Wang Xiaoli (; born 24 June 1989) is a Chinese

badminton Badminton is a racquet sport played using racket (sports equipment), racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net (device), net. Although it may be played with larger teams, the most common forms of the game are "singles" (with one player per s ...

player who is a doubles specialist. In 2012, she competed at the

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Career

In 2005, she joined the Chinese national second team and officially became the first team in 2008. Wang Xiaoli began her international career in 2009 when she paired with Tao Jiaming in mixed doubles and with Ma Jin in women's doubles. She quickly gained success with Ma Jin and culminated their career with a gold medal at the 2009 Asia Championships. In the middle of the 2010 season, Wang Xiaoli dropped mixed doubles from her repertoire of events and began competing in women's doubles with Yu Yang. Despite their short time together, Wang Xiaoli and Yu Yang have reached the number one ranking in the world for their event. In 2011, she and Yu Yang received an award "BWF Female Player of the Year", who have become the first shuttlers to scoop a grand slam with their 5 BWF World Superseries Premier titles in 2011. Having only teamed up for slightly over a year, they have already picked up the 2011 World title and were also champions at the 2011 Asian Championships. They also made 12 consecutive finals appearances with 7 BWF World Superseries titles to their name in 2011. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, Wang and her partner, Yu Yang, along with Jung Kyung-eun and

Kim Ha-na Kim Ha-na ( Hangul: 김하나; or ; born 27 December 1989) is a South Korean badminton player. She was the mixed doubles gold medalist at the 2013 Asian Championships, and was part of the national team that won the Sudirman Cup in 2017. Kim ...

, Ha Jung-eun and Kim Min-jung of

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, and Meiliana Jauhari and Greysia Polii of

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, were disqualified from the competition for "not using one's best efforts to win a match" and "conducting oneself in a manner that is clearly abusive or detrimental to the sport", following matches the previous evening during which they were accused of throwing the match. Yu Yang and Wang Xiaoli played against South Korea's Jung Kyung-eun and

, and it has been suggested that both teams wanted to lose in order to secure an easier draw, although Yu claimed "she and her partner were just trying to conserve their strength for the knockout rounds".

Achievements

BWF World Championships

''Women's doubles''

Asian Games

''Women's doubles''

Asian Championships

''Women's doubles''

East Asian Games

''Women's doubles''

BWF World Junior Championships

''Girls' doubles'' ''Mixed doubles''

Asian Junior Championships

''Girls' doubles''

BWF Superseries

The BWF Superseries, which was launched on 14 December 2006 and implemented in 2007, is a series of elite badminton tournaments, sanctioned by the

Badminton World Federation The Badminton World Federation (BWF) is the international governing body for the sport of badminton recognised by the International Olympic Committee (IOC). It was founded in 1934 as the International Badminton Federation (IBF) with nine member ...

(BWF). BWF Superseries levels are Superseries and Superseries Premier. A season of Superseries consists of twelve tournaments around the world that have been introduced since 2011. Successful players are invited to the Superseries Finals, which are held at the end of each year. ''Women's doubles'' ''Mixed doubles'' : BWF Superseries Finals tournament : BWF Superseries Premier tournament : BWF Superseries tournament

BWF Grand Prix

The BWF Grand Prix had two levels, the

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. It was a series of badminton tournaments sanctioned by the

(BWF) which was held from 2007 to 2017. ''Women's doubles'' : BWF Grand Prix Gold tournament :

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tournament

Record against selected opponents

Women's doubles results with Yu Yang against Superseries Finals finalists, Worlds Semi-finalists, and Olympic quarterfinalists. * / Petya Nedelcheva &

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1–0 * Alex Bruce & Michelle Li 1–0 * Bao Yixin & Lu Lu 1–0 * Bao Yixin & Zhong Qianxin 3–0 * Cheng Shu & Zhao Yunlei 6–0 * Ma Jin & Zhong Qianxin 1–0 * Tian Qing & Zhao Yunlei 8–3 * Xia Huan & Tang Jinhua 3–1 * Ma Jin & Tang Jinhua 5–0 * Bao Yixin & Cheng Shu 0–1 * Bao Yixin & Tang Jinhua 0–1 * Ma Jin & Tang Yuanting 3–0 * Bao Yixin & Tang Yuanting 0–1 * Luo Ying & Luo Yu 4–0 * Cheng Wen-hsing & Chien Yu-chin 4–0 * Christinna Pedersen & Kamilla Rytter Juhl 6–1 * Poon Lok Yan & Tse Ying Suet 8–0 * Jwala Gutta & Ashwini Ponnappa 3–0 * Vita Marissa & Nadya Melati 2–0 * Mizuki Fujii & Reika Kakiiwa 4–0 * Miyuki Maeda & Satoko Suetsuna 5–0 *

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Mami Naito is a Japanese badminton player from the Yonex team, who competed at the 2014 Asian Games. She educated physical education at the Nippon Sport Science University, Tokyo. Her older brother, Yusuke Naito is a badminton coach. Naito and her women' ...

7–0 * Misaki Matsutomo & Ayaka Takahashi 3–0 * Ha Jung-eun & Kim Min-jung 7–1 * Jung Kyung-eun &

5–0 * Chin Eei Hui & Wong Pei Tty 2–0 * Valeria Sorokina &

Nina Vislova Nina Gennadyevna Vislova (russian: Нина Геннадьевна Вислова; born 4 October 1986) is a badminton player from Russia. Along with her doubles partner Valeria Sorokina, Vislova is the first Russian Olympic medalist in badminton ...

1–0 * Shinta Mulia Sari & Yao Lei 2–0 * Michelle Claire Edwards &

Annari Viljoen Annari Viljoen (born 16 January 1987 in Bloemfontein) is a South African badminton player. In 2011, she won double title at the All-Africa Games in the women's and mixed doubles event, also won the silver medal in the team event. She competed at ...

1–0 * Duanganong Aroonkesorn & Kunchala Voravichitchaikul 5–0

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Wang, Xiaoli 1989 births Living people Badminton players from Hubei Chinese female badminton players Badminton players at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympic badminton players of China Badminton players at the 2010 Asian Games Badminton players at the 2014 Asian Games Asian Games gold medalists for China Asian Games silver medalists for China Asian Games medalists in badminton Medalists at the 2010 Asian Games Medalists at the 2014 Asian Games World No. 1 badminton players BWF Best Female Player of the Year