Pi Hongyan

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), Swiss (2001, 2005), Croatian (2003), French (2003, 2004, 2005), Dutch (2004), 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, and 2011), with a bronze medal in 2009, as well as a quarter-finalist at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.

Record against year-end Finals finalists, World Championships semi-finalists, and Olympic quarter-finalists.[3]

Players Matches Results Change Won Lost / Huang Chia-chi 3 3 0 +3 Petya Nedelcheva 10 7 3 +4 Dai Yun 1 1 0 +1 Gong Ruina 2 0 2 –2 Li Xuerui 2 0 2 –2 Lu Lan 3 2 1 +1 Wang Lin 2 1 1 0 Wang Shixian 4 1 3 –2 Wang Xin 5 0 5 –5 Wang Yihan 4 1 3 –2 Xie Xingfang 10 1 9 –8 Zhang Ning 17 3 14 –11 Zhu Lin 11 3 8 –5 Cheng Shao-chieh 5 3 2 +1 Tai Tzu-ying 2 2 0 +2 Tine Baun 12 6 6 0 Camilla Martin 5 2 3 –1 Mette Sørensen 1 1 0 +1 Tracey Hallam 6 4 2 +2

Players Matches Results Change Won Lost Petra Overzier 2 2 0 +2 Juliane Schenk 14 10 4 +6 / Xu Huaiwen 20 12 8 +4 / Wang Chen 9 2 7 –5 Yip Pui Yin 6 4 2 +2 Zhou Mi 7 3 4 –1 Saina Nehwal 7 5 2 +3 Lindaweni Fanetri 1 1 0 +1 Maria Kristin Yulianti 3 3 0 +3 Minatsu Mitani 1 1 0 +1 Nozomi Okuhara 1 1 0 +1 Wong Mew Choo 5 3 2 +1 Mia Audina 12 5 7 –2 Bae Yeon-ju 3 2 1 +1 Sung Ji-hyun 3 2 1 +1 Carolina Marín 1 1 0 +1 Porntip Buranaprasertsuk 2 2 0 +2 Ratchanok Intanon 1 1 0 +1

• Chinese diaspora in France

• Official website of Pi Hongyan