Kim Hye-jeong

Kim Hye-jeong (Hangul: 김혜정; born 3 January 1998) is a South Korean badminton player.[1] She has shown her potential as a badminton player since she was young.[2] Kim entered the regular training in the second grade of elementary school in Wanwol-dong, Masan, and was part of the school team that won the junior national championships in 2008.[2][3] She won two times German Junior Open in 2014 and 2015 in the girls' doubles event, and clinched two titles at the 2015 Thailand Open in the girls' and mixed doubles event.[4] Kim was part of the national junior team that won the mixed team silver medal at the 2014 and 2015 Asian Junior Championships, and in the individual event, she claim the mixed doubles bronze in 2014, and 2015 silver and bronze medals in the girls' and mixed doubles event respectively.[5][6] At the 2016 World Junior Championships, she finished in the semifinals, and settled for the bronze medal.[7] Kim joined the MG Saemaeul team in 2016, and selected to join the national team in 2018.[4] She was born in the badminton family. Her mother Chung So-young, was the former 1992 Olympic gold medalist, and her father Kim Bum-shik, is a badminton coach.[2][4]

Kim Hye-jeong
Personal information
Country South Korea
Born (1998-01-03) 3 January 1998
Masan, Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea
Height1.61 m (5 ft 3 in)
HandednessRight
Women's & mixed doubles
Highest ranking47 (WD 9 April 2019)
49 (XD 12 March 2019)
Current ranking47 (WD), 59 (XD) (9 April 2019)
BWF profile

Achievements

BWF World Junior Championships

Mixed doubles

Year Venue Partner Opponent Score Result
2016 Bilbao Arena,
Bilbao, Spain
Park Kyung-hoon Zhou Haodong
Hu Yuxiang
17–21, 18–21 Bronze

Asian Junior Championships

Girls' doubles

Year Venue Partner Opponent Score Result
2015 CPB Badminton Training Center,
Bangkok, Thailand
Park Keun-hye Du Yue
Li Yinhui
21–18, 10–21, 19–21 Bronze

Mixed doubles

Year Venue Partner Opponent Score Result
2015 CPB Badminton Training Center,
Bangkok, Thailand
Choi Jong-woo Zheng Siwei
Chen Qingchen
8–21, 12–21 Silver
2014 Taipei Gymnasium,
Taipei, Chinese Taipei
Kim Jae-hwan Huang Kaixiang
Chen Qingchen
9–21, 19–21 Bronze

BWF World Tour

The BWF World Tour, announced on 19 March 2017 and implemented in 2018,[8] is a series of elite badminton tournaments, sanctioned by Badminton World Federation (BWF). The BWF World Tour are divided into six levels, namely World Tour Finals, Super 1000, Super 750, Super 500, Super 300 (part of the HSBC World Tour), and the BWF Tour Super 100.[9]

Women's doubles

Year Tournament Level Partner Opponent Score Result
2019 Singapore Open Super 500 Kong Hee-yong Mayu Matsumoto
Wakana Nagahara
17–21, 20–22 Runner-up
2018 U.S. Open Super 300 Kim So-yeong Tang Jinhua
Yu Xiaohan
21–18, 13–21, 15–21 Runner-up

References

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