Wang Shixian
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Wang Shixian is a female badminton player from China
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, and currently the World's top ranked women's singles player.

Career

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 international stages only in 2009, after being transformed to the first-level adult team.

2007

Wang Shixian competed in the World Junior Championship but lost to a Korean player in the final.

2009

Early in this year, she won her first Super Series title in Malaysia open, beating her teammate, Wang Xin
Wang Xin (badminton)
Wang Xin is a female badminton player from China and former World No 1 women's singles player.-Individual titles :-External links:*...

.
In the China Masters, Wang Shixian beat a series of strong rivals, including her teammate Jiang Yanjiao
Jiang Yanjiao
Jiang Yanjiao , is a female badminton player from the People's Republic of China.-Career:A winner of both the BWF World Junior Championships and the Asian Junior Championships , Jiang has since emerged as one of the world's leading women's singles players...

 and Malaysian single player Wong Mew Choo.
She also helped to win the team gold for the Jiangsu Province in the 11th China National Games but was beaten in the final of the women's singles by Wang Lin.

2010

Wang Shixian won gold at the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou beating Wang Xin
Wang Xin (badminton)
Wang Xin is a female badminton player from China and former World No 1 women's singles player.-Individual titles :-External links:*...

.

2011

Wang Shixian won the first two titles competed in the year which is the Super Series Final beating Bae Youn-joo
Bae Youn-joo
Bae Youn-joo is an internationally elite badminton player from South Korea.Bae first gained international attention in 2006 when she reached the semifinals in the women's singles and won the gold medal as a member of the South Korean mixed team at the BWF World Junior Championships.Bae joined the...

 and the Malaysia Open beating Wang Yihan
Wang Yihan
Wang Yihan is a professional female badminton player from China and the reigning women's singles world champion. Wang started her career with her coach Wang Pengren at only nine years of age. She was selected for the junior team in 2004, and after being promoted to the senior team in 2006 she...

. Wang Shixian also won the All England Open beating Eriko Hirose
Eriko Hirose
Eriko Hirose is a female badminton player from Japan. She is currently ranked thirteenth in the world as a singles player as of June 2011.She competed at the 2005 World Badminton Championships in Anaheim...

 in the final.

Personal life

Wang Shixian told the media that she liked to listen to CDs and tasting different kinds of food in her spare time.

Record Against Selected Opponents

Petya Nedelcheva
Petya Nedelcheva
Petya Nedelcheva is a female Bulgarian badminton player. She was born in Stara Zagora, Bulgaria. At the Bulgarian National Badminton Championships she won more than 20 titles.-2004 Summer Olympics:...

 1-0 Linda Zechiri 1-0 Wang Xin
Wang Xin (badminton)
Wang Xin is a female badminton player from China and former World No 1 women's singles player.-Individual titles :-External links:*...

 5-5 Wang Yihan
Wang Yihan
Wang Yihan is a professional female badminton player from China and the reigning women's singles world champion. Wang started her career with her coach Wang Pengren at only nine years of age. She was selected for the junior team in 2004, and after being promoted to the senior team in 2006 she...

 2-3 Lu Lan
Lu Lan
Lu Lan is a female badminton player from the People's Republic of China.-Career:In 2004 she won the Polish Open. In 2006 she won the Korea Open and finished the year in the 5th position in the BWF World Ranking....

 2-1 Wang Lin
Wang Lin (badminton)
Wang Lin is a badminton player from China. Wang Lin was crowned the world champion after winning the gold medal at the 2010 BWF World Championships held at Paris defeating fellow Chinese Wang Xin 21-19, 19-21, 21-13....

 2-0 Jiang Yanjiao
Jiang Yanjiao
Jiang Yanjiao , is a female badminton player from the People's Republic of China.-Career:A winner of both the BWF World Junior Championships and the Asian Junior Championships , Jiang has since emerged as one of the world's leading women's singles players...

 3-4 Li Xuerui
Li Xuerui
Li Xuerui is a female badminton player from China.-Individual titles :-External links:*...

 1-0 Cheng Shao-chieh
Cheng Shao-Chieh
Cheng Shao-Chieh is a female badminton player from Republic of China.Cheng played badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics for the Republic of China as Chinese Taipei. In women's singles, she defeated Ling Wan Ting of Hong Kong and Jun Jae-youn of Korea in the first two rounds. In the...

 2-2 Tai Tzu-ying
Tai Tzu-ying
Tai Tzu-ying is a female badminton player from Taiwan.In 2011, she won the title of Taiwanese ranking competition when she was only 16 years and 6 months old, being the youngest No.1 in Taiwan badminton history...

 2-0 Tine Baun 2-2 Anu Nieminen
Anu Nieminen
Anu Nieminen is a female badminton player from Finland.Weckström played badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics, losing to Kaori Mori of Japan in the round of 32....

 1-0 Pi Hongyan
Pi Hongyan
Pi Hongyan is a female badminton player from France.- Career :Pi Hongyan is one of a number of talented Chinese-born badminton players who have emigrated from China, in part, because of the intense competition to gain positions on its national team, and because of the elite status within the sport...

 3-1 Juliane Schenk
Juliane Schenk
Juliane Schenk is a female badminton player from Germany.-Career:In 2001 she won the European Junior Championships in women's singles...

 3-2 Zhou Mi
Zhou Mi
Zhou Mi is a Chinese female badminton player. During much of her career she represented the People's Republic of China, but since 2007 she has represented Hong Kong which has a sports program and teams independent from those of the mainland. In 2010 she received a 2 year ban, for failing a drugs...

 1-0 Yip Pui Yin 4-0 Wang Chen 2-0 Saina Nehwal
Saina Nehwal
Saina Nehwal is an Indian Khel Ratna badminton player currently ranked 4 in the world by Badminton World Federation. Saina is the first Indian woman to reach the singles quarterfinals at the Olympics and the first Indian to win the World Junior Badminton Championships...

 1-1 Maria Kristin Yulianti
Maria Kristin Yulianti
Maria Kristin Yulianti is a women's singles badminton player from Indonesia. She is one of the most successful female Indonesian badminton players, along with Susi Susanti and Mia Audina.- 2005 :...

 1-0 Eriko Hirose
Eriko Hirose
Eriko Hirose is a female badminton player from Japan. She is currently ranked thirteenth in the world as a singles player as of June 2011.She competed at the 2005 World Badminton Championships in Anaheim...

 2-0 Sayaka Sato 1-0 Bae Youn-joo
Bae Youn-joo
Bae Youn-joo is an internationally elite badminton player from South Korea.Bae first gained international attention in 2006 when she reached the semifinals in the women's singles and won the gold medal as a member of the South Korean mixed team at the BWF World Junior Championships.Bae joined the...

 5-0 Sung Ji-hyun 2-1 Wong Mew Choo 1-0 Yao Jie 3-0 Ella Diehl 1-0 Porntip Buranaprasertsuk
Porntip Buranaprasertsuk
Porntip Buranaprasertsuk is a female badminton player from Thailand.-Achievement:Porntip won her first career Super Series title by winning the 2011 India Super Series on May 1, 2011, becoming the first Thai to win a Super Series tournament.-External links: from Badminton World Federation website...

 4-0 Inthanon Ratchanok 1-0

Individual titles (9)

Year Tournament Opponent in final Score
2011
2011 China Masters Super Series
The 2011 China Masters Super Series will be the seventh super series tournament of the 2011 BWF Super Series. The tournament will be held in Changzhou, China from September 13–18, 2011 and has a total purse of $200,000.-Seeds:# Lin Dan# Peter Gade...

China Masters
China Masters
The China Masters in an annual badminton tournament held in China. It became part of the BWF Super Series tournaments in 2007.-Past winners:-External links:*...

 (2)
  Jiang Yanjiao
Jiang Yanjiao
Jiang Yanjiao , is a female badminton player from the People's Republic of China.-Career:A winner of both the BWF World Junior Championships and the Asian Junior Championships , Jiang has since emerged as one of the world's leading women's singles players...

21-16, 8-5 (retired)
2011
2011 All England Super Series Premier
The 2011 All England Open Badminton Championships was the third super series tournament of the 2011 BWF Super Series. It was the second competition under the new format where a select group of Super Series events were elevated to premier status...

All England Open
All England Open Badminton Championships
The All England Open Badminton Championships, or simply All England, is one of the world's oldest and most prestigious badminton tournaments. Played annually, it developed after the success of world's first badminton tournament held in Guildford in 1898...

  Eriko Hirose
Eriko Hirose
Eriko Hirose is a female badminton player from Japan. She is currently ranked thirteenth in the world as a singles player as of June 2011.She competed at the 2005 World Badminton Championships in Anaheim...

24-22, 21-18
2011
2011 Malaysia Super Series
The 2011 Malaysia Super Series was the first tournament of the 2011 BWF Super Series in badminton. It was held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from January 18 to January 23, 2011.-Seeds:# Lee Chong Wei# Taufik Hidayat# Chen Long# Chen Jin Lin Dan...

Malaysia Open
Malaysia Open (badminton)
The Malaysia Open is an annual badminton event that commonly held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. The tournament has been held since 1937 and has been played in different locations such as Johor Bahru, Kota Kinabalu, Kuching, Penang, Selangor, Kuantan....

  Wang Yihan
Wang Yihan
Wang Yihan is a professional female badminton player from China and the reigning women's singles world champion. Wang started her career with her coach Wang Pengren at only nine years of age. She was selected for the junior team in 2004, and after being promoted to the senior team in 2006 she...

21-18, 21-14
2010
2010 BWF Super Series Masters Finals
The 2010 BWF Super Series Masters Finals was a top level badminton competition which was held from January 5, 2011 to January 9, 2011 in New Taipei City, Taiwan. The final was held by Chinese Taipei Badminton Association and sponsored by VICTOR. It was the final event of the BWF Super Series...

Super Series Masters Finals
BWF Super Series Masters Finals
The BWF Super Series Masters Finals is an annual badminton tournament held at the end of the year where the players compete for total prize money of US$500,000, the biggest total prize money event in BWF calendar....

  Bae Youn-joo
Bae Youn-joo
Bae Youn-joo is an internationally elite badminton player from South Korea.Bae first gained international attention in 2006 when she reached the semifinals in the women's singles and won the gold medal as a member of the South Korean mixed team at the BWF World Junior Championships.Bae joined the...

21-13, 21-15
2010
Badminton at the 2010 Asian Games
Badminton at the 2010 Asian Games was held in Tianhe Gymnasium, Guangzhou, China from November 13–21, 2010.-Medal table:-Medalists:-Men's singles:-Men's doubles:-Men's team:-Women's singles:-Women's doubles:-Women's team:...

Asian Games
Badminton at the Asian Games
Badminton is one of the regular Asian Games sports since 1962 in Jakarta, Indonesia.-History:Badminton made its debut in the Asian Games as a demonstration sport at the 1958 Asian Games in Tokyo, Japan, and became a regular competitive sport in 1962. In the 1962 Games, six events were held, with...

  Wang Xin
Wang Xin (badminton)
Wang Xin is a female badminton player from China and former World No 1 women's singles player.-Individual titles :-External links:*...

21-18, 21-15
2010
2010 Swiss Open Super Series
The 2010 Swiss Open Super Series is a top level badminton competition which will be held from March 16, 2010 to March 21, 2010 in Basel, Switzerland. It is the fourth BWF Super Series competition on the 2010 BWF Super Series schedule. The total purse for the event is $200,000. St...

Swiss Open
Swiss Open (badminton)
The Swiss Open is an annual badminton tournament held in Switzerland since 1955 and become one of the BWF Super Series tournament began 2007. 2011 the tournament was dropped down to a Grand Prix Gold event.-Previous winners:-Performances by nation:...

  Jiang Yanjiao
Jiang Yanjiao
Jiang Yanjiao , is a female badminton player from the People's Republic of China.-Career:A winner of both the BWF World Junior Championships and the Asian Junior Championships , Jiang has since emerged as one of the world's leading women's singles players...

21-15, 21-19
2010
2010 Korea Open Super Series
-Seeds:# Tine Rasmussen# Zhou Mi# Kwon Hee-sook*# Juliane Schenk# Wang Xin# Wang Shixian# Yao Jie# Salakjit Ponsana*Kwon Hee Sook was not truly seeded third...

Korea Open
Korea Open (badminton)
The Korea Open is an annual badminton event that commonly held in Seoul, South Korea. The tournament is also known as Korea Open Super Series because it become one of the BWF Super Series tournament began 2007....

  Sung Ji-hyun 21-10, 25-23
2009 China Masters
China Masters
The China Masters in an annual badminton tournament held in China. It became part of the BWF Super Series tournaments in 2007.-Past winners:-External links:*...

 (1)
  Wang Lin
Wang Lin (badminton)
Wang Lin is a badminton player from China. Wang Lin was crowned the world champion after winning the gold medal at the 2010 BWF World Championships held at Paris defeating fellow Chinese Wang Xin 21-19, 19-21, 21-13....

21-14, 14-21, 21-14
2009 Malaysia Open Grand Prix Gold
Malaysia Open Grand Prix Gold
The Malaysia Open Grand Prix Gold, began 2009, not to be confused with the Super Series tournament, is the second level tournament held after Super Series...

  Wang Xin
Wang Xin (badminton)
Wang Xin is a female badminton player from China and former World No 1 women's singles player.-Individual titles :-External links:*...

21-9, 21-12

Super Series
BWF Super Series
The BWF Super Series is a badminton tournament introduced by Badminton World Federation in order to improve the quality of the sport. It was launched on December 14, 2006 and implemented in 2007...

 tournament
Grand Prix Gold and Grand Prix
BWF Grand Prix Gold and Grand Prix
The BWF Grand Prix Gold and Grand Prix is a third-level badminton tournament structure introduced by the Badminton World Federation . It is played in several countries a season and offers a minimum of US$120,000 prize money for a Grand Prix Gold event and minimum of US$50,000 prize money for a...

 tournament

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