Tai Tzu-ying
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Tai Tzu-ying at the 2016 Chinese Taipei Open.
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 Taiwan
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| Born |
20 June 1994 Kaohsiung, Taiwan |
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| Height | 1.63 m (5 ft 4 in) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 55 kg (121 lb; 8.7 st) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Years active | 2009 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Handedness | Right | ||||||||||||||||||
| Coach | Jiang-Chen Lai | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Highest ranking | 1 (December 1, 2016) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Current ranking | 1 (December 15, 2016) | ||||||||||||||||||
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Tai Tzu-ying (traditional Chinese: 戴資穎; simplified Chinese: 戴资颖; pinyin: Dài Zīyǐng; Wade–Giles: Tai Tzu-ying; born on 20 June 1994) is a female badminton player from Taiwan. In 2011, she won the title of Taiwanese ranking competition when she was only 16 years and 6 months old, becoming the youngest No. 1 in Taiwan badminton history. She became world No. 1 in Women's Singles in December 2016.
Tai was the finalist at the 2010 Singapore Super Series, Series. She won her first international title at the 2011 US Open Grand Prix Gold at the age of 17. She won her biggest titles at the Superseries Finals in 2014 and 2016, and won the Superseries Premiere event, Indonesia Open in 2016. She also won the Hong Kong Super Series twice, in 2014 and 2016.
Tai’s father is a firefighter and the director of Kaohsiung city’s badminton committee. His favorite activity in spare time is playing badminton. Tai started playing badminton as third grader in elementary school. She won the title in the nationwide second division game, and got the access to participate in the first division games. Furthermore, she was the youngest player to compete in the first division.
In 2009, Tai, aged 15, began to compete in international games. She was the runner-up in her first game, Vietnam Open. In July, she represented Kaohsiung City to play in the National Games and went into the quarter final. In the same month, she signed up for Asian Youth Badminton Tournament in Malaysia and became the runner-up. In December, Tai competed at the East Asian Games for Chinese Taipei and won one silver and one bronze medal.
In 2012, she won her first ever Super Series title in Japan Open and made a history as the youngest player who won Super Series title (Currently the third youngest player, after Ratchanok Intanon won the India Open in 2013, and Akane Yamaguchi won the Japan Open 2013).
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