Maria Kristin Yulianti
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Maria Kristin Yulianti in 2010
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| Country |
 Indonesia
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June 25, 1985 Tuban, East Java, Indonesia |
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| Height | 1.67 m (5 ft 6 in) | |||||||||
| Handedness | Right | |||||||||
| Coach | Marleve Mainaky | |||||||||
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| Highest ranking | 11 | |||||||||
| Current ranking | Retired | |||||||||
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Maria Kristin Yulianti (born June 25, 1985) is a badminton player from Indonesia. She won a bronze medal in women's singles at the 2008 Olympics.
Yulianti played in some satellite competitions and won the Malaysian tournament.
Yulianti played in more satellite tournaments and won three: the Surabaya Satellite, the Jakarta Satellite, and the Asian Satellite Badminton Tournament.
Yulianti started to play tougher competitions but still played in satellite tournaments. She played in the Luxembourg Open and was the runner-up. Then she followed with the Bitburger Open and also achieved runner-up, beaten by Xu Huaiwen of Germany in the final, but she scored an upset by beating the seeded player Pi Hongyan of France in the quarterfinal. She played in the Singapore Satellite tournament and claimed the title. She became the most successful player on the national team.
This year, Yulianti was the dominant player on her team. She played in the BWF World Championships as the 15th seed, her highest rank in 2007. She was beaten in the third round by the world number one, Zhang Ning of China. Then, she reached her first quarterfinal of the Super Series tournament in Indonesia, by beating Lu Lan of China in a rubber set. She was stopped by Petya Nedelcheva of Bulgaria in straight sets. Then, she played a super series tournaments and lost to another high-ranked player. In December, she won the Southeast Asian Games in Thailand over fellow countrywoman Adriyanti Firdasari.
She competed in a few super series tournaments such as All England and the Swiss Open but was stopped in the first round in each. She entered the Uber Cup team and won against the second-seeded country, Japan, by a score of 4–1. While she was defeated by the Japanese, Eriko Hirose, 21–9, 20–22, 20–22, her teammates secured the team victory against the other Japanese players. They reached the final for the first time in 14 years by beating Hong Kong in the quarterfinal and Germany in the semifinal. They were defeated in the final by China, 0–3.
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