Tian Qing (; born 19 August 1986) is a Chinese

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player specializing in doubles.

Career

Tian Qing started to practice badminton with her father Tian Jianyi who also a badminton coach in Anhua Sports School at aged 7. In 1998, she moved to Hunan Province Sports School and in 2004, she competed at the World Junior Championships and win gold in the girls' doubles event teamed-up with Yu Yang. In 2006, she joined the national team. In her early career at the national team, she was partnered with Pan Pan, and they participated in the 2009 World Championships, and 2010 Uber Cup. In 2010, she competed at the 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games in the mixed team and women's doubles event partnered with Zhao Yunlei, where she won two gold medals respectively. At the same year, she also competed in the mixed doubles event partnered with Tao Jiaming, and they were won the titles at the

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and China Open. She also won the women's doubles title at the Swiss Open with Yu Yang and a gold medal at the

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with Pan Pan. In 2011, she set to teamed-up with Zhao Yunlei, and they managed to win the women's doubles title at the

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and Singapore Open. They also won silver medal at the 2011 BWF World Championships and ensure to compete at the

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In London 2012, she and Zhao won the women's doubles gold after outplayed Mizuki Fujii and

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in the final. Compete as the number 2 seed, they can reach the knock-uot stage after place second in the group stage lose a match to Danish pair Christinna Pedersen and

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. They also won the women's doubles title in

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, All England, and Hong Kong Open. In 2013, she won the women's doubles title at the Malaysia Open teamed-up with Bao Yixin. She also won the Singapore Open and became the runner-up at the

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with Zhao Yunlei. In 2014, she and Zhao won the Superseries Premier title at the Indonesia Open. They won the title without even having to hold a racket in the final round, following their opponent

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withdrew from the match after suffered an injury. In August 2014, she and Zhao won the gold medal at the

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in Copenhagen after beat their compatriots

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and Yu Yang. At the end of the 2014 BWF Superseries, they qualified to compete at the Dubai World Superseries Finals. They finally became the runner-up after lose to Japanese pair Misaki Matsutomo and Ayaka Takahashi in the final. In 2015, she defend her title at the Indonesia Open with different partner ( Tang Jinhua). She also defended her title at the Hong Kong Open and

with Zhao Yunlei. In 2016, Tian who ranked No. 3 in the world partnered with Zhao Yunlei, was not listed on the player rooster to compete at the 2016 Rio Olympics. Their names replaced by Luo Ying and Luo Yu who are currently ranked No. 7. Zhao who plays in two sectors and the match schedule into consideration to

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. In September 2016, she reported her retirement in the Chinese Press.

Personal life

Tian is married to Zhang Nan in November 2018.

Achievements

Olympic Games

''Women's doubles''

BWF World Championships

''Women's doubles''

Asian Games

''Women's doubles''

Asian Championships

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

Summer Universiade

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

World Junior Championships

''Girls' doubles''

BWF Superseries

The BWF Superseries, which was launched on 14 December 2006 and implemented in 2007, is a series of elite badminton tournaments, sanctioned by the

Badminton World Federation The Badminton World Federation (BWF) is the international governing body for the sport of badminton recognised by the International Olympic Committee (IOC). It was founded in 1934 as the International Badminton Federation (IBF) with nine member ...

(BWF). BWF Superseries levels are Superseries and Superseries Premier. A season of Superseries consists of twelve tournaments around the world that have been introduced since 2011. Successful players are invited to the Superseries Finals, which are held at the end of each year. ''Women's doubles'' ''Mixed doubles'' : BWF Superseries Finals tournament : BWF Superseries Premier tournament :

BWF Superseries The BWF Super Series was a series of Grade 2 badminton tournaments, sanctioned by Badminton World Federation (BWF). It was launched on December 14, 2006 and implemented in 2007. Since 2011, the Super Series includes two levels of tournament, S ...

tournament

BWF Grand Prix

The BWF Grand Prix had two levels, the

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. It was a series of badminton tournaments sanctioned by the

(BWF) which was held from 2007 to 2017. ''Women's doubles'' : BWF Grand Prix Gold tournament :

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tournament

BWF International Challenge/Series

''Women's doubles'' :

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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. ...

tournament

References

External links

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