Nguyễn Thùy Linh (born 20 November 1997) is a Vietnamese

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player. She started her career by leaving her hometown in

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, train at the Hanoi badminton club, and later joined Da Nang club. She represented her country at the

2015 Southeast Asian Games The 2015 Southeast Asian Games ( ms, Sukan Asia Tenggara 2015; ; ta, 2015 தென்கிழக்கு ஆசிய விளையாட்டுப் போட்டிகள்), officially known as the 28th Southeast Asian Games, or ...

when she was 18 years old.

Career

2016

She won her first international title at the 2016 Nepal International, and at the same year, she entered the top 100 in the women's singles world ranking.

2022

She won a bronze medal in the 2021 Southeast Asian Games mixed team event. She also competed in the 2022 BWF World Championships and made a huge upset when she won against

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in the first round. She lost the second round to eventual bronze medalist

An Se-young An Se-young (; born 5 February 2002) is a South Korean badminton player from Gwangju, who was awarded as 2019 Most Promising Player of the Year by the BWF. In 2018, An was selected to join the national team and became the first junior high s ...

. On September, she won the

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tournament, defeating

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in the final. A month later, she won her first ever World Tour title at the home tournament

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Achievements

BWF World Tour (1 title)

The BWF World Tour, which was announced on 19 March 2017 and implemented in 2018, is a series of elite badminton tournaments sanctioned by the

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(BWF). The BWF World Tour is divided into levels of World Tour Finals, Super 1000, Super 750, Super 500, Super 300 (part of the HSBC World Tour), and the BWF Tour Super 100. ''Women's singles''

BWF International Challenge/Series (8 titles, 5 runners-up)

''Women's singles'' :

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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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* * 1997 births Living people People from Phú Thọ province 21st-century Vietnamese women Vietnamese female badminton players Badminton players at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic badminton players of Vietnam Badminton players at the 2018 Asian Games Asian Games competitors for Vietnam Competitors at the 2015 Southeast Asian Games Competitors at the 2017 Southeast Asian Games Competitors at the 2019 Southeast Asian Games Competitors at the 2021 Southeast Asian Games Southeast Asian Games bronze medalists for Vietnam Southeast Asian Games medalists in badminton {{Vietnam-badminton-bio-stub