- Xu Huaiwen
Infobox Badminton player
playername = Xu Huaiwen
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birth_name = 徐懷雯
date_of_birth = birth date and age|1975|8|2
place_of_birth = CHNGuiyang ,Guizhou province
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event = Women's Singles
country = GER
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handedness = Right
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current_ranking = 8
date_of_current_ranking =July 3 ,2008 [ [http://www.internationalbadminton.org/ranking_ms.asp?id=2 BWF World Ranking - Women's Singles] ]
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bwf_id = 5949Xu Huaiwen (zh-stp|t=徐懷雯|p=Xú Huáiwén|s=徐怀雯; born
August 2 1975 ) is a femalebadminton player fromGermany . She was born inGuiyang ,Guizhou ,People's Republic of China . She decided to play for Germany because the Chinese thought that she was too short to playprofessional world badminton.Said by David Mercer/Gillian Clark onAugust 13 ,2008 in match againstXie Xingfang in the Quarter Finals of the Women's Singles shown on theBBC .] She can speak fluent Chinese, German and English.Career
2004 Summer Olympics
Xu played
badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics , losing toZhou Mi of China in the round of 32.2006
2006 started to be a successful year for Xu. In January she won the Swiss Open. In April she won the European Championship in the women single, defeating
Mia Audina of theNetherlands in the final [cite web|url=http://tournamentsoftware.com/sport/winners.aspx?id=10066 |title=2006 European Championships winners |publisher=tournamentsoftware.com] .Xu was defeated by
Xie Xingfang of China in the semi-final match of the World Championships 2006 in Madrid, Spain.2007
In 2007 she also played at the World Championships and was beaten in quarterfinals by
Lu Lan , ofChina , 9-21, 21-12, 16-21.2008
She won the gold medal at the
2008 European Badminton Championships [cite web|url=http://tournamentsoftware.com/sport/winners.aspx?id=20426 |title=2008 European Championships winners |publisher=tournamentsoftware.com |accessdate=2008-04-21] .She proceeded into the quarter finals while at the Olympics in Beijing but was only just beaten by world no 1. Xie Xingfang.References
External links
* [http://www.internationalbadminton.org/playerinfo.asp?playerid=5949 BWF Player Profile]
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