, Seville, Spain	Zhang Jiewen	Gao Ling Huang Sui	11–15, 15–17	Silver

World Cup

Women's doubles

Year	Venue	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2005	Olympic Park, Yiyang, China	Zhang Yawen	Yang Wei Zhang Jiewen	18–21, 15–21	Silver

Asian Championships

Women's doubles

Year	Venue	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2002	Bangkok, Thailand	Zhao Tingting	Gao Ling Huang Sui	5–11, 1–11	Bronze

World Junior Championships

Girls' doubles

Year	Venue	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2000	Tianhe Gymnasium, Guangzhou, China	Zhang Yawen	Zhao Tingting Li Yujia	4–7, 7–2, 7–0, 7–1	Gold

Mixed doubles

Year	Venue	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2000	Tianhe Gymnasium, Guangzhou, China	Zheng Bo	Sang Yang Zhang Yawen	3–7, 0–7, 6–8	Silver

Asian Junior Championships

Girls' doubles

Year	Venue	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2000	Nishiyama Park Gymnasium, Kyoto, Japan	Zhang Yawen	Zhao Tingting Li Yujia	15–12, 15–5	Gold
1999	National Indoor Stadium – 1, Yangon, Myanmar	Li Yujia	Xie Xingfang Zhang Jiewen	9–15, 6–15	Silver

Mixed doubles

Year	Venue	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2000	Nishiyama Park Gymnasium, Kyoto, Japan	Zheng Bo	Sang Yang Zhang Yawen	Walkover	Gold
1999	National Indoor Stadium – 1, Yangon, Myanmar	Zheng Bo	Hendri Kurniawan Saputra Enny Erlangga	12–15, 16–17	Silver

BWF Superseries

The BWF Superseries, launched on 14 December 2006 and implemented in 2007,^[2] is a series of elite badminton tournaments, sanctioned by Badminton World Federation (BWF). BWF Superseries has two level such as Superseries and Superseries Premier. A season of Superseries features twelve tournaments around the world, which introduced since 2011,^[3] with successful players invited to the Superseries Finals held at the year end.

Women's doubles

Year	Tournament	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2008	Swiss Open	Zhang Yawen	Yang Wei Zhang Jiewen	18–21, 24–22, 8–21	Runner-up
2007	Hong Kong Open	Zhang Yawen	Du Jing Yu Yang	20–22, 21–13, 17–21	Runner-up
2007	French Open	Zhang Yawen	Zhao Tingting Yu Yang	21–10, 21–15	Winner
2007	Singapore Open	Zhang Yawen	Zhao Tingting Yang Wei	10–21, 21–19, 21–18	Winner
2007	All England Open	Zhang Yawen	Yang Wei Zhang Jiewen	21–16, 8–21, 24–22	Winner

     BWF Superseries Finals tournament

     BWF Superseries Premier tournament

     BWF Superseries tournament

BWF Grand Prix

The BWF Grand Prix has two levels, the Grand Prix Gold and Grand Prix. It is a series of badminton tournaments, sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation (BWF) since 2007. The World Badminton Grand Prix has been sanctioned by the International Badminton Federation since 1983.

Women's doubles

Year	Tournament	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2009	Thailand Open	Gao Ling	Yang Wei Zhang Jiewen	24–22, 17–21, 15–21	Runner-up
2009	Philippines Open	Gao Ling	Shendy Puspa Irawati Meiliana Jauhari	21–11, 21–11	Winner
2006	Japan Open	Zhang Yawen	Gao Ling Huang Sui	15–21, 17–21	Runner-up
2006	Indonesia Open	Zhang Yawen	Yang Wei Zhang Jiewen	21–13, 21–13	Winner
2006	China Masters	Zhang Yawen	Gao Ling Huang Sui	12–21, 21–18, 14–21	Runner-up
2005	Japan Open	Zhao Tingting	Yang Wei Zhang Jiewen	12–15, 2–15	Runner-up
2005	All England Open	Zhao Tingting	Gao Ling Huang Sui	10–15, 13–15	Runner-up
2005	German Open	Zhao Tingting	Gao Ling Huang Sui	4–15, 10–15	Runner-up
2004	China Open	Zhao Tingting	Yang Wei Zhang Jiewen	14–15, 12–15	Runner-up
2004	German Open	Zhao Tingting	Zhang Dan Zhang Yawen	8–15, 12–15	Runner-up
2004	Denmark Open	Zhao Tingting	Zhang Dan Zhang Yawen	15–13, 12–15, 15–7	Winner
2004	Japan Open	Zhao Tingting	Lee Kyung-won Ra Kyung-min	6–15, 15–5, 1–15	Runner-up
2003	Japan Open	Zhao Tingting	Gao Ling Huang Sui	13–10, 6–11, 5–11	Runner-up
2003	Swiss Open	Zhao Tingting	Yang Wei Zhang Jiewen	7–11, 11–6, 4–11	Runner-up
2003	Thailand Open	Zhao Tingting	Lee Hyo-jung Yim Kyung-jin	11–9, 5–11, 11–6	Winner
2002	China Open	Zhao Tingting	Gao Ling Huang Sui	9–11, 3–11	Runner-up
2002	Denmark Open	Zhao Tingting	Mia Audina Lotte Jonathans	11–3, 6–11, 11–9	Winner
2001	China Open	Zhang Jiewen	Huang Nanyan Yang Wei	8–6, 7–3, 6–8, 8–7	Winner
2001	Singapore Open	Zhang Jiewen	Zhang Yawen Zhao Tingting	8–6, 7–3, 7–4	Winner
2001	All England Open	Zhang Jiewen	Gao Ling Huang Sui	15–10, 8–15, 9–15	Runner-up
2000	Denmark Open	Zhang Jiewen	Chen Lin Jiang Xuelian	7–15, 3–15	Runner-up

     BWF Grand Prix Gold tournament

     BWF & IBF Grand Prix tournament

IBF International

Women's doubles

Year	Tournament	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2002	French International	Zhang Jiewen	Zhang Yawen Zhao Tingting	7–1, 7–2, 5–7, 5–7, 2–7	Runner-up

References

External links

• Wei Yili at BWF.tournamentsoftware.com
• Wei Yili at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com