Zheng Yu (; born 7 February 1996) is a Chinese

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player from the Jiangsu province team. She started playing badminton in 2003, claimed the Jiangsu province title in the singles and doubles category in 2006 and 2007, then was selected to join the national team for the first time in 2010. She was part of the national junior team that won the mixed team gold medals at the 2011 Asian and 2012 World Junior Championships. She won her first senior international title at the BWF Super 500 tournament 2020 Malaysia Masters partnered with Li Wenmei.

Career

Starting from 2022, Zheng partnered with

Zhang Shuxian Zhang Shuxian ( zh, 张殊贤; ''Zhāng Shūxián''; born 2 January 2000) is a Chinese badminton player. Career Early career Zhang attended Luzhou Zilu Road School. Later, she was recommended by the city sports school to enter the Sichuan ...

and finished as the runners-up at the All England Open, Malaysia Open and Singapore Open, before finally winning the

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. As a result, the pair qualified for the year-end final. They reached the semi-finals before bowing out to compatriots

Chen Qingchen Chen Qingchen (; born 23 June 1997) is a Chinese badminton player who specializes in doubles. She is an Olympic champion, four-time World Champion, two-time Asian Games gold medalist, and two-time Asian Champion. With partner Jia Yifan, Che ...

and

Jia Yifan Jia Yifan (; ; born 29 June 1997) is a Chinese badminton player and Olympic champion. With partner Chen Qingchen, Jia won silver in women's doubles at the 2020 Summer Olympics and gold in the same event at the 2024 Summer Olympics. Jia won f ...

. In the first half of the 2023 season, Zheng did not win any title with Zhang Shuxian. The duo opened the year by reaching the semi-finals of the BWF Super 1000 tournament, the Malaysia Open, but was stunned by Korean pairing

Baek Ha-na Baek Ha-na (; born 22 September 2000) is a South Korean badminton player who attended Cheongsong Girls' High School. She started playing badminton in 2009 after being recommended by her brother, and was selected to join the national team in 2017 ...

and Lee Yu-lim. Other semi-finals finished were at the All England and the Singapore Opens. Zheng and Zhang also reached the quarter-finals in the

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, and Indonesia Opens. Zheng was also part of the China winning squad in the

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. Their achievement was able to bring them up to the 2nd place in the BWF rankings. In August, Zheng and Zhang finished as semi-finalists in the

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, losing to their compatriots and eventual champions

and

. The defeat exacerbated their head-to-head record over Chen and Jia to 0–6.

Achievements

World Championships

''Women's doubles''

Asian Championships

''Women's doubles''

BWF World Tour (5 titles, 10 runners-up)

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(BWF). The BWF World Tour is divided into levels of World Tour Finals, Super 1000, Super 750, Super 500, Super 300, and the BWF Tour Super 100. ''Women's doubles''

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Zheng, Yu 1996 births Living people Badminton players from Shandong Chinese female badminton players 21st-century Chinese sportswomen Badminton players at the 2018 Asian Games Badminton players at the 2022 Asian Games Asian Games silver medalists for China Asian Games medalists in badminton Medalists at the 2018 Asian Games Medalists at the 2022 Asian Games