Wang Chen (badminton)

Wang married mainland Chinese badminton player Zheng Yumin in 2002.[2][3] Their son Longlong (龍龍) was born in 2012.[4]

In 1994, Wang won the gold medal at the World Junior Championships in the girl's singles.

In 1996, she won the women's singles title at the Thailand Open. She was also on the losing national team against a strong Indonesian squad in Uber Cup that year.

In 1997, she back-to-back won the Thailand Open women's singles title.

In 2002, she won the Chinese Taipei Open.

In 2003, she won a gold medal at the Asian Championships.

In 2004, Wang played badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics. In women's singles, she defeated Lorena Blanco of Peru and Yao Jie of the Netherlands in the first two rounds. In the quarterfinals, Wang lost to Zhang Ning of the People's Republic of China 9–11, 11–6, 11–7.

In 2005, she won the Indonesia Open and Asian Championships.

In 2006, she won the gold medal at the Asian Games and for the third times clinched the Asian Championships women's singles title.

In 2007, she played at the World Championships and won the silver medal. She was defeated in the final by Zhu Lin, of China, 8–21, 12–21

Wang competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics. She was seeded fourth going into the competition. She defeated Eva Sládeková of Slovakia, 21–7, 21–7 to advance to the third round. There she lost to Saina Nehwal of India, 19–21, 21–11, 11–21.

She won the 2008 Hong Kong Super Series.

Record against year-end Finals finalists, World Championships semi-finalists, and Olympic quarter-finalists.[5]

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

Players Matches Results Change Won Lost Tracey Hallam 3 2 1 +1 Pi Hongyan 9 7 2 +5 Petra Overzier 2 1 1 0 Juliane Schenk 4 4 0 +4 / Xu Huaiwen 4 3 1 +2 Yip Pui Yin 1 1 0 +1 / Zhou Mi 11 4 7 –3 Saina Nehwal 5 4 1 +3 Susi Susanti 4 1 3 –2 Maria Kristin Yulianti 1 1 0 +1 Yasuko Mizui 3 3 0 +3 Wong Mew Choo 5 3 2 +1 / Mia Audina 10 5 5 0 Bang Soo-hyun 1 0 1 –1 Kim Ji-hyun 3 2 1 +1 Lim Xiaoqing 1 0 1 –1 Porntip Buranaprasertsuk 1 1 0 +1

• Wang Chen at BWF.tournamentsoftware.com