Juliane Schenk (born 26 November 1982) is a German

badminton Badminton is a racquet sport played using racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net. Although it may be played with larger teams, the most common forms of the game are "singles" (with one player per side) and "doubles" (with two players pe ...

player. In March 2014 she retired from international play.

Career

In 2001, she won the European Junior Championships in women's singles. 2003 saw her win the women's doubles with

Nicole Grether Nicole Grether (born 17 October 1974) is a badminton player from Germany. She competed at the 2000 Sydney and 2004 Athens Summer Olympics. Career Grether competed in badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics in women's doubles with partner Juliane S ...

in two tournaments, the

Irish International The Irish Future Series or ''Irish International'' is an international badminton tournament held in Ireland. This tournament has been a BWF Future Series, Future Series level, another tournament for higher tournament level is Irish Open (badminton) ...

and the

Bitburger Open The Hylo Open, formerly known as the BMW Badminton Cup, BMW Open, Bitburger Masters, Bitburger Open and SaarLorLux Open, is an international badminton tournament held at the Saarlandhalle in Saarbrücken, Germany, since 1988. It was sponsored by th ...

. Schenk played

badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics Badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics was held at the Goudi Olympic Hall at the Goudi Olympic Complex from 14 August through 21 August. Both men and women competed in their own singles and doubles events and together they competed in a mixed do ...

, losing in women's singles to

Tracey Hallam Tracey Jayne Hallam (born 24 March 1975) is a former English badminton player. Career Hallam played badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics. In women's singles, she defeated Juliane Schenk of Germany and Camilla Martin of Denmark in the first tw ...

of Great Britain in the round of 32. She also won the German championship in the women's doubles with Grether for the first time. She also competed in women's doubles with partner Grether. They defeated Michelle Edwards and Chantal Botts of South Africa in the first round but were defeated by

Ann-Lou Jørgensen Ann-Lou Jørgensen (born 12 June 1977) is a badminton player from Denmark. Career Jørgensen competed in badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics in women's doubles with partner Rikke Olsen. They had a bye in the first round and defeated Nicole ...

and

Rikke Olsen Rikke Olsen Siegemund (born 19 April 1975) is a retired badminton player from Denmark. She won the mixed doubles title at the World Junior Championships in 1992 and the girls' doubles title at the European Junior Championships in 1993. Born in ...

of Denmark in the round of 16. She won the bronze medal at the 2008 European Badminton Championships. In 2008, Schenk competed in the Beijing Olympics. She narrowly lost her first round match against

Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guine ...

Maria Kristin Yulianti Maria Kristin Yulianti (born 25 June 1985) is an Indonesian badminton player. She is a bronze medalist in Badminton at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's singles, women's singles at the 2008 Olympics. Career 2004 Yulianti played in some s ...

who later won the bronze medal. Schenk nearly reached a bronze medal in the World Championship in Hyderabad in women's singles but lost to French

Pi Hongyan Pi Hongyan (; born 25 January 1979) is a former Chinese badminton player, who later represented 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 inte ...

in the final set, 19:21. It would have been another medal for German women after the shared bronze medals of

Xu Huaiwen Huaiwen Xu (; born 2 August 1975) is a German badminton player. Born in Guiyang, Guizhou, China, she decided to play for Germany because the Chinese thought that she was too short to play professional world badminton.Said by David Mercer/ Gill ...

and

Petra Overzier Petra Overzier (born 8 March 1982) is a German professional badminton Badminton is a racquet sport played using racquets to hit a shuttlecock across a net. Although it may be played with larger teams, the most common forms of the game ar ...

in 2006. In

2010 European Badminton Championships The 2010 European Badminton Championships were the 22nd tournament of the European Badminton Championships. They were held in Manchester, England, from April 14 to April 18, 2010, and they were organised by the Badminton Europe and the Badminton E ...

, Schenk beat 1st seed

to proceed to the final. She settled for silver after losing to

Tine Rasmussen Tine Baun (née Rasmussen; born 21 July 1979) is a Danish former badminton player. Most notably, she won the All England Open Badminton Championships women's singles title three times in 2008, 2010, and 2013 – the last of these being her final ...

in three sets. In 2012 European Badminton Championships, she lost to Baun again in the final. At the

2012 Summer Olympics The 2012 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012) was an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. The first event, the ...

, she reached the last 16, being beaten by

Ratchanok Intanon Ratchanok Intanon ( th, รัชนก อินทนนท์, , ; born 5 February 1995) is a Thai badminton player who became the first Thai to become No.1 in women's singles. She is known for her relaxed hitting motion and light footwork, w ...

. Schenk became an independent professional player in June, having severed ties with the German Badminton Association (DBV). Despite being left in the lurch, Schenk showed great determination to reach the Indonesian Open final in June. She did that with just one training session. In the first inaugural edition of the Indian Badminton League, held from 14 August 2013 to 31 August, Schenk joined Pune Pistons with a reported salary of $90,000. Schenk also signed a contract with the Xiamen Tefang Badminton Club to compete in the 2013–2014 China Badminton Super League. She was beaten by Sun Yu from Guangzhou Huizhou Weihao 11–8 and 11–5, and later at the end of the year she was beaten by

Wang Yihan Wang Yihan (born 18 January 1988) is a retired Chinese professional badminton player and former women's singles world champion and Olympic silver medalist. Wang started her career with her coach Wang Pengren at only nine years of age. She was ...

12–10, 6–11, 11–6. In early 2014 in the China Badminton Super League, Schenk was beaten by

Wang Shixian Wang Shixian (; ; born 13 February 1990) is a retired Chinese professional badminton player. She is a former World No. 1 in women's singles. Career Wang Shixian was admitted into Chinese Junior National Team in 2005 and was soon promoted to ...

representing Jiangsu, 11–5, 11–5. Schenk had announced on her website earlier in the year that she was intent on getting out of the top ten so that she could avoid paying fines for missing Superseries Premier events. She retired the first round in 2014 Malaysia Super Series Premier against

Minatsu Mitani is a retired Japanese badminton player who is a singles specialist from NTT East badminton club. She competed at the 2014 Asian Games. Mitani expressed her desire to retire after losing in the second round of 73rd All Japan Comprehensive Champ ...

and had a walkover to

Beiwen Zhang Beiwen Zhang (; born 12 July 1990) is a Chinese-born American badminton player who is a singles specialist. Career Zhang was born in China and moved to Singapore at the age of 13 in 2003 and played with the Singapore National Team until 2012. ...

2014 All England Super Series Premier The 2014 All England Super Series Premier was the third super series tournament of the 2014 BWF Super Series. The tournament took place in Birmingham, England from 4 to 9 March 2014 and had a total purse of $400,000. A 2014 All England Super Ser ...

. She told the ''Rheinische Post'' that she would be working as a personal trainer, that she was studying at the University of Cologne, and that she was writing a book. At the end of April, she lost to Liu Xin in China Badminton League.

Achievements

BWF World Championships

''Women's singles''

European Championships

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

European Junior Championships

''Girls' singles'' ''Girls' doubles''

BWF Superseries

The BWF Superseries, which was launched on 14 December 2006 and implemented in 2007, was a series of elite badminton tournaments, sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation (BWF). BWF Superseries levels were Superseries and Superseries Premier. A season of Superseries consisted of twelve tournaments around the world that had been introduced since 2011. Successful players were invited to the Superseries Finals, which were held at the end of each year. ''Women's singles'' : Superseries tournament : Superseries Premier tournament : Superseries Finals tournament

BWF Grand Prix

The BWF Grand Prix had two levels, the Grand Prix and Grand Prix Gold. It was a series of badminton tournaments sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation (BWF) and played between 2007 and 2017. The World Badminton Grand Prix was sanctioned by the International Badminton Federation from 1983 to 2006. ''Women's singles'' ''Women's doubles'' : BWF Grand Prix Gold tournament : BWF & IBF Grand Prix tournament

BWF International Challenge/Series

''Women's singles'' ''Women's doubles'' : BWF International Challenge tournament : BWF International Series tournament

Record against selected opponents

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

References

External links

Pictures of Juliane Schenk at Badmintonfotos.de
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