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Sung Ji Hyun

Sung Ji-hyun
TOTAL BWF World Champs 2015 Day 2 Sung Ji Hyun.jpg
Personal information
Born (1991-07-29) 29 July 1991 (age 26)
Seoul, South Korea
Height 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight 56 kg (123 lb; 8.8 st)
Years active 2009
Handedness Right
Women's singles
Career record 325 Wins , 162 Losses
Highest ranking 2 (16 March 2017)
Current ranking 9 (26 April 2018)
BWF profile
Sung Ji-hyun
Hangul 성지현
Hanja 成池鉉
Revised Romanization Seong Jihyeon
McCune–Reischauer Sŏng Chihyŏn

Sung Ji-hyun (Korean pronunciation: [sʌŋ.dʑi.ɦjʌn] or [sʌŋ] [tɕi.ɦjʌn]; born 29 July 1991) is a South Korean badminton player from Seoul. She competed at the 2010 and 2014 Asian Games.

Sung went into badminton following the path of her parents Sung Han-kook and Kim Yun-ja who both competed internationally in the 1980s.

She won the Korea Grand Prix Gold title in 2011. Unlike most South Korean badminton players Sung has focused on singles and in December 2011 she received a career high ranking of number seven in the world in that discipline.

In 2012, Sung's performance at Super Series was progressingly better, with semi final performance in Indonesia Open, Singapore Open and Japan Open. She was seeded 8th at the Olympics 2012. However, her lackluster performance in the Olympics 2012 saw her failing to make past the group match, losing to Yip Pui Yin. She defended her title Korea Grand Prix Gold title at the end of the year.

Sung won her first Super Series Premier title early in 2013 at her hometown, the Korea Open. This propelled her ranking up to world no.5, the highest of her career. Sung reached semi final at the All England, losing to the eventual winner Tine Baun in an exciting match lasted for 76 minutes, 22-24, 21-19, 19-21. She later won the 2013 Chinese Taipei Open Grand Prix Gold against Tai Tzu-ying 21–16, 21–9. Then, she reached the finals of 2013 Denmark Super Series Premier losing to Wang Yihan in 21–16, 18–21, 20–22. In 2013 Korea Open Grand Prix Gold, she went up against compatriot Bae Youn-joo and she was beaten in 3 sets 21–19, 15–21, 21–9.


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