Chen Yufei

Quick Facts

Full Name	Chen Yufei
Occupation	Badminton Player
Date Of Birth	Mar 1, 1998(1998-03-01)
Age	26
Birthplace	Hangzhou
Country	China
Birth City	Zhejiang
Horoscope	Pisces

Chen Yufei Biography

Chen Yufei is one of the most popular and richest Badminton Player who was born on March 1, 1998 in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China. Chen Yufei (Chinese: Chen Yu Fei born on 1 March 1998) is a Chinese badminton player. She took home one of the singles girls’ junior title during the 2016 Asian as well as at the World Junior Championships. The same time, Chen clinched her first senior title at the 2016 Macau Open Grand Prix Gold. Chen was named an 2017 Eddy Choong Most Promising Player of the Year. She sets a new career top position as the world’s number one in the BWF World ranking in 17 December 2019.

She made it to the finals of the her 2017 Swiss Open Grand Prix Gold and had the choice of finishing second place after defeating the same opponent she defeated in the Macau Open final in 2016, Chen Xiaoxin. At the 2017, BWF World Championships, 19 year old Chen took part as the 9th seeded player in the event. After beating Pai Yu-po who was the lower placed Chinese Taipei’s player, in the first round, Chen scheduled her match with most favored Akane Yamaguchi. She dominated her way to victory winning 21-18, 21-19 win that shocked the world. It wasn’t over but she was able to beat another better seeded player Ratchanok Intanon, in the quarter-finals. He was the world champion after three games. She was confident of winning her winning her first ever medal at the world’s top competition. In the final she was defeated by P. V. Sindhu and had to be content with a bronze medal. Due to her impressive performance, she was awarded the chance to participate the year-end the 2017 BWF Super Series Masters Finals. The group phase saw her fell against Tai Tzu- ying (1-2) however she prevailed in the semifinals against Sung J. Hyun (2-0) and Ratchanok Intanon (2-1) that meant she got her spot in the semifinals. In the semifinals, however she fell to P. V. Sindhu in two straight matches.

With all her success in 1st half of the year, she was considered as China’s best contender for gold in 2019 BWF World Championships in her category. She started well, winning against Pornpawee Chochuwong in round 1, Michelle Li in 2nd round in 3 games. In the quarter-final, she was tested severely by Danish Mia Blichfeldt who once appeared to create an upset by leading 15–12 against her in the decider, but Chen’s persistence lead her way to the victory and assured her of second medal in this Grade 1 event. In the semifinal her opponent was P. V. Sindhu who had outplayed her in the 2017 World Championships. Chen again proved low against Sindhu in World Championships and was defeated with a big margin 7–21, 14–21. Thus, she again settled for a bronze medal. Leaving her disappointments, she returned back very strong and again won series of titles. She won 2019 Fuzhou China Open again, by beating same opponent from the last year, Nozomi Okuhara but this time with tougher opposition. After beating Ratchanok Intanon in the final, she won her 6th World tour title by winning the Hong Kong open. Going into the 2019 BWF World Tour Finals as the best title winning contender, In the group stage, she downed all her opponents P. V. Sindhu (2–1), Akane Yamaguchi (2–0) & He Bingjiao (2–0) & reached the semifinal. She was drawn with Yamaguchi yet again and she displayed a very dominant performance to reach the final. In the final, she showed a great fighting spirit to beat Tai Tzu-ying after being a game down & won the title 12–21, 21–12, 21–17. With her emphatic 7 titles in the year, she became another player from China to become World no. 1 player, the last time China had World’s top player in Women’s singles was in 2015 (Li Xuerui).

2019 proved best ever year in Chen Yufei’s career as she earned multiple titles and honour of becoming most dominant player of 2019 in her category. Starting with 2019 All England Open, she defeated Tai Tzu-ying in final, a player she struggled to beat in her last 11 encounters. Chen finally broke that jinx and won her first super 1000 title. After that, she won Swiss Open title following her win against Saena Kawakami in the final clash. She competed in 2019 Badminton Asia Championships as a top seed after defending champion Tai withdrew from the tournament. She made her way to the semifinal and was discomfited by Akane Yamaguchi (1–2), thus claimed the bronze medal. In the 2019 Sudirman Cup, she helped her team in winning the record 11th title, in which she scored a point by defeating Akane Yamaguchi & Japan was crushed in the final with 3–0 tally by China. Her best form wasn’t dipped yet, as she claimed the next title in Australian open by totally outplaying Nozomi Okuhara in the final with very one-sided scoreline 21–15, 21–3. She claimed Thailand open title victory by winning against Ratchanok Intanon.

The BWF World Tour, announced on March 19th, 2017 and launched in the year the year 2018, is a set of tournaments for elite badminton, approved by the Badminton World Federation (BWF). This year’s BWF World Tour are divided into six levels: World Tour Finals, Super 1000, Super 750, Super 500, Super 300 (part of the HSBC World Tour) and Super 100, which is part of the HSBC World Tour. BWF Tour Super 100.

Chen Yufei Net Worth

Chen Yufei is one of the richest Badminton Player from China. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Chen Yufei 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

The BWF Grand Prix has two levels: it is the BWF Grand Prix and Grand Prix Gold. It is a string of tournaments for badminton sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation (BWF) since 2007.

Chen Yufei began playing at an international competitions in 2013 when she was only 15 years old. She was awarded the silver medal at the Asian Junior Championships after beaten by Akane Yamaguchi in the final. She was runner-up at the German Junior International event after being defeated by Qin Jinjing during the championship. In 2015, she made it to the finals of the China International but lost to Nozomi Okuhara. In her first Grand Prix Gold final was at the 2015 Indonesian Masters, in which she reached the finals after astonishing a number of seeded players, but fell to partner He Bingjiao. She took home the most important junior titles: the Asian Junior Championships after beating Gregoria Mariska Tunjung in the final and she won the BWF World Junior Championships by defeating Pornpawee Chochuwong in the final. She also took home the 2016 Macau Open Grand Prix Gold at the end of the year by beating Chen Xiaoxin.

She contested the 2018 German Open final but lost to Akane Yamaguchi. She won the silver medal at the 2018 Badminton Asia Championships losing to Tai Tzu- ying in 2 games. She falled to her 9th consecutive defeat against Tai Tzu-ying in the final of Indonesia Open, in which she took the opening game but that wasn’t sufficient to beat Tai and lost the next two. In the World Championships, she failed to cross the quarter-final after being downed by Akane Yamaguchi, a player Chen defeated last year in straight games. Akane Yamaguchi again proved difficult for Chen to crack, this time at the Asian games where she lost to her in quarters. In her second Super – 1000 final at the China Open, which is the highest level of World tour events in badminton, she lost to the reigning world champion, Carolina Marín in straight games. At the 2018 Fuzhou China Open, a Super 750 event, she finally broke her jinx of losing in the finals after defeating Nozomi Okuhara tamely with 21–10, 21–16, and thus won her first ever World tour title. She again qualified for taking part in the season ending championships, this time renamed as the “World Tour Finals” which was held in her home country China. In the 1st match of group stage against Ratchanok Intanon, she injured herself in the deciding game and lost the match. She wasn’t recovered from that yet but she played the 2nd match against Canadian Michelle Li & again lost. In the final group match, she twisted her ankle in the very early stage of 1st game which forced her to retire and her overall campaign ended.

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Facts & Trivia

Chen Ranked on the list of most popular Badminton Player. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in China. Chen Yufei celebrates birthday on March 1 of every year.