Yao Jie

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Yao Jie (Template:Lang-zh; born 10 April 1977<ref>sports-reference.com</ref>) is a Chinese-born badminton player who now resides in the Netherlands.

Yao is one of a number of badminton players who have emigrated from China, in part, because the depth of badminton talent in that country has made it difficult for them to be selected for major international competitions. Prior to her move to the Netherlands, she won the BWF World Junior Championships in girls' doubles with Liu Lu in 1994 at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and helped the Chinese national women's team clinch a gold medal at the 1997 East Asian Games.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> But her passion was for the ladies singles event.

Since moving to the Netherlands Yao Jie has won the women's singles event 4 times at the Dutch Open (2003, 2008, 2009 & 2011), she won the Thailand Open twice (2004, 2005), and the biennial European Championships once (2002), and a high number of 11 Dutch National Championships. Nine times the Dutch crown in singles and twice in doubles. She was also a 3-times European bronze medalist in the 2004, 2006 European Badminton Championships and 2012 European Badminton Championships. She won the Velo Dutch International twice, in 2001 beating Mia Audina 9–11, 11–1, 13–10 and in 2012 beating Malaysian Sonia Su Ya Cheah 19–21, 21–9, 21–12 in the final. She also won the Italian International in 2011 beating Bulgarian Petya Nedelcheva in the final 21–11, 21–17 and won the Finnish International Open in 2012 beating Canadian Michelle Li 22–20, 21–19. Yao Jie was a runner-up to Zhang Ning at the China Open in 2006, runner-up to Juliane Schenk of Germany at the 2010 Dutch Open, runner-up to Li Xuerui of China at the 2011 Bitburger Open Grand Prix Gold and runner-up to Juliane Schenk at the 2012 Bitburger Open Grand Prix Gold.

Her performances at 2004 Olympic Games and at recent BWF World Championships have not been among her strongest. She was eliminated in the round of 16 at the Athens Games by Hong Kong's Wang Chen and has proceeded no farther than that round in any of her World Championship appearances. A big disappointment was her non-participation at the 2008 Olympic Games in her native China, despite being qualified by the international norm, but not by the stricter Dutch qualifying norm. In January 2009 Yao Jie married Dutch player Eric Pang.

In March 2011 Yao Jie was part of the Dutch Fource team, together with Dutch top players Dicky Palyama, Judith Meulendijks and Eric Pang. This team was formed as a result of a conflict with the Nederlandse Badminton Bond sponsored by Yonex, and these four players were non Yonex sponsored players, Yao Jie playing for sponsor Carlton. The conflict heightened in 2011 when these four non Yonex sponsored players were not included in the National squad to play the European Team Championships in Amsterdam. Despite all these juridical sponsor wranglings, Yao Jie managed to qualify for the London Olympics. At the 2012 Olympic Games in the Women's Singles Yao Jie won Group F by beating Akvilė Stapušaitytė of Lithuania 21–16, 21–7 and Ragna Ingólfsdóttir of Iceland 21–12, 25–23. After the group stage, in the knock-out stage round of 16 Yao Jie lost to Saina Nehwal of India 14–21, 16–21. Saina later progressed to win India's first Olympic badminton medal, a bronze.

Nowadays Yao Jie has her own Badminton Academy at her hometown Wuhan in China and is ambassador for Dutch Badminton in sports and cultural exchanges between the Netherlands and China.

Achievements

World Cup

Women's singles

Year Venue Opponent Score Result
2005 Olympic Park, Yiyang, China Template:Flagicon Zhang Ning Walkover Bronze Bronze

European Championships

Women's singles

Year Venue Opponent Score Result
2002 Baltiska hallen, Malmö, Sweden Template:Flagicon Mia Audina 8–6, 7–3, 7–1 Gold Gold
2004 Queue d’Arve Sport Center, Geneva, Switzerland Template:Flagicon Pi Hongyan 4–11, 6–11 Bronze Bronze
2006 Maaspoort Sports and Events, Den Bosch, Netherlands Template:Flagicon Xu Huaiwen Walkover Bronze Bronze
2012 Telenor Arena, Karlskrona, Sweden Template:Flagicon Juliane Schenk 13–21, 10–21 Bronze Bronze

World Junior Championships

Girls' doubles

Year Venue Partner Opponent Score Result
1994 Kuala Lumpur Badminton Stadium, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Template:Flagicon Liu Lu Template:Flagicon Qiang Hong
Template:Flagicon Wang Li 		17–16, 7–15, 15–7 Gold Gold

Mixed doubles

Year Venue Partner Opponent Score Result
1994 Kuala Lumpur Badminton Stadium, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Template:Flagicon Yang Bing Template:Flagicon Zhang Wei
Template:Flagicon Qiang Hong 		8–15, 6–15 Silver Silver

BWF Grand Prix

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.

Women's singles

Year Tournament Opponent Score Result
1995 Brunei Open Template:Flagicon Zeng Yaqiong 11–5, 12–10 Template:Gold1 Winner
1996 German Open Template:Flagicon Margit Borg 11–1, 11–0 Template:Gold1 Winner
1998 Dutch Open Template:Flagicon Zhou Mi 13–10, 11–13, 4–11 Template:Silver2 Runner-up
2001 Dutch Open Template:Flagicon Mia Audina 5–7, 7–1, 5–7, 5–7 Template:Silver2 Runner-up
2002 German Open Template:Flagicon Pi Hongyan 11–4, 9–11, 7–11 Template:Silver2 Runner-up
2003 Dutch Open Template:Flagicon Dai Yun 13–10, 3–0 Retired Template:Gold1 Winner
2004 Thailand Open Template:Flagicon Jun Jae-youn 11–8, 2–11, 11–6 Template:Gold1 Winner
2004 Dutch Open Template:Flagicon Pi Hongyan 5–11, 4–11 Template:Silver2 Runner-up
2004 Denmark Open Template:Flagicon Xie Xingfang 9–11, 11–8, 7–11 Template:Silver2 Runner-up
2005 Thailand Open Template:Flagicon Xu Huaiwen 11–6, 11–7 Template:Gold1 Winner
2005 Dutch Open Template:Flagicon Xu Huaiwen 7–11, 2–11 Template:Silver2 Runner-up
2006 China Open Template:Flagicon Zhang Ning 14–21, 5–21 Template:Silver2 Runner-up
2008 Dutch Open Template:Flagicon Linda Zetchiri 21–14, 21–13 Template:Gold1 Winner
2009 Dutch Open Template:Flagicon Judith Meulendijks 21–11, 21–12 Template:Gold1 Winner
2010 Dutch Open Template:Flagicon Juliane Schenk 13–21, 21–14, 15–21 Template:Silver2 Runner-up
2011 Dutch Open Template:Flagicon P. V. Sindhu 21–16, 21–17 Template:Gold1 Winner
2011 Bitburger Open Template:Flagicon Li Xuerui 8–21, 9–21 Template:Silver2 Runner-up
2012 Bitburger Open Template:Flagicon Juliane Schenk 10–21, 21–15, 23–25 Template:Silver2 Runner-up
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BWF International Challenge/Series

Women's singles

Year Tournament Opponent Score Result
2001 Dutch International Template:Flagicon Mia Audina 9–11, 11–1, 13–10 Template:Gold1 Winner
2009 Belgian International Template:Flagicon Misaki Matsutomo 21–14, 14–21, 21–16 Template:Gold1 Winner
2011 Italian International Template:Flagicon Petya Nedelcheva 21–11, 21–17 Template:Gold1 Winner
2012 Finnish Open Template:Flagicon Michelle Li 22–20, 21–19 Template:Gold1 Winner
2012 Dutch International Template:Flagicon Soniia Cheah 19–21, 21–9, 21–12 Template:Gold1 Winner
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Record Against Selected Opponents

Includes results from all competitions against Super Series finalists, World Championship semifinalists, Olympic quarterfinalists, and all Olympic opponents.<ref>http://bwfcontent.tournamentsoftware.com/profile/selectheadtohead.aspx?id=15EC2421-543A-4E50-B70C-04C4955053AE Template:Dead link</ref>

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References

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