Tai Tzu Ying 戴資穎 vs Carolina Marin | Badminton 2019 | Shuttle Amazing

Tai Tzu Ying vs Carolina Marin | Badminton 2019 | Shuttle Amazing

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Tai Tzu-ying (Chinese: 戴資穎; pinyin: Dài Zīyǐng; Wade–Giles: Tai Tzu-ying; born 20 June 1994) is a Taiwanese professional badminton player.[1] At the age of 22, she became world No. 1 in the women's singles on December 2016, and holds the women's singles longest record to occupied the top ranking in BWF history.

Tai was the women's singles gold medalists in 2018 Asian Games and 2017 Summer Universiade. She was back-to-back won the Asian Championships title, the year end tournament Superseries Finals, and the oldest tournament All England Open.

Tai plays an offensive game, with many calling her style unpredictable and often spontaneous. She is a very adventurous player with huge disguise and she seems to be able to hit the shuttle from just about anywhere with a great range of different shots and angles. Remarkable is also her very relaxed hitting motion. Tai has clocked fast smashes, with the fastest recorded being 360 km/h at the 2016 All England Open quarterfinals,[citation needed] despite her preference of playing slowly so she could set up shots. She has a strong backhand and good net-play, her biggest fault being inconsistent at times. Tai has strong stamina, being muscular and with a six-pack. Tai herself said that she does not follow a certain play or style, and focuses on herself rather than her opponent or strategies. Tai's prodigious talent and deceptive shot-making has earned compliments of many, including BWF commentator Gillian Clark, who has said that Tai is one of the best players to watch in women's singles, and has often complimented her shot-making and talent.

Carolina María Marín Martín (born 15 June 1993) is a Spanish professional badminton player. She is the reigning Olympic Champion, three-time World Champion, four-time European Champion and the former World's No. 1 in BWF rankings for the women's singles discipline, holding the World No. 1 title for a record number of 66 weeks.[1][3] Widely regarded as one of the greatest female athletes in the badminton circuit, she holds the distinction of having won a medal in almost every BWF tournament, along with the consecutive golds at the Olympics, the World Championships and the European Championships.[4][5] She has become the World Champion in women's singles three times, winning in 2014, 2015 and 2018. She has also consecutively won the BWF European Championships title for 4 times in 2014, 2016, 2017 and 2018.[6] She won her first Olympics gold medal in women's singles at the 2016 Rio Olympics.[7][8] In 2018, she won the BWF World Championships for the third time, thereby becoming the first ever female badminton athlete to have achieved this feat.[9][10]

In June 2017, she was appointed as the Brand ambassador of Meliá Hotels International.[11] She was also appointed the brand ambassador of football major LaLiga for its promotion in other countries.

Carolina Marín in her earlier childhood was a keen Flamenco dancer. It was when she came to know about badminton upon seeing her friend playing the sport, who introduced her to the game, that she developed interest and began to fall in love with this sport, and ever since then, decided to stop dancing and play badminton wholeheartedly. At the age of eight, she started playing badminton at the IES La Orden in Huelva. She says she had to leave her hometown and her family at a very young age to travel all the way to Madrid for training at National Centre.[12][13]