Xie Xingfang

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Xie Xingfang (Chinese谢杏芳/谢杏芳, Pinyin Xie Xingfang; born January 8, 1981 in Guangzhou, People's Republic of China) is a former Chinese badminton player.

Career

Her first big title was winning the women's doubles competition of the World Youth Championship 1998, together with Zhang Jiewen. After she was then in the Chinese national team, it became the single player. Here it is the "quasi " link between the generation of players such as Gong Ruina, Zhou Mi and Zhang Ning on the one hand and such great talents such as Wang Lin, who has already won with 17, the China Open.

In the badminton tournament at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, in which Xie Xingfang is set at position 1, they started with a bye in the first round. The first game against Cheng Shao -chieh of Taiwan ended with a two- set victory for Xie Xingfang. In the second round, it went against the White Russian Olga Conon, which was again defeated with 2-0 records. In the quarterfinals, Xie Xingfang played 21:19 and 22:20 against Germany for launching Xu Huaiwen. They only lost in the final on August 16, 2008 in three sets ( 12:21, 21:10, 18:21 ) against Zhang Ning, who was able to repeat their success of Athens.

Trivia

On 13 December 2010 Xie Xingfang has its long-standing partner, the Olympic champion in men's singles in badminton, Lin Dan in Guangzhou, China married ..

Achievements

All achievements listed here Xie won the women's singles.