Xing Aiying

Xing Aiying
Personal information
Birth name 邢爱英
Country  Singapore
Born (1989-08-02) 2 August 1989
Jiangsu, China
Residence Singapore City, Singapore
Height 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Weight 55 kg (121 lb)
Handedness Right
Women's singles
Highest ranking 31 (8 October 2009)
Current ranking 41 (21 February 2013)
Medal record
Women's badminton
Representing  Singapore
Asian Games
2006 DohaWomen's team
Southeast Asian Games
2007 Nakhon Ratchasima Women's team
2009 Vientiane Women's team
2011 Jakarta Women's team
World Junior Championships
2007 Waitakere City Mixed team
BWF profile

Xing Aiying (simplified Chinese: 邢爱英; traditional Chinese: 邢愛英; pinyin: Xìng Àiyīng; born 2 August 1989) is a Chinese-born Singaporean badminton player who competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics.[1]

Career

Xing was born in Jiangsu, China, and she is a former Nanjing city age-group championships in 1998.[2][3] She came to Singapore in 2003 and became the Chinese younger player to join the Singapore Badminton Association (SBA). She started her debut in international tournament at the 2003 Thailand King's Cup.[3][4] In 2004, she was the women's doubles runner-up at the Croatian International tournament, and won her first international title at the World Badminton Grand Prix event U.S. Open in the singles event at the age of 15.[5][6]

In 2005, she reached the final round in the women's singles event at the Bitburger Open and Cheers Asian Satelite tournaments. In Ballarat International, she won the women's doubles event and the runner-up in singles event. In 2006, she competed in the women's team event at the Uber Cup and Doha Asian Games. The team reached the quarter-final at the Uber Cup, and won the bronze medal at the Asian Games.[5] She also competed at the Melbourne Commonwealth Games in the mixed team and singles event, and lost to Malaysian players Wong Mew Choo in the quarter-final.[7] At the 2006 New Zealand Open, she was seeded fourth at that tournament, and unexpected lost in the final round to Huang Chia-chi of Australia in the rubber game.[8] In 2007, she won her first national title in the women's singles event, and repeat her success in 2013.[5][9] She also won the mixed team bronze at the World Junior Championships and women's team silver at the SEA Games. In 2008, she was the runner-up at the Vietnam Open and semi-finalist in Thailand Open.[5] Xing qualified for the women's singles at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, after she was ranked thirty-sixth in the world, and awarded an entry as one of the top 38 seeded players by the Badminton World Federation.[10] She lost the first preliminary round match to Belarus' Olga Konon, with a score of 19–21 and 12–21.[11][12][13]

In 2009, she was the quarter-finalist at the Malaysia Grand Prix Gold, and also won the women's team bronze at the SEA Games.[4][5] In 2010, she helps the Singapore team to reach the semi-final round in the mixed team event at the Delhi Commonwealth Games. At the bronze medal match against England, she won the match to Elizabeth Cann, but the team went down 1-3 and missed out on the bronze.[14] In 2011 and 2012, she won the women's singles title at the Singapore International Series tournament. She also won the bronze medal at the 2011 SEA Games in the women's team event.[5] In 2012, she also the runner-up in the national championships, and was the semi-finalist at the Malaysia Grand Prix Gold and Singapore Open Superseries tournament. In 2013, Xing reached the quarter-final round at the U.S. Open, and at the same year, she resigned from the SBA.[5][15] Together with the former Singaporean national player Mok Jing Qiong, the duo crowned champion at the 2014 Singapore National Games.[16]

Achievements

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. The World Badminton Grand Prix sanctioned by International Badminton Federation (IBF) since 1983.

Women's singles

Year Tournament Opponent Score Result
2008 Vietnam Open Singapore Zhang Beiwen 11–21, 21–19, 22–20 1st, gold medalist(s) Winner
2006 New Zealand Open Australia Huang Chia-chi 18–21, 24–22, 15–21 2nd, silver medalist(s) Runner-up
2005 Bitburger Open Germany Xu Huaiwen 3–11, 2–11 2nd, silver medalist(s) Runner-up
2004 U.S. Open United States Lili Zhou 9–11, 11–6, 11–2 1st, gold medalist(s) Winner

BWF International Challenge/Series

Women's singles

Year Tournament Opponent Score Result
2012 Singapore International Singapore Fu Mingtian 21–10, 21–8 1st, gold medalist(s) Winner
2011 Singapore International Singapore Gu Juan 21–10, 21–12 1st, gold medalist(s) Winner
2005 Cheers Asian Satellite Singapore Li Li 7–11, 11–9, 5–11 2nd, silver medalist(s) Runner-up

Women's doubles

Year Tournament Partner Opponent Score Result
2004 Croatian International Singapore Shinta Mulia Sari Singapore Jiang Yanmei
Singapore Li Yujia		 4–15, 1–15 2nd, silver medalist(s) Runner-up
     BWF International Challenge tournament
     BWF International Series tournament

References

  1. ↑ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill. "Xing Aiying". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 23 February 2013.
  2. ↑ "中国的体育精英为何叛国？" (in Chinese). 山东鲁能俱乐部. Retrieved 5 September 2017.
  3. 1 2 "Xing Aiying: Singaporean Womens Singles Badminton Player". Badminton Central. Retrieved 5 September 2017.
  4. 1 2 "Causing a racket". Singtel. Retrieved 5 September 2017.
  5. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Xing Aiying 邢爱英". Helio.sg. Retrieved 5 September 2017.
  6. ↑ "Singapore Book of Records Sports". Singapore Book of Records. Retrieved 5 September 2017.
  7. ↑ "Biography: Xing Aiying". Melbourne 2006. Retrieved 5 September 2017.
  8. ↑ "Champion Chai Chi - Equinox results". Badminton Oceania. Retrieved 5 September 2017.
  9. ↑ "Cheers National Badminton Championships 2007: Ronald Susilo and Xing Aiying Emerge Victorious!". Youth.sg. Retrieved 5 September 2017.
  10. ↑ Singh, Patwant (1 August 2008). "Olympics: Shuttler Susilo confident of 1st-round tie with Malaysia's Lee". Channel News Asia. Retrieved 23 February 2013.
  11. ↑ "Women's Singles Round of 64". NBC Olympics. Retrieved 23 February 2013.
  12. ↑ "Germany's Schenk squanders match point in opening badminton". Xinhua News Agency. China Daily. 10 August 2008. Retrieved 23 February 2013.
  13. ↑ "Chinese badminton golden couple enjoy wins at Olympics". Xinhua News Agency. SINA Online. 11 August 2008. Retrieved 23 February 2013.
  14. ↑ "Commonwealth Games Badminton: Singapore miss out on bronze after falling 1-3 to England in mixed team". Red Sports. Retrieved 5 September 2017.
  15. ↑ "Singapore Badminton Association CEO Ronnie Lim resigns". The Straits Times. Retrieved 5 September 2017.
  16. ↑ "Former National Shuttlers Mok and Xing Taste Victory in SNG". Wayback Machine. Archived from the original on 29 November 2014. Retrieved 5 September 2017.
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