Kristen Tsai (born 11 July 1995) is a Taiwanese born Canadian

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player. She is the women's doubles champion at the

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, fifth time Pan Am Champion winning the women's singles title in 2012, and then the women's doubles title in 2018, 2019, 2021, and 2022.

Career

Tsai became the first Canadian ever to make in to the quarterfinals at the World Junior Championships. Lived in

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, she trained at the ClearOne badminton club, and majored in criminology at the

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. She won her first Pan Am Championships title in 2012 in the women's singles event, and after that Tsai spent a full 4 years – between the 2013 and 2017 Canada Opens – away from international competition. In 2018, she competed at the

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in Gold Coast, Australia. She won gold medal at the

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in the women's doubles partnered with

Rachel Honderich Rachel Honderich (born 21 April 1996) is a Canadian badminton player from Toronto, Ontario. She has been one of the top ranked women's individual and doubles player on the continent and a contender in major international competitions. She is a vi ...

, and a silver medal in the mixed doubles with

Nyl Yakura Nyl Kiyoshi Yakura (born 14 February 1993) is a Canadian badminton player. He captured two gold medals at the Pan American Games, winning the men's doubles title in 2019 and 2023, and also a silver in the mixed doubles in 2019. Yakura, who grew ...

in 2019 Lima. In 2021, she captured her fourth Pan Am Championships title by winning the women's doubles event partnered with Rachel Honderich. In June 2021, Tsai was named to Canada's Olympic team. In December 2022, Tsai suffered an ACL and MCL rupture while competing in the S/J league in Japan. She had ACL reconstruction surgery in March 2023.

Achievements

Pan American Games

''Women's doubles'' ''Mixed doubles''

Pan Am Championships

''Women's singles'' ''Women's doubles'' ''Mixed doubles''

Pan Am Junior Championships

''Girls' doubles''

BWF International Challenge/Series (7 titles, 5 runners-up)

''Women's singles'' ''Women's doubles'' ''Mixed doubles'' :

BWF International Challenge The BWF International Challenge is a grade 3 and level 1 tournament part of Continental Circuit of BWF tournaments along with International Series (level 2) and Future Series (level 3), sanctioned by Badminton World Federation (BWF) since 2007. ...

tournament :

BWF International Series The BWF International Series is a grade 3 and level 2 tournament part of Continental Circuit of BWF tournaments along with International Challenge (level 1) and Future Series (level 3), sanctioned by Badminton World Federation (BWF) since 2007. ...

tournament :

BWF Future Series The BWF Future Series is a grade 3 and level 3 tournaments part of Continental Circuit of BWF tournaments along with International Challenge (level 1) and International Series (level 2), sanctioned by Badminton World Federation (BWF) since 2007. ...

tournament

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* 1995 births Living people Sportspeople from Vancouver Taiwanese emigrants to Canada Canadian female badminton players Badminton players at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic badminton players for Canada Badminton players at the 2018 Commonwealth Games Badminton players at the 2022 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games competitors for Canada Badminton players at the 2019 Pan American Games Pan American Games gold medalists for Canada Pan American Games silver medalists for Canada Pan American Games medalists in badminton Medalists at the 2019 Pan American Games {{Canada-badminton-bio-stub