Petya Nedelcheva is a Bulgarian badminton player. She was born in Stara Zagora, Bulgaria. At the Bulgarian National Badminton Championships she won more than 20 titles.
Tine Baun is a Danish former badminton player. Most notably, she won the All England Open Badminton Championships women's singles title three times in 2008, 2010, and 2013 – the last of these being her final tournament before retirement.
Yao Jie is a Chinese-born badminton player who now resides in the Netherlands.
Wang Chen is a Chinese badminton player who later represented Hong Kong.
Datin Wong Mew Choo is a Malaysian former badminton singles player.
Eriko Hirose is a badminton player from Japan.
Saina Nehwal is an Indian professional badminton player. A former world no. 1, she has won 24 international titles, which includes ten Superseries titles. Although she reached the world's 2nd in 2009, it was only in 2015 that she was able to attain the world no. 1 ranking, thereby becoming the only female player from India and thereafter the second Indian player – after Prakash Padukone – to achieve this feat. She has represented India three times in the Olympics, winning a bronze medal in her second appearance at London 2012.
Wang Shixian is a retired Chinese professional badminton player. She is a former World No. 1 in women's singles.
Bae Yeon-ju is a retired international badminton player from South Korea.
Carolina María Marín Martín is a Spanish badminton player. She is an Olympic Champion, three-time World Champion, eight-time European Champion, and the former World's No. 1 in BWF rankings for the women's singles discipline, holding the World No. 1 title for 66 weeks. She has become the World Champion in the women's singles three times, thereby becoming the second women’s singles player after Han Aiping and the only non-Asian player to win the title three times. Marín is the only player in history to win seven gold medals in a single category of a continental championship, having consecutively won the European Championships title since 2014. She also won the Olympics gold medal in women's singles at the 2016 Rio Olympics, thereby becoming the only non-Asian female player to win a gold medal at the Olympics.
Pusarla Venkata Sindhu is an Indian badminton player. Considered one of India's most successful sportspersons, Sindhu has won medals at various tournaments such as the Olympics and on the BWF circuit, including a gold at the 2019 World Championships. She is the first and only Indian to become the badminton world champion and only the second individual athlete from India to win two consecutive medals at the Olympic Games. She rose to a career-high world ranking of no. 2 in April 2017.
Ratchanok Intanon is a Thai badminton player who became the first Thai to become No.1 in women's singles. She is known for her relaxed hitting motion and light footwork, which has been described as 'balletic' by commentators such as Gillian Clark. She became the world champion in women's singles in 2013.
Tai Tzu-ying is a Taiwanese badminton player. At the age of 22, she achieved world no.1 in the BWF women's singles ranking in December 2016, and has held that title for 214 weeks, the longest in BWF history. Tai was the women's singles silver medalist in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and the 2021 BWF World Championships. She was gold medalist in the 2017 Summer Universiade and the 2018 Asian Games. She was the champion of BWF Super Series Finals/BWF World Tour Finals a record four times. She was thrice the champion of the All England Open, and of the Asian Championships.
Li Xuerui is a retired Chinese professional badminton player. She is one of the most successful players of her time. She was a gold medalist at 2012 London Olympics in the women's singles event and was the silver medalists in the 2013 and 2014 World Championships. Li Xuerui won fourteen Superseries titles, confirming her status as China's second most successful player after Wang Yihan. She reached a career high of no. 1 in the women's singles for 124 weeks. Li graduated with a BA from Huaqiao University.
Sung Ji-hyun is a South Korean badminton player from Seoul. She is an Asian Championship gold medalist, a two-time Summer Universiade gold medalist, and a World Championship bronze medalist. She was also part of South Korean teams that won the 2010 Uber Cup, 2017 Sudirman Cup, as well the team event at the 2013 and 2015 Summer Universiade. She competed at the 2010, 2014 and 2018 Asian Games, and at the 2012 and 2016 Summer Olympics. Sung is married to compatriot men's singles player, Son Wan-ho. She coaches An Se-young.
Nozomi Okuhara is a Japanese badminton player. A former World's number 1 in the BWF rankings for the women's singles, she is well known for her speed, agility and endurance. She won a bronze at the 2016 Summer Olympics, and gold medal at the 2017 World Championships.
Akane Yamaguchi is a Japanese badminton player. She was a two-time world champion who won gold medals in the women's singles at the 2021 and 2022 World Championships. She was a member of the winning Japanese team at the Asian Junior Championships in 2012 and won the World Junior Championships in 2013 and 2014, the Asian Junior Championships in 2014, and the Asian Championships in 2019.
Tang Jinhua is a Chinese retired badminton player who competed at the highest level of badminton tournaments during the second decade of the 2000s, winning numerous women's doubles and occasional mixed doubles events with a variety of partners. She is a graduate of Hunan University.
The 2013 China Open is a top level badminton competition which took place on November 12–17, 2013 in Shanghai, China. It was the eleventh BWF Super Series competition on the 2013 BWF Super Series schedule. The total purse for the event is $450,000. A qualification round was held for three of the five disciplines.
The 2014 China Open will be the eleventh super series tournament of the 2014 BWF Super Series. The tournament will be contested in Fuzhou, China from November 11–16, 2014 with a total purse of $700,000. A qualification will occur to fill four places in all five disciplines of the main draws. For the first time in the history of this super series tournament, two non-Chinese players won men's and women's singles titles both from India.
