Yip Pui Yin

Personal information

Birth name

葉姵延

Country

Hong Kong

Born

6 August 1987
Hong Kong

Height

164 cm (5 ft 5 in)

Weight

59 kg (130 lb)

Handedness

Right

Coach

Wang Chen

Women's Singles

Current ranking

26 (19 March 2015)

Medal record

Women's Badminton
Asian Games
	2006 Doha	Singles
	2010 Guangzhou	Singles
Badminton Asia Championships
	2008 Johor Bahru	Singles
East Asian Games
	2009 Hong Kong	Singles
	2009 Hong Kong	Team
	2013 Tianjin	Team

BWF profile

This is a Chinese name; the family name is Yip.

Yip Pui Yin (Chinese: 葉姵延; pinyin: Yè Pèiyán; Jyutping: jip⁶ bui⁶ jin⁴; born 6 August 1987) is a female badminton player from Hong Kong.

Career

2005

She played at the 2005 World Badminton Championships in Anaheim. In the women's singles event she reached the third round after beating Laura Molina of Spain and Kanako Yonekura (11th seed) in round one and round two respectively. In the third round she was beaten by the 1st seed and reigning world champion Zhang Ning of China.

2006

She won the silver medal in the 2006 Asian Games after losing to fellow Hong Kong player Wang Chen in the final.

2007

In 2007 she played at the World Championships and was defeated in the third round by Zhu Lin, of China, 9-21, 21-16, 14-21.

2008

Yip Pui Yin made her first appearance at the Olympics.

2009

She won the gold medal in the 2009 East Asian games when her opponent Zhou Mi retired halfway through the deciding set. She won 15-21, 21-13, 17-10*.

2012

At the 2012 London Olympics, Yip claimed the scalp of eighth seed Sung Ji-hyun, of South Korea, in the group stage. Then Yip Pui-yin goes through to the final eight of the women's singles in badminton after she beat France's 16th seed Pi Hongyan by two games to one, winning 13-21, 21-13, 21-16. Yip is set to face China's Li Xuerui ^[1] Her performance equalled the best performance by a Hong Kong shuttler at the Olympic Games.^[2]

Career achievements

Outcome	Year	Championship	Opponent	Score
Semifinalist	2007	China Masters Super Series	Xie Xingfang	6–21, 16–21
Winner	2010	Malaysia Open Grand Prix Gold	Zhou Mi
Semifinalist	2010	BWF Super Series Masters Finals	Wang Shixian	15–21, 14–21
Semifinalist	2011	India Super Series	Porntip Buranaprasertsuk	13–21, 8–21
Semifinalist	2012	Chinese Taipei Open Grand Prix Gold	Tai Tzu-Ying	21–18, 10–21, 9–21
Semifinalist	2013	Indonesia Super Series Premier	Li Xuerui	21–17, 11–21, 11–21

Record against selected opponents

Includes results against Olympic quarterfinals, Worlds semifinalists, and Super Series finalists, as well as all Olympic opponents.^[3]

Petya Nedelcheva 2–1
Jiang Yanjiao 0–5
Li Xuerui 0–9
Liu Xin 0–3
Lu Lan 1–3
Wang Lin 3–6
Wang Shixian 0–10
Wang Xin 0–2
Wang Yihan 3–6
Xie Xingfang 1–3
Zhang Ning 1–4
Zhu Jingjing 1–0
Zhu Lin 2–3
Cheng Shao-chieh 3–1
Huang Chia-chi 1–0
Tai Tzu-ying 0–8
Tine Baun 1–4
Tracey Hallam 2–1
Pi Hongyan 2–4
Juliane Schenk 3–5
Xu Huaiwen 1–1
Zhou Mi 1–2
Saina Nehwal 2–6
P.V. Sindhu 0–1
Lindaweni Fanetri 1–1
Maria Kristin Yulianti 1–1
Eriko Hirose 3–4
Sayaka Sato 1–3
Minatsu Mitani 1–2
Nozomi Okuhara 0–1
Akane Yamaguchi 0–2
Sung Ji-hyun 3–6
Bae Youn-joo 2–3
Mia Audina 0–1
Sara Kværnø 1–0
Carolina Marín 0–2
Porntip Buranaprasertsuk 2–4
Ratchanok Inthanon 3–10

References

↑ "HK shuttler Yip into final 8". The Standard. 1 August 2012.
↑ "Yip equals best HK performance by reaching quarters". South China Morning Post. 2 August 2012.
↑ http://www.tournamentsoftware.com/profile/selectheadtohead.aspx?id=B368A130-10A6-4C37-886A-4EF8AE4D6E78

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