Home » Star Zone » Players » Li Xue Rui

0

Li Xue Rui

Jayce September 6, 2024 1 0

Character Introduction

Li Xuerui (李雪芮) (24 January 1991 – ) is a Chinese female badminton player from Dadukou, Chongqing, who won the women’s singles badminton gold medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics and debuted at No. 1 in the women’s singles world rankings on 20 December of the same year, and has remained at the top of the rankings for 119 weeks since (20 December 2012 -26 March 2015). in October 2019 announced her retirement from the national team.

Li Xuerui has been active since childhood, and has been accompanied by her mother to various interest classes since kindergarten.In 1998, her parents sent her to the Dadukou Sports School to study and board due to their busy schedules; she was not interested in badminton at the beginning, but it was only when she won her first national championship that she realised that she had grown to love the sport.

She joined the professional team in 2002 and then the Chongqing badminton team in 2004, during which she won the National Junior Badminton Championships singles title for three consecutive years (2004, 2005 and 2006). With her outstanding performance, she was promoted from the National Junior Team and National Youth Team to the National Second Team in just one year from 2006 to 2007, and won a number of national youth tournaments (including the 2007 National Junior Championships). In early 2007, Li Xuerui was exchanged by the Chongqing team to join the Bayi team as a player of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) representative team.

In July 2008, Li Xuerui was sent to participate in the Asian Junior Badminton Championships in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, where she first knocked out the second seed of the tournament, Seo Yun-hee of South Korea, 2-1 in the semi-finals, and then defeated her teammate Wang Shixian 2-0 (22-20, 21-13) in the final to win the women’s singles championship. In October, she assisted the second national team to win the World Youth Mixed Badminton Championships in India.

In 2009, Li Xuerui made her debut at the National Games, winning the Women’s Doubles Bronze Medal (with Pan Pan) for the Chongqing / Bayi team, losing only in the semi-finals to the Beijing Olympic Gold Medalist duo of Du Jing/Yu Yang. At the end of 2009, Li Xuerui finished third in the national team trials, and on 1 January 2010, she was officially admitted to the first team of the Chinese national badminton team.

In April 2010, Li Xuerui made her debut for the national first team at the Badminton Asia Championships in New Delhi, India; defeating Yip Pui-yin and Saina Neville, and narrowly defeating teammate Liu Xin 2-1 (21-13, 18-21, 21-19) in the final, she won her first major adult tournament and became the lowest-ranked winner in the history of the tournament (at 147). (ranked 147 at the time).

In September 2010, Li Xuerui travelled to Taipei to participate in the 11th World University Badminton Championships as a student at the School of Public Administration of Overseas Chinese University, winning the women’s singles and team championships as well as the women’s doubles runners-up spot, and breaking into the top ten of the women’s singles rankings for the first time in her career.

In 2011, Li Xuerui defeated Neville, Jiang Yanjiao and other Chinese and foreign masters in the Golden Grand Prix in Thailand, and made her debut on the international open podium; she then went on to compete in the European Championships. In 2011, Li made her debut on the International Open podium by defeating Neville and Jiang Yanjiao at the Thailand Golden Grand Prix, followed by a second-place finish at the French Superseries and a first-place finish at the Bitburg Golden Grand Prix in Europe.

Since the beginning of 2012, Li Xuerui’s performance has improved dramatically, winning the German Golden Grand Prix, the All England Premier Grand Prix, the Badminton Asia Championships and the Indian Premier Grand Prix, during which she won 30 consecutive matches, only losing to Pei Yanshu and Saina Neville in the South Korea and Indonesia Premier Grand Prix, respectively, during the year. The string of good results made Li Xuerui’s world ranking rose to a new personal high of No. 4, so that the national badminton team in the women’s singles Olympic candidate, there are four people competing for three places.

In July 2012, Li Xuerui represented China in the women’s singles event at the Olympic Games in London, England, and was seeded No. 3. On 4 August, the women’s singles final was played between two Chinese players, with Li Xuerui defeating her 2-1 (21-15, 21-23, 21-17) to win the women’s singles. 23, 21-17) force over the world’s first teammate Wang Yihan, to ‘dark horse’ posture for the Chinese team won the fourth consecutive Olympic Games women’s singles gold medal, but also become China’s women’s singles history of the youngest Olympic champion.

After the London Olympics, Li Xuerui was affected by the large and small celebrations, training was forced to reduce, but also missed a number of matches. In the following two super tournaments, she made an early exit in the second round and the last eight. However, after a brief downturn, she went on to win the China Premier and Hong Kong Superseries, and ended the year by winning the BWF Super Series Finals. At the end of the year, Li Xuerui was ranked No. 1 in the women’s singles for the first time in the world ranking list released on 20 December, and was nominated for the Best Newcomer Award by the 2012 CCTV Sports Personality of the Year.

In August 2013, Li Xuerui participated in the World Badminton Championships in Guangzhou, China, playing as the top seed in the women’s singles event. In the final, Li Xuerui played against No. 4 seed Rachano Indanon of Thailand. The final 1-2 defeat, only second place, failed to complete the Grand Slam of consecutive Olympic Games and World Championships titles in advance.

In August 2014, Li Xuerui participated in the World Badminton Championships held in Copenhagen, Denmark, as the top seed in the women’s singles programme, in the final, Li Xuerui against the ninth seed, Spain’s ‘dark horse’ Carolina Marin. To the decisive game, Li Xuerui affected by foot injury, plus Marin after the battle more and more brave, finally to 18-21 was reversed, for the second consecutive second place.

In August 2016, Li Xuerui competed in the women’s singles event of the badminton tournament at the Summer Olympics held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, and was seeded 3rd. In the semi-finals, she encountered Spain’s Carolina Marin and suffered a cruciate ligament rupture in her left leg when she landed on the ground due to a jumping back save in the second game, eventually losing 0-2 (14-21, 16-21), and as a result, she was unable to play in the third-place playoffs, and the Rio Olympics ended with a fourth-place finish.

Li Xuerui was scheduled to make her comeback at the China Badminton Masters in April 2017, but did not show up as scheduled, and did not participate in the Asian Championships or the Sudirman Cup thereafter. At the World Championships in August, Li Xuerui was offered a place in the main draw as a second replacement, but ended up abstaining due to a less-than-expected recovery from injury. At the National Games badminton tournament held on 30 August 2017, Li Xuerui only represented the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) in the women’s doubles event of the women’s team event, with the PLA team ending up in 7th place.

In April 2018, Li Xuerui made her first international appearance after a 20-month break, making her comeback at the China Lingshui Badminton Masters.

On 17 October 2019, due to the 2016 Rio Olympics round of 4, resulting in rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament in the left knee, rehab for nearly 2 years in last year to make a comeback again, but this injury affected her career, and finally it was hard to beat the time and the injury, officially announced her retirement.

On 15 November 2019, microblogging officially announced and Chinese badminton national player Qiao Bin collaterals married.

In October 2021, she joined Chongqing University.

Equipment Used

Flame N55; Li-Ning Line 5; Li-Ning Line 7; Flame N50 II; AAYN005/AAYN006; Air Stream N50 Ⅲ; AAYL131; ABJG052; Ranger Chameleon; AAYJ382-1

Discover More Content:

Watanabe and Higashino End 13-Year Partnership! The Two Exchanged Handshakes and Apologies After the Match Seo Seung Jae LIAO Li Xi Wang Zhiyi Apologizes for Withdrawing from the Finals Li Yin Hui Chen Yufei: Never Give Up Without a Fight