The 2009 BWF World Championships was the 17th tournament of the World Badminton Championships. It was held at the

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, from 10 to 16 August 2009. Following the results of the women's singles.

Seeds

# Zhou Mi ''(quarter-final)'' # Wang Lin ''(semi-final)'' # Tine Rasmussen ''(quarter-final)'' #

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 w ...

''(third round)'' #

Xie Xingfang Xie Xingfang (born September 8, 1981) is a retired Chinese badminton player from Guangzhou, Guangdong. She is a former two-time world champion for women's singles, and former women's singles World No. 1. Her first big title was in girls' dou ...

''(final)'' #

Saina Nehwal Saina Nehwal (; born 17 March 1990) is an Indian badminton player. A former world no. 1, she has won 24 international titles, which includes ten Superseries titles. Although she reached the world's 2nd in 2009, it was only in 2015 that she was ...

''(quarter-final)'' #

Lu Lan Lu Lan (; born 2 May 1987) is a badminton player from 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. In 2007, she won the Denmark Super Se ...

(champion) #

Pi Hongyan Pi Hongyan ( zh, s=皮红艳, t=皮紅艷, p=Pí Hóngyàn; 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 emig ...

''(semi-final)'' # Wang Chen ''(third round)'' #

Petya Nedelcheva Petya Nedelcheva (; born 30 July 1983) is a Bulgarian badminton player. She was born in Stara Zagora, Bulgaria. At the Bulgarian National Badminton Championships she won more than 20 titles. Career A right-handed Nedelcheva became a professi ...

''(third round)'' #

Juliane Schenk Juliane Schenk (born 26 November 1982) is a German badminton 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 N ...

''(quarter-final)'' #

Hwang Hye-youn Hwang Hye-youn (; born April 3, 1985, in Pocheon, Gyeonggi Province) is a retired female badminton player from South Korea. Hwang started playing badminton at 7, at her local elementary school. Hwang who educated at the Pocheon High School, com ...

''(third round)'' #

Yip Pui Yin Yip Pui Yin (; born 6 August 1987) is a badminton player from Hong Kong. Career Yip played at the 2005 World Badminton Championships in Anaheim. In the women's singles event she reached the third round after beating Laura Molina of Spain an ...

''(third round)'' #

Wong Mew Choo Datin Wong Mew Choo (born 1 May 1983) is a Malaysian former badminton singles player. Career She first came to prominence in the 2003 SEA Games badminton women's singles, where she won the gold medal, along the way beating Singapore's Li ...

''(second round)'' #

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 ...

''(third round)'' #

Judith Meulendijks Judith Meulendijks (born 26 September 1978, Helmond) is a former badminton player from the Netherlands. Career Meulendijks started playing badminton at the BC Phoenix in her hometown and then she went to BC Geldrop. In her junior career, she won ...

''(second round)''

Main stage

Section 1

Section 2

Section 3

Section 4

Final stage

External links

Results
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