Born in 1988, Wang Yihan was selected for the national second team at the age of 16, the runner-up in the women's singles of the Asian Youth Championships at the age of 17, and the national first team at the age of 18, such as Zhang Ning and Xie Xingfang, who became her sisters. It was also in the World Cup of that year, in the quarterfinals, she defeated her sister Zhang Ning, and in the final, she let her sister Xie Xingfang drink and hate, and became a world champion! (The Badminton World Cup was discontinued after 2006), and it was also in that year that she also won the Women's Singles Championship of the World Youth Championships!
What really made Wang Yihan shine was in 2009. In March, she defeated the famous Zhou Mi, Xie Xingfang and Denmark's Rasmussen in the All England Tournament to win the 100-year all England championship. In May, Guoyu won the Sudirman Cup, and Wang Yihan, one of the members, was also crowned the world champion of the team competition. In October, she ascended to the throne of the world number one in the women's singles of badminton.
At the World Championships in August 2011, Wang Yihan won the most important championship in her life, the World Championship, becoming a veritable world champion. At the 2012 London Olympics, she lost 1-2 to her sister Li Xuerui, who was three years younger than her, and only won the silver medal. At the 2016 Rio Olympics, he lost to Sindu, India, in the quarter-finals, and missed the medal. In the same year, the 28-year-old Wang Yihan retired. Not winning the Olympic gold medal became the biggest regret of his career. In October 2019, he announced his marriage and hoped that Wang Yihan would live a happy life!