Cheng Shao-chieh

Cheng Shao-chieh
File:Cheng Shao Chieh.jpg Cheng Shao-chieh in 2011
Personal information
Birth name	鄭韶婕
Country	Republic of China
Born	(1986-01-04) January 4, 1986
Height	1.58 m (5 ft 2 in)
Weight	47 kg (104 lb; 7.4 st)
Handedness	Right
Women's Singles
Highest ranking	7 (September 8, 2011)
Current ranking	13 (June 21, 2012 )
Medal record Representing Chinese Taipei Badminton World Championships 2011 London Women's Singles 2005 Anaheim Women's Singles World Junior Championships 2004 Vancouver Women's Singles
BWF profile

This is a Chinese name; the family name is Cheng.

Cheng Shao-Chieh (traditional Chinese: 鄭韶婕; simplified Chinese: 郑韶婕; pinyin: Zhèng Sháojié; Wade–Giles: Cheng Shao-chieh; born 4 January 1986 in Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China) is a female badminton player from Republic of China.

Cheng played badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics for the Republic of China as Chinese Taipei. In women's singles, she defeated Ling Wan Ting of Hong Kong and Jun Jae-youn of Korea in the first two rounds. In the quarterfinals, Cheng lost to Gong Ruina of China 11-3, 11-3. Later that year, she played in the Badminton World Junior 2004, held in Vancouver, British Columbia of Canada where she won the Gold title in Women's Singles. She also participated in the 2005 World Championships in Anaheim, California, USA making it to the Semifinals and taking a game from the eventual champion, Xie Xingfang. She achieved a world championship silver medal in 2011 in London. She could qualify for the final winning all her matches before in straight games. In the quarterfinal she beat, at that time world number 1, Wang Shixian from China and in the semifinal she outclassed Juliane Schenk from Germany to 18 and 6.

References

• European results
• tournamentsoftware.com
• sports-reference.com