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Beiwen Zhang 张蓓雯
Zhang at 2017 Indonesia Super Series Premier
Personal information
Country	China (1990–2007) Singapore (2007–2021) United States (2021–present)
Born	(1990-07-12) 12 July 1990 (age 34) Anshan, Liaoning, China
Residence	Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
Height	1.69 m (5 ft 7 in)
Handedness	Right
Women's singles
Career record	356 wins, 193 losses
Highest ranking	9 (22 June 2017)
Current ranking	15 (10 December 2024)
Medal record Women's badminton Representing the  United States Pan American Games 2023 Santiago Women's singles Pan Am Championships 2021 Guatemala City Women's singles 2024 Guatemala City Women's singles 2022 San Salvador Women's singles 2023 Kingston Women's singles Pan Am Mixed Team Championships 2023 Guadalajara Mixed team Pan Am Female Badminton Cup 2024 São Paulo Women's team Representing  Singapore Southeast Asian Games 2009 Vientiane Women's team World Junior Championships 2007 Waitakere City Mixed team
BWF profile

Beiwen Zhang (simplified Chinese: 张蓓雯; traditional Chinese: 張蓓雯; pinyin: Zhāng Bèiwén; born 12 July 1990) is a badminton player who is a singles specialist. Born in China, she previously represented Singapore and currently represents the United States. She won the women's singles title at the 2021 Pan Am Championships and at the 2023 Pan American Games.

Career

2003–2013: Singapore

Zhang was born in China and moved to Singapore at the age of 13 in 2003, under the Foreign Sports Talent Scheme, and played with the Singapore National Team until 2012. In 2007, Zhang took up Singapore citizenship.

In 2009, she was part of the Singapore national badminton team, winning a bronze medal at the women's team event of the 2009 Southeast Asian Games. After a one-year break in which she did not play any tournaments at all, in 2013, she came back on her way to reach top level again.

In 2011, her contract with the Singapore Badminton Association (SBA) was not renewed after a reported falling out with then-singles head coach Luan Ching over a curfew.

2013–present: United States

In 2013, Zhang moved to Las Vegas with her parents and continued playing the sport. That same year, she won four international challenge tournaments with singles titles at the Swiss International in Yverdon-les-Bains; the Yonex USA International in Orlando, Florida; the Yonex Welsh International in Cardiff; and the Carlton Irish Open International in Dublin. In 2014, she continued her winning streak for her new country the US, with victories in Peru, the US, Brazil and the Netherlands. She won her first Grand Prix title at the 2014 U.S. Open Grand Prix Gold, then won the 2014 Brazil Open Grand Prix and 2014 Dutch Open Grand Prix.

In 2016, Zhang started to compete in the Danish Badminton League, for Vendsyssel Elite Badminton. Zhang reached the final round at a BWF Super Series event, the French Open, for the first time, but finished as the runner-up after losing the final to He Bingjiao of China in straight games. In 2018, she won her first BWF World Tour title at the India Open, defeating host player and defending champion P. V. Sindhu with the score 21–18, 11–21, 22–20 in the final.

In 2021, Zhang competed in her first Pan Am Championships and clinched the women's singles title after beating Rachel Chan of Canada in straight games. On March the same year, she became a naturalized U.S. citizen. She then competed in the 2020 Summer Olympics. Her bid for a medal was cut short, however, when she suffered an apparent achilles injury during a match against He Bingjiao of China in the round of 16.

Zhang started the 2023 season in Asia by competing in Malaysia, India, Indonesia, and Thailand，where her best performance was entering the quarter-finals in India. Her performance improved on tour in Europe, by being a finalist in the Orléans Masters, semi-finalist in the Swiss Open, and also quarter-finalist in the Spain Masters. She then took part in the Pan Am Championships in Jamaica, and won the women's singles silver medal. Zhang's form picked up in recent months. She finished runner-up at the Taipei Open in June, made the Canada Open semi-finals and reached the Japan Open quarter-finals in July. She then won her first World Tour title in five years in the Australian Open in August, beating Kim Ga-eun in the final. In October, she claimed the gold medal in the women's singles in her debut at the Pan American Games.

Achievements

Pan American Games

Women's singles

Year	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result
2023	Olympic Training Center, Santiago, Chile	Jennie Gai	21–8, 21–12	Gold

Pan American Championships

Women's singles

Year	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result
2021	Sagrado Corazon de Jesus, Guatemala City, Guatemala	Rachel Chan	21–14, 21–18	Gold
2022	Palacio de los Deportes Carlos "El Famoso" Hernández, San Salvador, El Salvador	Michelle Li	18–21, 21–16, 23–25	Silver
2023	G.C. Foster College of Physical Education and Sport, Kingston, Jamaica	Michelle Li	19–21, 9–21	Silver
2024	Teodoro Palacios Flores Gymnasium, Guatemala City, Guatemala	Michelle Li	21–18, 18–21, 21–17	Gold

BWF World Tour (3 titles, 5 runners-up)

The BWF World Tour, which was announced on 19 March 2017 and implemented in 2018, is a series of elite badminton tournaments sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation (BWF). The BWF World Tour is divided into levels of World Tour Finals, Super 1000, Super 750, Super 500, Super 300, and the BWF Tour Super 100.

Women's singles

Year	Tournament	Level	Opponent	Score	Result
2018	India Open	Super 500	P. V. Sindhu	21–18, 11–21, 22–20	Winner
2018	U.S. Open	Super 300	Li Xuerui	26–24, 15–21, 11–21	Runner-up
2018	Korea Open	Super 500	Nozomi Okuhara	10–21, 21–17, 16–21	Runner-up
2023	Orléans Masters	Super 300	Carolina Marín	23–25, 21–9, 10–21	Runner-up
2023	Taipei Open	Super 300	Tai Tzu-ying	14–21, 17–21	Runner-up
2023	Australian Open	Super 500	Kim Ga-eun	20–22, 21–16, 21–8	Winner
2023	Hylo Open	Super 300	Line Kjærsfeldt	21–18, 16–21, 21–16	Winner
2024	U.S. Open	Super 300	Natsuki Nidaira	21–17, 18–21, 22–24	Runner-up

BWF Superseries (1 runner-up)

The BWF Superseries, which was launched on 14 December 2006 and implemented in 2007, was a series of elite badminton tournaments, sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation (BWF). BWF Superseries levels were Superseries and Superseries Premier. A season of Superseries consisted of twelve tournaments around the world that had been introduced since 2011. Successful players were invited to the Superseries Finals, which were held at the end of each year.

Women's singles

Year	Tournament	Opponent	Score	Result
2016	French Open	He Bingjiao	9–21 9–21	Runner-up

  BWF Superseries Finals tournament

  BWF Superseries Premier tournament

  BWF Superseries tournament

BWF Grand Prix (7 titles, 2 runner-up)

The BWF Grand Prix had two levels, the Grand Prix and Grand Prix Gold. It was a series of badminton tournaments sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation (BWF) and played between 2007 and 2017.

Women's singles

Year	Tournament	Opponent	Score	Result
2008	Vietnam Open	Xing Aiying	11–21, 21–19, 22–20	Winner
2014	U.S. Open	Kana Ito	21–8, 21–17	Winner
2014	Brasil Open	Kaori Imabeppu	6–11, 11–5, 4–11, 11–8, 11–9	Winner
2014	Dutch Open	Pai Yu-po	11–9, 11–7, 11–8	Winner
2014	U.S. Grand Prix	Rachel Honderich	21–11, 21–13	Winner
2016	Canada Open	Michelle Li	Walkover	Runner-up
2016	Dutch Open	Hsu Ya-ching	21–11, 21–19	Winner
2017	Dutch Open	Michelle Li	21–16, 21–14	Winner
2017	Bitburger Open	Nitchaon Jindapol	17–21, 21–15, 19–21	Runner-up

  BWF Grand Prix Gold tournament

  BWF Grand Prix tournament

BWF International Challenge/Series (9 titles, 2 runner-up)

Women's singles

Year	Tournament	Opponent	Score	Result
2013	Swiss International	Tanvi Lad	21–12, 21–12	Winner
2013	USA International	Iris Wang	21–10, 21–12	Winner
2013	Welsh International	Beatriz Corrales	21–12, 21–15	Winner
2013	Irish Open	Beatriz Corrales	21–9, 17–21, 21–10	Winner
2014	Peru International	Michelle Li	27–25, 21–19	Winner
2015	USA International	Pai Yu-po	21–14, 13–21, 21–19	Winner
2016	Yonex / K&D Graphics International	Rachel Honderich	21–13, 21–12	Winner

Women's doubles

Year	Tournament	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2005	Croatian International	Fu Mingtian	Frances Liu Shinta Mulia Sari	Walkover	Runner-up
2007	Croatian International	Gu Juan	Cai Jiani Guo Xin	21–15, 6–21, 10–21	Runner-up
2013	USA International	Jing Yu Hong	Paula B Pereira Lohaynny Vicente	21–7, 21–14	Winner
2016	Yonex / K&D Graphics International	Jing Yu Hong	Eva Lee Paula Lynn Obañana	21–17, 22–20	Winner

  BWF International Challenge tournament

  BWF International Series tournament

  BWF Future Series tournament

Record against selected opponents

Record against Year-end Finals finalists, World Championships semi-finalists, and Olympic quarter-finalists. Accurate as of 6 August 2024.

Players Matches Results Difference Won Lost Chen Yufei 7 1 6 –5 He Bingjiao 13 2 11 –9 Li Xuerui 3 0 3 –3 Wang Lin 3 0 3 –3 Wang Shixian 1 0 1 –1 Wang Yihan 3 0 3 –3 Wang Xin 1 0 1 –1 Zhang Yiman 3 2 1 +1 Cheng Shao-chieh 1 0 1 –1 Tai Tzu-ying 13 3 10 –7 Tine Baun 1 0 1 –1 Juliane Schenk 2 1 1 0 Yip Pui Yin 4 3 1 +2 Saina Nehwal 4 1 3 –2

Players Matches Results Difference Won Lost P. V. Sindhu 12 5 7 –2 Maria Kristin Yulianti 1 1 0 +1 Gregoria Mariska Tunjung 8 2 6 –4 Minatsu Mitani 4 2 2 0 Aya Ohori 5 4 1 +3 Nozomi Okuhara 7 0 7 –7 Akane Yamaguchi 11 4 7 –3 An Se-young 5 0 5 –5 Bae Yeon-ju 4 2 2 0 Sung Ji-hyun 6 3 3 0 Carolina Marín 12 3 9 –6 Porntip Buranaprasertsuk 3 3 0 +3 Ratchanok Intanon 8 2 6 –4

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External links

• Beiwen Zhang at BWF.TournamentSoftware.com (alternate link)
• Beiwen Zhang at BWFBadminton.com
• Beiwen Zhang at Olympedia (archive)
• Beiwen Zhang at Olympics.com
• Beiwen Zhang at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics

• Biography
• China
• Singapore
• United States

• 1990 births
• Living people
• Sportspeople from Anshan
• Badminton players from Liaoning
• Chinese emigrants to Singapore
• Singaporean sportspeople of Chinese descent
• Singaporean female badminton players
• Competitors at the 2009 SEA Games
• SEA Games bronze medalists for Singapore
• SEA Games medalists in badminton
• People's Republic of China emigrants to the United States
• Singaporean emigrants to the United States
• Naturalized citizens of the United States
• Sportspeople from Las Vegas
• American female badminton players
• Badminton players at the 2020 Summer Olympics
• Badminton players at the 2024 Summer Olympics
• Olympic badminton players for the United States
• Badminton players at the 2023 Pan American Games
• Medalists at the 2023 Pan American Games
• Pan American Games gold medalists for the United States in badminton
• 21st-century American sportswomen
• Naturalised sports competitors