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Francesca Autumn Corbett (born June 3, 2005) is an American 
In July, Corbett helped team USA to win gold in the mixed team event at the 2021 Pan Am Junior Championships. She then won gold with Lee in the women's doubles U19 event. She also picked up bronze in the mixed doubles U17 event partnering Li. In September, Corbett and Lee captured their first senior career title at the
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 from Foster City, California
Foster City is a master-planned city located in San Mateo County, California, United States. Foster City is sometimes considered to be part of Silicon Valley for its local industry and its proximity to Silicon Valley cities. There are many n ...
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Career
Corbett has been competing in badminton since she was six. She won gold medals in girls' singles and doubles events for U11, U15 and U17 categories at the Pan Am Junior Championships in 2015, 2017, and 2019 respectively. In late 2019, Corbett and her partnerAllison Lee
Allison Herren Lee is an American attorney and former government official who served as a member of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) from 2019 to 2022.
A member of the Democratic Party, Lee briefly served as acting chair of the SE ...
won the National Adult Championships women's doubles title, becoming the youngest pair to ever be crowned as national champions. She was then chosen to represent the USA's women's team at the 2020 Pan Am Male & Female Cup in February. The team bagged silver after losing to Canada in the final.
2021
In May, Corbett and Lee entered the final of 2021 Pan Am Championships and finished as runners-up. In the following month, she competed in the National Junior Championships. She won gold in the girls' doubles U19 event with Lee, another gold in the mixed doubles U17 event with Samuel Li, as well as a bronze in the girls' singles U19 event.
In July, Corbett helped team USA to win gold in the mixed team event at the 2021 Pan Am Junior Championships. She then won gold with Lee in the women's doubles U19 event. She also picked up bronze in the mixed doubles U17 event partnering Li. In September, Corbett and Lee captured their first senior career title at the Guatemala International
The Guatemala International is an open badminton tournament held in Guatemala. The tournament has been an International Series level in 1997, 1998, 1999, 2003, 2012, 2013, 2016, then in 2009 categorized as Future Series level, and in 2010, 2011, ...
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2022
Corbett was part of the USA's women's team that won gold at the 2022 Pan Am Male & Female Cup in February. In April, she and Lee won a bronze medal at the 2022 Pan Am Championships. In August, they made their World Championships debut at the 2022 World Championships.2023
In April, Corbett and Lee clinched their second silver medal at the 2023 Pan Am Championships. They also reached the final of the Mexican International the following week. In October, the duo made history by becoming the first player or pair from the USA to earn a World Junior Championships medal when they reached the girls' doubles semi-final at the 2023 World Junior Championships. They went on to win silver, falling to Japan's Maya Taguchi and Aya Tamaki in the final.Achievements
Pan Am Championships
''Women's doubles''World Junior Championships
''Girls' doubles''Pan Am Junior Championships
''Girls' doubles''BWF International Challenge/Series (2 titles, 2 runners-up)
''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 (BWF) since 2007.
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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.
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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:Corbett, Francesca 2005 births Living people American female badminton players People from Foster City, California Sportspeople from San Mateo County, California American sportswomen of Chinese descent 21st-century American sportswomen