Tai Tzu-ying (Chinese: 戴資穎; pinyin: Dài Zīyǐng; Wade–Giles: Tai Tzu-ying; born 20 June 1994) is a Taiwanese professional badminton player. She ended second after losing the final to Li Xuerui. 1 in the women's singles on December 2016, and holds the record for most weeks ranked at the top in BWF history with 148 weeks (as of 17 March 2020). The Olympic Channel recently posed the question: Is It Possible for a badminton shuttlecock to travel faster than 500 km/h? You can change your choices at any time by visiting Your Privacy Controls. [13] In November, she competed as the top seeded at the World Junior Championships in Chiba, Japan, but felt down in the quarter-finals to Sun Yu.[14]. Saina produced two superb drops and won nine of the next 12 points to narrow the equation to 12-14.
Talking about the profession of Tai parents, her father used to work as a firefighter and the director of Kaohsiung city’s badminton committee. She is 57 Kg (126 lbs) approximately in weight. She competed at the World Tour Finals. Plays Right Handed. Her net worth is estimated to be between $1-$5M.
Tai Tzu-Ying was born to firefighter Tai Nan-kai and Hu Jung on the 20th of June 1994 in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. She won a bronze medal in the women’s singles and helped the team reach the final at the East Asian Games for Chinese Taipei. She has 476K followers on Facebook. In April, she participated at the World Junior Championships in Mexico, but had to retired in the quarter-finals of 9–16 places due to injury. The BWF World Tour are divided into six levels, namely World Tour Finals, Super 1000, Super 750, Super 500, Super 300 (part of the HSBC World Tour), and the BWF Tour Super 100. Saina had lost each of her last 12 meeting against the Taiwanese supremo, and Friday wouldn’t prove to be any different. [33] In her fourth straight All England Open finals this year, she won the coveted title for the third time, thereby becoming only third female player after Xie Xingfang (2005, 2006 and 2007) and Tine Baun (2008, 2010 and 2013) to clinch three titles by contesting 4 finals at this tournament. She made it into the semifinals and successfully avenged her loss, beating Wang Shixian. To enable Verizon Media and our partners to process your personal data select 'I agree', or select 'Manage settings' for more information and to manage your choices. Tokyo Olympics organizers on Tuesday said they were encouraged by a gymnastics meet over the weekend and that they are now ready to hold test events early next year. As per wiki-bio pages, it has been estimated that Tai Tzu- Ying has a net worth of $1 Million – $5 Million till today. She was the runner- up after losing against the famous player named “Chen Yufei ” in two straight games. Later, she defeated the famous and popular player named “Chen Yufei” in the quarterfinals when she participated in the Malaysian Master in 2018. In the 2013 BWF Super Series Masters Finals, she defeated Sung Ji-hyun and Porntip Buranaprasertsuk but lost to Wang Shixian. Former Rugby Australia boss Raelene Castle has been appointed as the next CEO of Sport NZ, replacing Peter Miskimmin, who will be stepping down after 11 years in the role. [25][26] In July, she was unable to defend her title at the Indonesia Open, after defeated in the semi-finals to Akane Yamaguchi. However, a change to the Badminton World Federation's competition schedule and rankings system that year saw Tai overtaken briefly, before she returned to the summit on 3 May following victory in the Asia Championships for a second consecutive year.
Tai Tzu Ying recalls her famous wins in Malaysia and Singapore last year.
1, she has won over 24 international titles, which includes eleven Superseries titles. Tai’s height is 1.62 m and 162 cm tall. At the 2014 Asian Games, she represented her country and won Chinese Taipei’s first badminton bronze medal. Although she lost the final game of 2018 French Open, she still won 9,350 points, by deleted the 2017 French Open 9,200 points, her points comes to 101,667 eventually, becomes the highest points holder in the women's singles category history. In August 2013, she was recruited by the team Banga Beats to play for them in the Indian Badminton League. Prior to Friday's clash, the Indian had lost 12 games on a trot versus the Taiwan shuttler. WOMEN'S SINGLES . Furthermore, she was the youngest player to compete in the first division. [4], Tai career began when she was in elementary school, affected by his father who was a firefighter and the director of Kaohsiung city's badminton committee. In 2016 though, Tai Tzu-Ying was well and truly primed for a medal, before PV Sindhu rained down on her in the pre-quarterfinals, an exit that jolted arguably the world’s most stylish player out of her easygoing play. Again, it seemed to bring an instant response, as the 2012 London Olympics bronze medallist opened up an 8-3 lead in the second game – only for Tai Tzu to storm away with the next eight points to lead 11-8 at the break. The Kaohsiung shuttler first reached the peak of the world rankings on 1 December 2016, and wasn't budged off the top until the week of 18 April 2018, for a reign of 72 weeks as world number one. [39], During the period of 2016 Summer Olympics, Yonex provided unfit shoes to non-contract Tai. She is fully concentrated and focused on her career rather than to date someone and make a boyfriend. Age 26 20/06/1994 . [8], In 2011, Tai made good progress by defeating the top ranked player. 1 . In 2018, Tai starting the season participated in the Malaysian Master in which she defeated Chen Yufei in the quarter final and Carolina Marín in a thrilling semi final, coming from a game down, but lost to Ratchanok Intanon in final. But it wasn't until 2011 when the then-17-year-old made her first breakthrough, winning the US Open Grand Prix Gold championship for her first international title, something the shuttler ranks as her most memorable sporting achievement.
When India’s original badminton queen, Saina Nehwal, was struggling to come to grips with world number one Tai Tzu Ying during her quarter-final exit at the All England Championships on Friday, 8 March, she may have hoped for encouraging words from the stands from fellow Indian shuttler and husband Parupalli Kashyap. The 2014 CWG champion was quite the hard taskmaster during Saina’s quarter-final defeat to world No. info), born 17 March 1990) is an Indian professional badminton singles player. In 2014, she became the first Chinese Taipei athlete to win the season-ending Finals championship, a feat she repeated with her victories at the All-England Open (2017), Asia Championships (2017), and Asian Games (2018).
Since then, Tai has been back at the top twice more, and is currently (9 December 2019) still the world number one. In 2019, she reached the quarterfinal stage of Malaysia Masters, losing to the same opponent of last year and arch-rival Ratchanok Intanon in straight games.
She is not dating anyone currently.