Since Lin Dan retired, Chinese badminton has completely lost its former dominance, although this Olympic Games, the national badminton 5 individual events all reached the final, and also won 2 gold medals, but always give people a feeling of winning a very suspenseful, as if there is no strong reserve talent. You know, the former national feathers are also as fiercely competitive as the national table tennis, and some athletes even have to go away because they can't play in The country, and the former national featherweight famous Pi Hongyan is one of them.
Pi Hongyan picked up the racket at the age of 8, and was first selected for the national team at the age of 18, and was originally a very talented athlete. In 1999, Pi Hongyan represented Guoyu in the US Open and successfully won the championship. But what Pi Hongyan did not expect was that she had just returned to China to report to the country, and the head coach announced the decision of the team to prepare to "fire" her, because Pi Hongyan was not tall enough, and the technical playing style had no future, and she was ready to transfer her back to the Sichuan provincial team. In fact, Pi Hongyan is 1 meter 64 tall, although not as tall as the later Zhang Ning and Xie Xingfang, but it is not short, and Guo Yu fired her for this reason, which is really unreasonable.
In desperation, Pi Hongyan could only return to the provincial team according to the requirements of Guo Yu, and then represented Sichuan in the Ninth Games, and defeated Guo Yu's famous Gong Rena to win the women's singles bronze medal. During her time with the Sichuan team, Pi Hongyan only had a monthly subsidy of 600 yuan, barely enough to survive, when a Danish club took the initiative to contact her and invited her to play abroad. Pi Hongyan accepted the invitation, and later got an invitation from the French badminton team, she not only got the opportunity to study in France, but also successfully obtained a French passport. In the 2003 French Open, Pi Hongyan played as the host player, successfully won the women's singles championship, and began a brilliant "overseas playing" career.
Before the Athens Olympics, the red-skinned women's singles world ranking reached the highest place in the 8th place, and has entered the ranks of the top athletes. Unfortunately, in that year's Olympic Games, Pi Hongyan sprained his ankle and was eliminated in the first game. In other competitions, however, Pi Hongyan was in excellent form, winning the women's singles title at both the 2004 and 2005 French Opens, thus achieving three consecutive titles in the project. From 2005 to 2010, Pi Hongyan was firmly ranked first in the French women's singles, and the world ranking rose to 2nd place in the same period, but on the stage of the Olympic Games and the World Championships, she has never been able to make a big breakthrough.
In the final four of the 2008 Olympic Games, Pi Hongyan lost 1:2 to Zhang Ning, the famous national feather and defending champion, and failed to achieve revenge on the national feather. At the 2009 World Championships, Pi Hongyan lost to Guoyu's Xie Xingfang in the women's singles semifinals, which was also her best result in the World Championships. At the 2012 Olympic Games, Pi Hongyan, who had entered the end of her career, failed to break into the top 8 and announced her retirement shortly after. After Pi Hongyan left the national team, he won a total of 11 championships in various competitions for the French badminton team, and his career was quite successful, and now he lives an ordinary and happy life with his foreign husband.