Jung Kyung Eun


Character Introduction

Jung Kyung-Eun is a South Korean female badminton player.

In 2007, Jung won the second place in mixed team and women’s doubles (with Yoo Shing-young) at the World Junior Badminton Championships in Kuala Lumpur.

In 2010, she represented South Korea at the Uber Cup in Kuala Lumpur, where she helped the national team win the title. In the same year, she and Yoo Seok-young won the Women’s Doubles title at the Badminton Korea Golden Grand Prix, the first WBF Grand Prix title of her career.

In December 2011, she won the Women’s Doubles title at the Macau Badminton Grand Prix Gold with Kim Ha Na, and in the same month, she won the Mixed Doubles runner-up title at the Korean Badminton Grand Prix Gold with Kim Ki Jung.

In March, 2012, Jung Kyung-yeon and Kim Ha-na won the second place in women’s doubles of German Open Badminton Championships.

On the morning of July 31, 2012, the Danish duo of Camilla Rütter Juhl/Kristina Petersen from group d defeated the Chinese duo of Tian Qing/Zhao Yunlei (Zhao was struck in the eye by a badminton ball during the match) in the women’s badminton doubles group stage of the 2012 Summer Olympics, and (Tian/Zhao) formed the second team of the group; because (Tian Qing/Zhao Yunlei) were unable to win the group first place, which could have led to the two teams Chinese athletes to meet each other in advance before the final, so the other team in Group a, the world’s top-ranked Chinese pair Yu Yang/Wang Xiaoli, went so far as to serve the ball out of bounds for both China and Korea during their noon match, with the ball going back and forth no more than four times during the first set; Korea’s team coach, Sung Han-kook, protested to the umpire against China’s apparent intentional point loss, and the head of the umpiring panel, Thorsten Berg, even walked onto the court in person, to Thorsten Berg, the head referee, even came into the court to remind the Chinese players to face it seriously. In the end, China lost 14-21, 11-21 to Zheng Jingyin/Kim Ha Na, and the crowd booed loudly; although the Korean team protested against the Chinese team, the Korean team’s established tactic was to have the two Korean players meet in the quarterfinals to ensure that a pair of them would make it to the quarterfinals. Eventually China, South Korea, Indonesia four groups of athletes were removed by the International Badminton Federation.

On August 14, the Korean Badminton Association decided to penalize the involved Ha Jeong-eun, Kim Min-jeong, Kim Ha-na and Jeong Kyung-yin by banning them from participating in any domestic and international badminton tournaments for the next two years.

In October 2015, Jung Kyung-yin and Shin Sung-chan competed in the Danish Badminton Premier Superseries, winning the adult international tournament and her first premier superseries women’s doubles title of her badminton career after her opponent withdrew in the women’s doubles final.

In August 2016, representing South Korea at the Olympic Games badminton tournament in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, she and Shin Seung-chan were seeded No. 5 by the tournament for the women’s doubles event; they won the women’s doubles Olympic bronze medal in the bronze medal match by sweeping the No. 2 seed of the tournament, Tang Yuanjian/Yu Yang of China, 2-0 (21-8, 21-17).

Equipment Used

AEROBITE;  NANOFLARE 700;  JETSPEED S 10;  HYPERNANO X 900;  SHB65ZMEX Momota;  sh-p9200 dg/ef/dc;  SH8500

Major Achievements

  • 2022 Korea Open Badminton Women’s Doubles Quarterfinals
  • 2019 Hyderabad Badminton Open Women’s Doubles Champion
  • 2019 Denmark Badminton Open Women’s Doubles Champion
  • 2019 Malaysia Open Badminton Women’s Doubles quarterfinals
  • 2019 Swiss Open Badminton Women’s Doubles Champion
  • 2018 Korea Badminton Masters Women’s Doubles Champion
  • 2017 Denmark Badminton Premier Superseries Women’s Doubles Quarterfinals
  • 2017 Sudirman Cup Mixed Team Champion
  • 2017 Singapore Badminton Premier Superseries Women’s Doubles Quarterfinals
  • 2017 Badminton India Premier Superseries Women’s Doubles Quarterfinals
  • 2017 All England Badminton Premier Superseries Women’s Doubles Quarterfinals
  • 2016 Korea Badminton Golden Grand Prix Women’s Doubles Champion
  • 2016 Denmark Super Series Premier Women’s Doubles Runner-up
  • 2016 Korea Badminton Premier Premier Women’s Doubles Champion
  • 2016 Rio Olympics Badminton Brazil Women’s Doubles 3rd Runner-up
  • 2016 Uber Cup Women’s Team Runner-up
  • 2016 Singapore Badminton Premier Superseries Women’s Doubles Quarterfinals
  • 2016 Malaysia Badminton Premier Super Tournament Women’s Doubles Runner-up
  • 2016 Badminton Asia Team Championships Women’s Team 3rd Runner-up
  • 2016 Thailand Badminton Masters Women’s Doubles Quarterfinals
  • 2016 Badminton India Golden Grand Prix Women’s Doubles Champion
  • 2015 USA Badminton Grand Prix Women’s Doubles Champion
  • 2015 China Macau Badminton Golden Grand Prix Women’s Doubles Champion
  • 2015 Korea Badminton Masters Women’s Doubles Runner-up
  • 2015 France Badminton Super Tournament Women’s Doubles Quarter-finals
  • 2015 Denmark Badminton Super Tournament Women’s Doubles Champion
  • 2015 Korea Badminton Super Tournament Women’s Doubles Quarter-finals
  • 2015 Sudirman Cup Third Place
  • 2015 Malaysia Badminton Super Tournament Women’s Doubles Runner-up
  • 2014 Incheon Asian Games Badminton Korea Women’s Team Runner-up
  • 2014 Indonesia Badminton Premier Super Tournament Women’s Doubles Quarterfinals
  • 2014 Japan Badminton Premier Superseries Women’s Doubles Quarterfinals
  • 2014 Uber Cup Women’s Team 3rd Runner-up
  • 2014 Badminton Asia Championships Women’s Doubles Runner-up
  • 2014 Badminton India Premier Superseries Women’s Doubles Runner-up
  • 2014 Germany Badminton Golden Grand Prix Women’s Doubles Runner-up
  • 2013 Chinese Taipei Badminton Golden Grand Prix Women’s Doubles Champion
  • 2013 Sudirman Cup Mixed Team 1st Runner-up
  • 2013 Swiss Badminton Grand Prix Gold Women’s Doubles Champion
  • 2013 Germany Badminton Grand Prix Gold Women’s Doubles Champion
  • 2013 Korea Badminton Super Tournament Women’s Doubles Quarter-finals
  • 2012 India Badminton Super Tournament Women’s Doubles Champion
  • 2012 Germany Badminton Golden Grand Prix Women’s Doubles Runner-up
  • 2012 Uber Cup Women’s Team Runner-up
  • 2012 Korea Badminton Grand Prix Women’s Doubles Final Four
  • 2011 Korea Badminton Golden Grand Prix Mixed Doubles Runner-up
  • 2011 USA Badminton Grand Prix Gold Women’s Doubles Runner-up
  • 2011 Swiss Badminton Golden Grand Prix Women’s Doubles Runner-up
  • 2010 Uber Cup Women’s Team Champion
  • 2010 Korea Badminton Grand Prix Women’s Doubles Champion
  • 2010 Malaysia Badminton Super Tournament Women’s Doubles Final Four
  • 2010 Korea Badminton Grand Prix Women’s Doubles Final Four
  • 2009 East Asian Games Badminton Women’s Team 3rd Runner-up
  • 2008 World Junior Badminton Championships Mixed Team Runner-up
  • 2007 World Junior Badminton Championships Women’s Doubles Runner-up
  • 2007 World Junior Badminton Championships Mixed Team 1st Runner-up
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