Pi Hongyan

Pi Hongyan
File:Hongyan Pi Londres 2012.jpg
Personal information
Birth name	皮红艳
Country	France
Born	(1979-01-25) January 25, 1979 Chongqing
Handedness	Right
Women Singles
Current ranking	9 (May 13, 2010)
Medal record Representing France Women's badminton World Championships 2009 Hyderabad Singles European Championships 2004 Geneva Singles 2008 Herning Singles 2010 Manchester Singles
BWF profile

This is a Chinese name; the family name is Pi.

Pi Hongyan (simplified Chinese: 皮红艳; traditional Chinese: 皮紅艷; pinyin: Pí Hóngyàn) (born 25 January 1979 in Chongqing, China) is a female badminton player competing for 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 intense competition to gain positions on its national team, and because of the elite status within the sport that such a player is likely to hold in other badminton playing countries. Her titles include women's singles at the U.S. (1999), German (2001, 2002), Bitburger (2001, 2002), Portugal (2001, 2003), Croatian (2004), French (2003, 2004, 2005), Dutch (2004), Swiss (2005), Denmark (2005), Singapore (2006) and India (2009) Opens. At the biennial European Championships she was a silver medalist in 2004 and a bronze medalist in 2008 and 2010. She was runner-up to China's Xie Xingfang at the prestigious All-England Championships in 2007. Pi has been at least a quarter-finalist in each of the last six consecutive BWF World Championships (2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011) with a bronze medal in 2009, as well as a quarter-finalist at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games.

See also

• Chinese diaspora in France

External links

• Official Website of Pi Hongyan