Yip Pui Yin

Yip Pui Yin (Template:Zh; born 6 August 1987) is a badminton player from Hong Kong.

Career

Yip played at the 2005 World Badminton Championships in Anaheim. In the women's singles event she reached the third round after beating Laura Molina of Spain and Kanako Yonekura (11th seed) in round one and round two respectively. In the third round she was beaten by the 1st seed and reigning world champion Zhang Ning of China.

She won the silver medal in the 2006 Asian Games after losing to fellow Hong Kong player Wang Chen in the final. In 2007, she played at the World Championships and was defeated in the third round by Zhu Lin, of China, 9–21, 21–16, 14–21. Yip made her first appearance at the 2008 Summer Olympics. In 2009, she won the gold medal in the 2009 East Asian Games when her opponent Zhou Mi retired halfway through the deciding set. She won 15–21, 21–13, 17–10.

At the 2012 London Olympics, Yip won against eighth seed Sung Ji-hyun, of South Korea, in the group stage. Then Yip went through to the final eight of the women's singles in badminton after she beat France's 16th seed Pi Hongyan by two games to one, winning 13–21, 21–13, 21–16. Yip faced China's Li Xuerui, who beat her two games to one. Her performance equalled the best performance by a Hong Kong shuttler at the Olympic Games.

Achievements

Asian Games

Women's singles

Year	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result
2006	Aspire Hall 3, Doha, Qatar	Template:Flagicon Wang Chen	14–21, 20–22	Silver Silver
2010	Tianhe Gymnasium, Guangzhou, China	Template:Flagicon Wang Shixian	14–21, 14–21	Bronze Bronze

Asian Championships

Women's singles

Year	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result
2008	Bandaraya Stadium, Johor Bahru, Malaysia	Template:Flagicon Wang Lin	14–21, 18–21	Bronze Bronze

East Asian Games

Women's singles

Year	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result
2009	Queen Elizabeth Stadium, Hong Kong	Template:Flagicon Zhou Mi	15–21, 21–13, 17–10 retired	Gold Gold

Asian Junior Championships

Girls' singles

Year	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result
2005	Tennis Indoor Senayan, Jakarta, Indonesia	Template:Flagicon Wang Lin	5–11, 7–11	Bronze Bronze

Girls' doubles

Year	Venue	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2005	Tennis Indoor Senayan, Jakarta, Indonesia	Template:Flagicon Lam Sin Ying	Template:Flagicon Ha Jung-eun Template:Flagicon Hong Soo-jung	7–15, 7–15	Bronze Bronze

BWF Grand Prix

The BWF Grand Prix had two levels, the BWF Grand Prix and Grand Prix Gold. It was a series of badminton tournaments sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation (BWF) which was held from 2007 to 2017. The World Badminton Grand Prix sanctioned by International Badminton Federation (IBF) from 1983 to 2006.

Women's singles

Year	Tournament	Opponent	Score	Result
2006	Macau Open	Template:Flagicon Judith Meulendijks	21–18, 10–21, 10–21	Template:Silver2 Runner-up
2009	Australian Open	Template:Flagicon Maria Febe Kusumastuti	18–21, 19–21	Template:Silver2 Runner-up
2010	Malaysia Grand Prix Gold	Template:Flagicon Zhou Mi	21–16, 14–21, 21–19	Template:Gold1 Winner
2013	Canada Open	Template:Flagicon Nichaon Jindapon	18–21, 16–21	Template:Silver2 Runner-up

  BWF Grand Prix Gold tournament

  BWF & IBF Grand Prix tournament

Record against selected opponents

Record against year-end Finals finalists, World Championships semi-finalists, and Olympic quarter-finalists. Accurate as of 17 December 2021.

Players	Matches	Results		Difference
		Won	Lost
Template:Flagicon Huang Chia-chi	1	1	0	+1
Template:Flagicon Petya Nedelcheva	3	2	1	+1
Template:Flagicon Chen Yufei	2	0	2	–2
Template:Flagicon He Bingjiao	4	0	4	–4
Template:Flagicon Li Xuerui	10	0	10	–10
Template:Flagicon Lu Lan	4	1	3	–2
Template:Flagicon Wang Lin	8	3	5	–2
Template:Flagicon Wang Shixian	10	0	10	–10
Template:Flagicon Wang Xin	2	0	2	–2
Template:Flagicon Wang Yihan	9	3	6	–3
Template:Flagicon Xie Xingfang	4	1	3	–2
Template:Flagicon Zhang Yiman	1	0	1	–1
Template:Flagicon Zhang Ning	5	1	4	–3

Players	Matches	Results		Difference
		Won	Lost
Template:Flagicon Zhu Lin	5	2	3	–1
Template:Flagicon Cheng Shao-chieh	4	3	1	+2
Template:Flagicon Tai Tzu-ying	10	1	9	–8
Template:Flagicon Tine Baun	5	1	4	–3
Template:Flagicon Tracey Hallam	3	2	1	+1
Template:Flagicon Pi Hongyan	6	2	4	–2
Template:Flagicon Juliane Schenk	8	3	5	–2
Template:Flagicon Xu Huaiwen	2	1	1	0
Template:Flagicon Wang Chen	1	0	1	–1
Template:Flagicon Zhou Mi	4	2	2	0
Template:Flagicon Saina Nehwal	11	2	9	–7
Template:Flagicon P. V. Sindhu	4	0	4	–4
Template:Flagicon Lindaweni Fanetri	2	1	1	0

Players	Matches	Results		Difference
		Won	Lost
Template:Flagicon Maria Kristin Yulianti	2	1	1	0
Template:Flagicon Minatsu Mitani	3	1	2	–1
Template:Flagicon Nozomi Okuhara	6	1	5	–4
Template:Flagicon Akane Yamaguchi	4	0	4	–4
Template:Flagicon Wong Mew Choo	1	0	1	–1
Template:Flagicon Mia Audina	1	0	1	–1
Template:Flagicon An Se-young	1	0	1	–1
Template:Flagicon Bae Yeon-ju	5	2	3	–1
Template:Flagicon Sung Ji-hyun	11	3	8	–5
Template:Flagicon Carolina Marín	5	0	5	–5
Template:Flagicon Porntip Buranaprasertsuk	7	3	4	–1
Template:Flagicon Ratchanok Intanon	17	3	14	–11

External links

• BWF player profile
• YIP Pui Yin profile for the 2009 East Asian Games
• YIP Pui Yin profile for the 2012 Olympic Games