Huaiwen Xu

Xu Huaiwen
Personal information
Birth name	徐懷雯
Country	Germany
Born	(1975-08-02) August 2, 1975 (age 42) Guiyang, Guizhou
Handedness	Right
Event	Women's singles
Medal record Representing  Germany Women's badminton World Championships 2005 Anaheim Women's singles 2006 Madrid Women's singles European Championships 2006 Den Bosch Women's singles 2008 Herning Women's singles European Women's Team Championships 2008 Almere Women's team 2006 Thessalonica Women's team

Xu Huaiwen (simplified Chinese: 徐怀雯; traditional Chinese: 徐懷雯; pinyin: Xú Huáiwén; born August 2, 1975) is a badminton player from Germany. She was born in Guiyang, Guizhou, People's Republic of China. She decided to play for Germany because the Chinese thought that she was too short to play professional world badminton.

Xu was among the most successful of a number of Chinese-born female players who emigrated from their badminton-rich homeland, in part, for a better opportunity to play in the world's biggest events. Beginning in 2003 when she won a spate of middle tier open tournaments in Europe, Xu went on to become one of the more consistent performers on the international circuit. She was a women's singles bronze medalist twice at the BWF World Championships (2005 and 2006) and won European Championships in 2006 and 2008 over Mia Audina and Tine Rasmussen respectively in the finals. At the 2008 Beijing Olympics Xu was eliminated in a close quarterfinal match by China's Xie Xingfang, the world's number one ranked player.

Among Xu's more than twenty national and international singles titles are the Scottish (2003), Polish (2003), Dutch (2005), and Swiss (2006) Opens, the Copenhagen Masters (2007), and five consecutive (2004–2008) German National Championships. Notably, she earned all of these titles after turning 27, an age at which world level singles players often feel that their best years are behind them.

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