Wendy Chen Hsuan-yu (

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: ; born 1 June 1993) is an Australian

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 has represented her country at the 2016 Rio and 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games.

Career

Badminton was the family sport and all of Chen's family played. She excelled in her high school years and represented her school in both junior and senior Badminton events. She then turned professional and made her International debut for badminton in 2012. At the

2016 Rio Olympics ) , nations = 207 (including IOA and EOR teams) , athletes = 11,238 , events = 306 in 28 sports (41 disciplines) , opening = 5 August 2016 , closing = 21 August 2016 , opened_by = Vice President Michel Temer , cauldron = Vanderlei Cordeiro de ...

, Chen made her Olympic debut representing Australia. Her opponents were Thailand's

Porntip Buranaprasertsuk Porntip Buranaprasertsuk ( th, พรทิพย์ บูรณะประเสริฐสุข; born 24 October 1991) is a Thai badminton player. Buranaprasertsuk won her first Superseries title in 2011 India Open on 1 May 2011, becoming ...

and Mauritius'

Kate Foo Kune Kate Jessica Kim Lee Foo Kune (born 29 March 1993) is a badminton player from Mauritius. She began playing badminton in Mauritius at age six. Her first major tournament participation was 2013 BWF World Championships in China, where she lost in ...

and in spite of a good contest she lost to both. In 2017, Chen won the Casa Del Sole Noumea International. In 2018, she represented Australia at the

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in Gold Coast, Australia. In early 2020, she won the women's singles titles at the

Oceania Championships An Oceania Championship is a top level international sports competition between Oceania athletes or sports teams representing their respective countries or professional sports clubs. List of Championships * 49er & 49er FX Oceania Championships ...

in six consecutive years from 2015–2020. Chen played at the

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, and was knocked out in the group stage after finishing second in her group.

Achievements

Oceania Championships

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

BWF International Challenge/Series (1 title, 6 runners-up)

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

BWF International Challenge The BWF International Challenge is a grade 3 and level 1 tournament part of Continental Circuit of BWF tournaments along with International Series (level 2) and Future Series (level 3), sanctioned by Badminton World Federation The Badminton ...

tournament :

BWF International Series The BWF International Series is a grade 3 and level 2 tournament part of Continental Circuit of BWF tournaments along with International Challenge (level 1) and Future Series (level 3), sanctioned by Badminton World Federation (BWF) since 2007. ...

tournament :

BWF Future Series The BWF Future Series is a grade 3 and level 3 tournaments part of Continental Circuit of BWF tournaments along with International Challenge (level 1) and International Series (level 2), sanctioned by Badminton World Federation (BWF) since 2007. ...

tournament

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* * * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Chen, Hsuan-yu 1993 births Living people Sportspeople from Taichung Taiwanese emigrants to Australia Australian people of Taiwanese descent Sportspeople from Brisbane Sportswomen from Queensland Australian female badminton players Badminton players at the 2016 Summer Olympics Badminton players at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic badminton players of Australia Badminton players at the 2018 Commonwealth Games Badminton players at the 2022 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games competitors for Australia People educated at Brisbane State High School 20th-century Australian women 21st-century Australian women