Kristen Tsai (born 11 July 1995) is a Taiwanese born Canadian

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. She is the women's doubles champion at the

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, fifth time Pan Am Champion winning the women's singles title in 2012, and then the women's doubles title in 2018, 2019, 2021, and 2022.

Career

Tsai became the first Canadian ever to make in to the quarterfinals at the World Junior Championships. Lived in

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, she trained at the ClearOne badminton club, and majored in criminology at the

Simon Fraser University Simon Fraser University (SFU) is a Public university, public research university in British Columbia, Canada. It maintains three campuses in Greater Vancouver, respectively located in Burnaby (main campus), Surrey, British Columbia, Surrey, and ...

. She won her first Pan Am Championships title in 2012 in the women's singles event, and after that Tsai spent a full 4 years – between the 2013 and 2017 Canada Opens – away from international competition. In 2018, she competed at the

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in Gold Coast, Australia. She won gold medal at the

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in the women's doubles partnered with Rachel Honderich, and a silver medal in the mixed doubles with Nyl Yakura in 2019 Lima. In 2021, she captured her fourth Pan Am Championships title by winning the women's doubles event partnered with Rachel Honderich. In June 2021, Tsai was named to Canada's Olympic team. In December 2022, Tsai suffered an ACL and MCL rupture while competing in the S/J league in Japan. She had ACL reconstruction surgery in March 2023.

Achievements

Pan American Games

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

Pan Am Championships

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

Pan Am Junior Championships

''Girls' doubles''

BWF International Challenge/Series (7 titles, 5 runners-up)

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

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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* * * * * * * 1995 births Living people Badminton players from Vancouver Taiwanese emigrants to Canada Canadian female badminton players Badminton players at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic badminton players for Canada Badminton players at the 2018 Commonwealth Games Badminton players at the 2022 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games competitors for Canada Badminton players at the 2019 Pan American Games Pan American Games gold medalists for Canada Pan American Games silver medalists for Canada Pan American Games gold medalists in badminton Pan American Games silver medalists in badminton Medalists at the 2019 Pan American Games Sportswomen from British Columbia 21st-century Canadian sportswomen Long stubs with short prose {{Canada-badminton-bio-stub