Wang Shixian (Chinese: 王适娴; pinyin: Wáng Shìxián; Mandarin pronunciation: [wǎŋ.ʂî ɕjɛ̌n]; born 13 February 1990) is a retired Chinese professional badminton player. She is a former World No. 1 in women's singles.

Wang Shixian
王适娴
Wang Shixian at the 2011 German Open
Personal information
CountryChina
Born (1990-02-13) 13 February 1990 (age 34)
Suzhou, Jiangsu, China
Height1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Weight58 kg (128 lb; 9.1 st)
HandednessRight
CoachChen Jin
Women's singles
Career record284 Win, 87 Loss
Highest ranking1 (13 January 2011[1])
Medal record
Women's badminton
Representing  China
World Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2010 Paris Women's singles
Sudirman Cup
Gold medal – first place 2011 Qingdao Mixed team
Gold medal – first place 2013 Kuala Lumpur Mixed team
Gold medal – first place 2015 Dongguan Mixed team
Uber Cup
Gold medal – first place 2012 Wuhan Women's team
Gold medal – first place 2014 New Delhi Women's team
Gold medal – first place 2016 Kunshan Women's team
Silver medal – second place 2010 Kuala Lumpur Women's team
Asian Games
Gold medal – first place 2010 Guangzhou Women's singles
Gold medal – first place 2010 Guangzhou Women's team
Gold medal – first place 2014 Incheon Women's team
Asian Championships
Silver medal – second place 2014 Gimcheon Women's singles
Bronze medal – third place 2012 Qingdao Women's singles
Asia Team Championships
Gold medal – first place 2016 Hyderabad Women's team
East Asian Games
Gold medal – first place 2013 Tianjin Women's team
Silver medal – second place 2013 Tianjin Women's singles
World Junior Championships
Gold medal – first place 2007 Waitakere City Mixed team
Gold medal – first place 2008 Pune Mixed team
Bronze medal – third place 2008 Pune Girls' singles
Asian Junior Championships
Gold medal – first place 2008 Kuala Lumpur Mixed team
Silver medal – second place 2008 Kuala Lumpur Girls' singles
BWF profile
Wang Shixian
Simplified Chinese王适娴
Traditional Chinese王適嫻

Career edit

Wang Shixian was admitted into Chinese Junior National Team in 2005 and was soon promoted to the second-level adult team a year later, but she got the chance to compete in the international stages only in 2009, after being promoted to the first-level adult team.

2007–2009 edit

Wang participated in 2007 BWF World Junior Championships being unseeded. She lost to Bae Yeon-ju there in straight games. In 2008, she won a silver medal in 2008 Asian Junior Badminton Championships, after losing to Li Xuerui, her compatriot.[2] She also won a bronze medal in 2008 BWF World Junior Championships losing the semifinal to eventual winner Saina Nehwal.[3]

In 2009, she stunned several seeded players in Malaysia Open Grand Prix Gold, including former world champion Zhu Lin in the second round, and reached the final. By beating her teammate Wang Xin there, she won her career's first-ever title.[4] She won her first superseries title by winning 2009 China Masters Super Series in which she beat a series of strong rivals on her way, including no. 4 seed Wang Yihan in quarter-final, reigning world champion Lu Lan in semis, and no. 2 seeded Wang Lin in the final.[5]

2010–2011 edit

Wang won 2 superseries titles this year, first one was 2010 Korea Open Super Series, where she beat Sung Ji-hyun in the final[6] and another one was the 2010 Swiss Super Series event, by beating Jiang Yanjiao of China.[7]

In the 2010 BWF World Championships, she defeated Saina Nehwal in the quarter-final and assured herself of the first ever major medal in her career. She settled for a bronze medal after losing the semifinal to Wang Xin with 19–21, 21–11, 16–21.[8] She savoured her career's biggest ever success by winning the gold medal in the 2010 Asian games, beating her recent nemesis Wang Xin in the final with 21–18, 21–15 scores.[9] She had runner-up finishes at the 2010 China Open Super Series[10] & 2010 Hong Kong Super Series[11] events also later in the year.

In 2011, Wang took part in the 2010 BWF Super Series Finals. In the group stage, she defeated Yao Jie, Salakjit Ponsana & Bae Yeon-ju in straight games. With her group victories, she advanced to the semifinal where she met Hong Kong's Yip Pui Yin and beat her in 2 games. Her opponent for the final was Bae Yeon-ju, whom Shixian defeated earlier in the group stage. This time too, Wang beat her, with 21–13, 21–15 scores and claimed the title victory which helped her to reach the World no. 1 position for the first time after ranks were updated next week.[12] She then won the 2011 Malaysia Super Series after securing a stunning victory against Wang Yihan.[13] Only after a week, she lost to same opponent Wang Yihan in the final of 2011 Korea Super Series.[14] She claimed her first ever All England crown with her fascinating victory over Japan's Eriko Hirose in the final of 2011 All England Super Series with 24–22, 21–18 scoreline.[15] She was seeded top in the 2011 BWF World Championships where she was upset by Taipei's shuttler Cheng Shao-chieh in quarter-final.[16] She then claimed 2011 China Masters Super Series title when she was leading 21–16 and 8–5 & her opponent Jiang Yanjiao retired.[17] She also claimed Macau Open title in the year end by beating Han Li in the summit clash.[18]

2012 edit

Wang won the Korean Open title by beating Jiang Yanjiao in the final clash.[19] She was the finalist in the 2012 Swiss Open Grand Prix Gold, where she gone down against Saina Nehwal.[20] She won her first Asian Championship medal when she reached the semifinal. But was defeated by Wang Yihan hence settled for bronze.[21] She was the prime contender from China for the participation in the 2012 Olympics, other already confirmed players from China were Wang Yihan and Wang Xin. But there was another rising Chinese player Li Xuerui who was ranked below Wang Shixian but with her stunning 6 finals in the 1st half of 2012 made her ranking points more than Shixian and hence, the head coach Li Yongbo selected Li instead of Wang Shixian to contest the Olympics, and Shixian's Olympic dream was broken.[22] However some sources say she had relatively poor performance against other top players of different countries when compared to her teammates, significantly against players like Saina Nehwal & Juliane Schenk. Li Xuerui on the other hand had beaten them multiple times so that's why Shixian was omitted from the Olympic squad and Li was chosen.[23] In year end finals, she reached the semifinal after having 2 group wins. She ousted Ratchanok Intanon there and advanced to final round. She retired when trailing 9–21, 4–15 against Li Xuerui and finished as runner-up.[24]

2013 edit

 
Wang at the 2013 French Super Series.

After a moment of distress Wang Shixian started the year very well, she was runner-up to the Victor Korea Open where she was ousted by Sung Ji-hyun.[25] She succeeded in taking the Swiss Open title by beating Ratchanok Intanon.[26] Wang Shixian competed at the BWF world championship that took place in Guangzhou China as the 7th seed. Nonetheless, she lost against P. V. Sindhu again (18–21; 17–21) who also downed Wang's compatriot & defending champion Wang Yihan earlier in the 2nd round.[27] The Chinese coaches later revealed that they took time to analyze Sindhu's game. In October, Wang Shixian played at the Yonex French Open Superseries as the 7 seed, she managed to climb her way to the final in getting rid of all her opponents in 2 straight games. Wang showed a great performance and overcame a tough challenge by Thailand's Porntip Buranaprasertsuk to win (21–18; 21–18) and grabbed her 1st Superseries title since the Victor Korea Open in 2012.[28] She then lost in the finals of 2013 China Open Super Series Premier[29] & 2013 Hong Kong Super Series[30] to her team-mates Li Xuerui & Wang Yihan respectively. She put up a good show at the 2013 BWF Super Series Finals where she won all her group stage matches against Tai Tzu-ying, Sung Ji-hyun and Porntip Buranaprasertsuk in 2 games. She was favourite to win the semifinal after her repeat clash with Tai again. But this time, she suffered defeat, with very narrow margins in 3 tense games.[31]

2014 edit

She made her way to the final of the 2014 Malaysia Super Series Premier but lost against her compatriot Li Xuerui.[32] She then afterwards won her 2nd All England title, in which she defeated the trio of Olympic medallists (Nehwal in quarter-final, Yihan in semifinal & Li Xuerui in the final) which made her victory even more memorable.[33] Meanwhile, Chen Long made his way to the final and the English media seized the occasion to talk about the All England as the fulfillment of the love affair of Chen and Shixian. However, both of them confessed in an interview that they didn't know what went on in England and it was embarrassing to mix their professional relationship and private life in order to make the buzz. In the 2014 India Super Series, even though Wang faced tough opponents as she was reckoned as the player who's been on court the longest time that to say almost six hours, she won the title, beating Li Xuerui yet again 22–20, 21–19.[34] In an Interview Shixian said "It's all about beating the others so as long as China wins we're happy" which shows the fair play and the support between players. She also settled for the silver medal in 2014 Badminton Asia Championships where she lost to Sung Ji-hyun who was playing in front of her home crowd.[35] Wang was second-seeded in the 2014 BWF World Championships and was one of the favourites to win the tournament. But she was again defeated in a thrilling quarter-final match against P. V. Sindhu, a player to whom Wang lost to in the previous year.[36] In September Wang played in the team event of the Asian games. She and her team won the gold medal beating the Korean team 3–0. However, she didn't get selected in the individual event.[37] In October, Wang Shixian retained her French title, her third superseries title of the year, after Li Xuerui retired in the 2nd game, 21–15, 8–5.[38] Wang Shixian qualified in first place for the year end Super Series Finals staged for the first time in Dubai. She lost all three of her round-robin matches in straight sets and exited the tournament.

2015–2016 edit

2015 proved disappointing year for Wang, as she was stopped in the semifinals of many tournaments. In her quarter-final at the 2015 Malaysia Super Series Premier, she played the longest ever Women's singles badminton match against Nozomi Okuhara, which lasted for 1 hours & 51 minutes. Wang won that encounter and Okuhara was left cramping in that historic match.[39] She did have final appearances at the 2015 Australian Super Series[40] and 2015 French Super Series,[41] both of them being lost to Carolina Marín. She was also a quarterfinalist at the 2015 BWF World Championships, where she lost to Marín again.[42] In the 2014 BWF Super Series Finals, she won only one match (against Sung Ji-hyun) & lost other 2 group matches which denied her advancement in the semifinals.

In 2016, she paddled off the year with the runner-up finish at the 2016 German Open Grand Prix Gold where she lost to Li Xuerui.[43] In her overall 3rd final at the All England Open, Wang was beaten by Nozomi Okuhara in a controversial 3-gamer, in which she lost a close 11–21, 21–16, 19–21 match.[44] In the 2016 Chinese Taipei Open Grand Prix Gold, she made her way to the final before losing to local star Tai Tzu-ying in the final.[45] Just like the last Olympics, Shixian again failed to participate in the 2016 Olympics, as Chinese team selected higher ranked Wang Yihan as a 2nd qualifier from China, another already confirmed player was the defending Olympic champion Li Xuerui. She subsequently decided to take retirement from the professional badminton.[46][47]

Personal life edit

 
Wang (back) and teammate Jiang Yanjiao shopping for jewelry in 2011.

Wang graduated from the Nanjing University of Finance and Economics with a bachelor's degree.[citation needed] After retirement she finished a master's degree in sports education at the Beijing Sports University where she has taught since 2020.[48]

She married former teammate Chen Long in 2017, after over a decade together.[49] She gave birth to a son Chen Shan Yang, nickname "Coffee", in June 2019.[50]

As a child she attended a sports school in Jiangsu province. The boy who sat next to her during classes was table tennis player Xu Xin.[51][52]

Achievements edit

BWF World Championships edit

Women's singles

Year Venue Opponent Score Result
2010 Stade Pierre de Coubertin, Paris, France   Wang Xin 19–21, 21–11, 16–21   Bronze

Asian Games edit

Women's singles

Year Venue Opponent Score Result
2010 Tianhe Gymnasium, Guangzhou, China   Wang Xin 21–18, 21–15   Gold

Asian Championships edit

Women's singles

Year Venue Opponent Score Result
2012 Qingdao Sports Centre Conson Stadium, Qingdao, China   Wang Yihan 19–21, 12–21   Bronze
2014 Gimcheon Indoor Stadium, Gimcheon, South Korea   Sung Ji-hyun 19–21, 15–21   Silver

East Asian Games edit

Women's singles

Year Venue Opponent Score Result
2013 Binhai New Area Dagang Gymnasium, Tianjin, China   Han Li 21–14, 17–21, 20–22   Silver

BWF World Junior Championships edit

Girls' singles

Year Venue Opponent Score Result
2008 Shree Shiv Chhatrapati Badminton Hall, Pune, India   Saina Nehwal 20–22, 12–21   Bronze

BWF Superseries (12 titles, 11 runners-up) edit

The BWF Superseries, launched on 14 December 2006 and implemented in 2007,[53] is a series of elite badminton tournaments, sanctioned by Badminton World Federation (BWF). BWF Superseries has two level such as Superseries and Superseries Premier. A season of Superseries features twelve tournaments around the world, which introduced since 2011,[54] with successful players invited to the Superseries Finals held at the year end.

Women's singles

Year Tournament Opponent Score Result
2009 China Masters   Wang Lin 21–14, 14–21, 21–14   Winner
2010 Korea Open   Sung Ji-hyun 21–10, 25–23   Winner
2010 Swiss Open   Jiang Yanjiao 21–15, 21–19   Winner
2010 China Open   Jiang Yanjiao 16–21, 19–21   Runner-up
2010 Hong Kong Open   Saina Nehwal 21–15, 16–21, 17–21   Runner-up
2010 World Superseries Finals   Bae Youn-joo 21–13, 21–15   Winner
2011 Malaysia Open   Wang Yihan 21–18, 21–14   Winner
2011 Korea Open   Wang Yihan 14–21, 18–21   Runner-up
2011 All England Open   Eriko Hirose 24–22, 21–18   Winner
2011 China Masters   Jiang Yanjiao 21–16, 8–5 retired   Winner
2012 Korea Open   Jiang Yanjiao 21–12, 21–17   Winner
2012 World Superseries Finals   Li Xuerui 9–21, 4–15 retired   Runner-up
2013 Korea Open   Sung Ji-hyun 12–21, 20–22   Runner-up
2013 French Open   Porntip Buranaprasertsuk 21–18, 21–18   Winner
2013 China Open   Li Xuerui 21–16, 17–21, 19–21   Runner-up
2013 Hong Kong Open   Wang Yihan 13–21, 21–16, 15–21   Runner-up
2014 Malaysia Open   Li Xuerui 16–21, 17–21   Runner-up
2014 All England Open   Li Xuerui 21–19, 21–18   Winner
2014 India Open   Li Xuerui 22–20, 21–19   Winner
2014 French Open   Li Xuerui 21–15, 8–3 retired   Winner
2015 Australian Open   Carolina Marín 20–22, 18–21   Runner-up
2015 French Open   Carolina Marín 18–21, 10–21   Runner-up
2016 All England Open   Nozomi Okuhara 11–21, 21–16, 19–21   Runner-up
  BWF Superseries Finals tournament
  BWF Superseries Premier tournament
  BWF Superseries tournament

BWF Grand Prix (3 titles, 3runners-up) edit

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

Women's singles

Year Tournament Opponent Score Result
2009 Malaysia Grand Prix Gold   Wang Xin 21–16, 18–21, 21–10   Winner
2011 Macau Open   Han Li 21–14, 21–14   Winner
2012 Swiss Open   Saina Nehwal 19–21, 16–21   Runner-up
2013 Swiss Open   Ratchanok Intanon 21–16, 21–12   Winner
2016 German Open   Li Xuerui 14–21, 17–21   Runner-up
2016 Chinese Taipei Open   Tai Tzu-ying 21–23, 6–21   Runner-up
  BWF Grand Prix Gold tournament
  BWF Grand Prix tournament

Performance timeline edit

Singles performance timeline edit

Key
W F SF QF #R RR Q# A G S B NH N/A DNQ
(W) won; (F) finalist; (SF) semi-finalist; (QF) quarter-finalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (A) absent; (G) gold, (S) silver or (B) bronze medal; (NH) not held; (N/A) not applicable; (DNQ) did not qualify.
To avoid confusion and double counting, these charts are updated at the conclusion of a tournament or when the player's participation has ended.

To avoid confusion and double counting, information in this table is updated only once a tournament or the player's participation in the tournament has concluded. This table is current through 2016 All England Super Series Premier.

Tournament 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 SR W–L Win %
Summer Olympics NH A not held A not held 0 / 0
World Championships A NH A SF-B
3–1
QF
2–1
NH QF
2–1
QF
2–1
QF
2–1
NH 0 / 5 11–5 69%
World Superseries Finals NH absent W
5–0
A F
3–2
SF
3–1
RR
0–3
RR
1–2
1 / 5 12–8 60%
Asian Championships absent 2R
1–1
SF-B
3–1
2R
1–1
S
3–1
3R
1–1
0 / 5 9–5 64%
Asian Games not held G
4–0
not held A not held 1 / 1 4–0 100%
East Asian Games not held A not held S
2–1
not held 0 / 1 2–1 67%
Team Competitions
Uber Cup NH A NH S
1–0
NH G
1–0
NH G
5–0
NH 2 / 3 7–0 100%
Sudirman Cup A NH A NH G
1–1
NH A NH A NH 1 / 1 1–1 50%
Asian Games not held G
2–0
not held G
3–0
not held 2 / 2 5–0 100%
East Asian Games not held A not held G
2–0
not held 1 / 1 2–0 100%
BWF World Superseries Premier
All England Open absent 1R
0–1
W
5–0
SF
3–1
QF
2–1
W
5–0
QF
2–1
2 / 6 17–4 81%
Malaysia Open absent 2R
1–1
W
5–0
SF
3–1
A F
4–1
SF
3–1
1 / 5 16–4 80%
Indonesia Open absent 1R
1–1
QF
2–1
1R
0–1
SF
3–1
SF
3–1
0 / 5 9–5 64%
Denmark Open absent SF
3–1
QF
2–1
SF
3–1
SF
3–1
QF
2–1
0 / 5 13–5 72%
China Open Q3
2–1
Q2
0–1
SF
3–1
F
4–1
2R
1–1
2R
1–1
F
4–1
2R
1–1
SF
3–1
0 / 9 18–9 67%
BWF World Superseries
India Open NH A 2R
1–1
absent QF
2–1
A W
5–0
A 1 / 3 8–2 80%
Singapore Open absent SF
3–1
A QF
2–1
A SF
3–1
0 / 3 8–3 73%
Australian Open absent SF
3–1
F
4–1
0 / 2 7–2 78%
Japan Open absent SF
3–1
QF
2–1
A QF
2–1
A SF
3–1
0 / 4 10–4 71%
Korea Open absent W
5–0
F
4–1
W
5–0
F
4–1
SF
3–1
SF
3–1
2 / 6 24–4 86%
French Open absent 2R
1–1
A 1R
0–1
2R
1–1
W
5–0
W
5–0
F
4–1
2 / 6 16–4 80%
Hong Kong Open absent QF
2–1
F
4–1
SF
3–1
2R
1–1
F
4–1
2R
1–1
A 0 / 6 15–6 71%
BWF Grand Prix Gold and Grand Prix
Malaysia Masters not held W
7–0
absent 1 / 1 7–0 100%
Swiss Open absent W
5–0
A F
4–1
W
5–0
QF
2–1
absent 2 / 4 16–2 89%
China Masters absent W
5–0
SF
3–1
W
5–0
2R
0–1
1R
0–1
absent 2 / 5 13–3 81%
Chinese Taipei Open absent QF
2–1
0 / 2 6–2 75%
Macau Open absent 2R
1–1
A W
5–0
absent 1 / 1 5–0 100%
Philippines Open A NH SF
3–1
not held 0 / 1 3–1 75%
Career Statistics
2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
Tournaments played 1 1 8 13 15 14 16 16 13 97
Titles 0 0 2 5 5 2 3 5 0 22
Finals Reached 0 0 2 8 6 4 7 7 2 36
Overall win–loss 2–1 0–1 23–6 40–11 41–11 31–13 41–13 48–13 36–15 262–84
Win Percentage 67% 0% 79% 78% 79% 70% 76% 79% 71% 75.72%
Year End Ranking[55] 12 2 3 5 2 2 6

Record against selected opponents edit

Record against year-end Finals finalists, World Championships semi-finalists, and Olympic quarter-finalists.

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