Cai Yun

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Cai Yun
蔡赟
Cai yun.png
Personal information
CountryChina
Born (1980-01-19) 19 January 1980 (age 45)
Suzhou, Jiangsu, China
Height1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) [1]
Weight65 kg (143 lb; 10.2 st)
HandednessRight
Men's doubles
Highest ranking1 (7 September 2006 [2] with Fu Haifeng)
BWF profile
Updated on 09:27, 26 October 2013 (UTC).
 BWF Superseries Finals tournament
  BWF Superseries Premier tournament
  BWF Superseries tournament

BWF Grand Prix (8 titles, 7 runners-up)

The BWF Grand Prix had two levels, the Grand Prix and Grand Prix Gold. It was a series of badminton tournaments sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation (BWF) and played between 2007 and 2017. The World Badminton Grand Prix was sanctioned by the International Badminton Federation from 1983 to 2006.

Men's doubles

Cai Yun
Traditional Chinese 蔡贇
Simplified Chinese 蔡赟
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin Cài Yūn
YearTournamentPartnerOpponentScoreResult
2003 Malaysia Open Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Fu Haifeng Flag of South Korea.svg Kim Dong-moon
Flag of South Korea.svg Lee Dong-soo
15–17, 11–15Silver medal icon.svgRunner-up
2003 German Open Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Fu Haifeng Flag of Indonesia.svg Eng Hian
Flag of Indonesia.svg Flandy Limpele
15–9, 8–15, 4–15Silver medal icon.svgRunner-up
2004 Swiss Open Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Fu Haifeng Flag of Indonesia.svg Luluk Hadiyanto
Flag of Indonesia.svg Alvent Yulianto
15–9, 17–14Gold medal icon.svgWinner
2004 Japan Open Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Fu Haifeng Flag of South Korea.svg Ha Tae-kwon
Flag of South Korea.svg Kim Dong-moon
7–15, 15–6, 6–15Silver medal icon.svgRunner-up
2004 Indonesia Open Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Fu Haifeng Flag of Indonesia.svg Luluk Hadiyanto
Flag of Indonesia.svg Alvent Yulianto
8–15, 11–15Silver medal icon.svgRunner-up
2005German Open Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Fu Haifeng Flag of Denmark.svg Jens Eriksen
Flag of Denmark.svg Martin Lundgaard Hansen
6–15, 15–3, 15–10Gold medal icon.svgWinner
2005 All England Open Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Fu Haifeng Flag of Denmark.svg Lars Paaske
Flag of Denmark.svg Jonas Rasmussen
15–10, 15–6Gold medal icon.svgWinner
2005Malaysia Open Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Fu Haifeng Flag of Indonesia.svg Sigit Budiarto
Flag of Indonesia.svg Candra Wijaya
11–15, 14–17Silver medal icon.svgRunner-up
2005 Hong Kong Open Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Fu Haifeng Flag of Denmark.svg Jens Eriksen
Flag of Denmark.svg Martin Lundgaard Hansen
15–13, 15–9Gold medal icon.svgWinner
2006 China Masters Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Fu Haifeng Flag of Denmark.svg Jens Eriksen
Flag of Denmark.svg Martin Lundgaard Hansen
17–21, 17–21Silver medal icon.svgRunner-up
2006 Chinese Taipei Open Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Fu Haifeng Flag of South Korea.svg Jung Jae-sung
Flag of South Korea.svg Lee Yong-dae
21–14, 21–18Gold medal icon.svgWinner
2006 Macau Open Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Fu Haifeng Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Guo Zhendong
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Zheng Bo
21–12, 9–21, 21–19Gold medal icon.svgWinner
2006 China Open Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Fu Haifeng Flag of Indonesia.svg Markis Kido
Flag of Indonesia.svg Hendra Setiawan
16–21, 16–21Silver medal icon.svgRunner-up
2008 Thailand Open Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Fu Haifeng Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Guo Zhendong
Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Xie Zhongbo
21–17, retiredGold medal icon.svgWinner
2015 Swiss Open Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg Lu Kai Flag of Malaysia.svg Goh V Shem
Flag of Malaysia.svg Tan Wee Kiong
21–19, 14–21, 21–17Gold medal icon.svgWinner
  BWF Grand Prix Gold tournament
  BWF & IBF Grand Prix tournament

Personal life

Cai Yun married synchronised swimmer Wang Na in 2010. Wang Na gave birth to a daughter in 2012, [5] and to a second child in probably late 2014. [6] [7] (Cai Yun's doubles partner-turned-coach Zhang Jun married Wang Na's teammate Hu Ni in 2006.)

References

  1. Cai and Fu: China’s new hope in men’s doubles Archived 2018-06-14 at the Wayback Machine , BadZine.net, 15 September 2006
  2. "Historical 1994-2008 top-25 world ranking data | BadmintonCentral".
  3. "BWF Launches Super Series". Badminton Australia. 15 December 2006. Archived from the original on 6 October 2007.
  4. "Yonex All England Elevated To BWF Premier Super Series Event". IBadmintonstore. Archived from the original on 2 October 2013. Retrieved 29 September 2013.
  5. Zhang Yuxiang (张宇翔) (2012-04-16). 王娜成都诞女 蔡赟当爹了 [Wang Na Gives Birth to a Daughter in Chengdu; Cai Yun Becomes a Father]. Chengdu Evening News (in Chinese). Archived from the original on 2018-10-16. Retrieved 2018-10-15.
  6. Cai Yun (2016-03-15). "Blog post". WeChat (in Chinese). mentioned he had two babies.
  7. Shunchan Nadianshi (2014-05-09). "Weibo post" (in Chinese). mentioned Wang Na was again pregnant.