Ye Zhaoying

Ye Zhaoying
叶钊颖
Personal information
CountryChina
Born (1974-05-07) 7 May 1974
Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
Height1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight65 kg (143 lb)
HandednessRight
Women's singles
Highest ranking1 (January 1996)
Medal record
Women's badminton
Representing  China
Olympic Games
2000 SydneyWomen's singles
World Championships
1997 GlasgowWomen's singles
1995 LausanneWomen's singles
1993 BirminghamWomen's singles
World Cup
1995 JakartaWomen's singles
1997 YogyakartaWomen's singles
1993 New DelhiWomen's singles
1994 Ho Chi MinhWomen's singles
1996 JakartaWomen's singles
Sudirman Cup
1997 GlasgowMixed team
1995 LausanneMixed team
1993 BirminghamMixed team
Uber Cup
2000 Kuala LumpurWomen's team
1998 Hong KongWomen's team
1992 Kuala LumpurWomen's team
1996 Hong KongWomen's team
1994 JakartaWomen's team
Asian Games
1998 BangkokWomen's team
1994 HiroshimaWomen's singles
1994 HiroshimaWomen's team
Asian Championships
1999 Kuala LumpurWomen's singles
1998 BangkokWomen's singles
1995 BeijingWomen's singles
1994 ShanghaiWomen's singles
1992 Kuala LumpurWomen's singles
Asian Cup
1994 BeijingWomen's singles

Ye Zhaoying (simplified Chinese: 叶钊颖; traditional Chinese: 葉釗穎; pinyin: Yè Zhāoyǐng; born 7 May 1974) is a retired badminton player from Hangzhou, China. Officially ranked as the number one women's singles player in the world for the first time in December 1995, she lost and regained that ranking several times during her career. Her best years as a player overlapped those of the slightly older Susi Susanti and Bang Soo-hyun, in what some see as a "golden" era in women's badminton.

She retired after the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games, and in 2002, she started a new career as a golfer, trained at the Tian An Golf Club. She married former Chinese footballer and top-scoring striker Hao Haidong in summer 2019.

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