Xiaodong Sheng (; born 19 January 1998) is a Chinese-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. At the age of 13, Sheng entered the
Tianjin
Tianjin is a direct-administered municipality in North China, northern China on the shore of the Bohai Sea. It is one of the National Central City, nine national central cities, with a total population of 13,866,009 inhabitants at the time of the ...
provincial team, and selected to join the Chinese national youth team in 2011.
At the 2013 Chinese National Junior Championships, he clinched two titles, by winning the boys' singles and doubles event. After retiring from the national youth team, Sheng entered Kawasaki International Badminton Club trained by Li Mao.
In his career, he won four international titles, namely
Giraldilla International
The Giraldilla International is an international badminton tournament, which is organized as an open championship of Cuba. The competition is held annually since 2000 and is now a young supraregional Badminton Championship. The organizer was the Cu ...
in 2018,
Silicon Valley
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and
India International Challenge
The India International Challenge is an international badminton tournament, which is held annually in India. During its first two editions, it was a domestic tournament. Since 2010, it became an international tournament with the grading of Inter ...
in 2019, and
Iran Fajr International The Iran Fajr International in badminton is an international open held in Tehran, Iran and a part of the Fajr decade festival. This tournament is one of the oldest tournament in the Western Asia which was formerly known as Ten Days of Dawn in comme ...
in 2020.
Achievements
BWF International Challenge/Series (6 titles, 2 runners-up)
''Men's singles''
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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
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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
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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
References
External links
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Living people
1998 births
Badminton players from Tianjin
Chinese male badminton players
Canadian male badminton players
Chinese emigrants to Canada
Naturalized citizens of Canada
Canadian sportspeople of Chinese descent
21st-century Canadian sportsmen