Chen Yufei (born 1 March 1998) is a Chinese badminton player.
She is the reigning Olympic champion.
2013
Chen Yufei did started playing in international level from the year 2013, being aged only 15.
2014
In 2014, she won the silver medal in the Asian Junior Championships after being beaten by Akane Yamaguchi in the final.
She finished runner-up in the German Junior International event after being beaten by Qin Jinjing in the final.
2015
In 2015, she reached the finals of the China International but lost to Nozomi Okuhara.
Her first Grand Prix Gold final was at the 2015 Indonesia Masters, in which she reached the final after astounding several seeded players, but lost to her teammate He Bingjiao.
2016
In her junior career, she won the girls' singles titles at the 2016 Asian and the World Junior Championships.
At the same year, Chen clinched her first senior title at the Macau Open.
In 2016, she won the major junior titles, including the Asian Junior Championships after beating Gregoria Mariska Tunjung in a summit clash, and the BWF World Junior Championships by beating Pornpawee Chochuwong in the final.
She also won the 2016 Macau Open Grand Prix Gold in the end of the year by defeating Chen Xiaoxin.
2017
She won a bronze medal at the 2017 World Championships and was awarded as the Eddy Choong Most Promising Player of the Year in 2017.
She reached the final of the 2017 Swiss Open Grand Prix Gold and had to settle for second best after losing to the same opponent whom she defeated in Macau Open final in 2016, Chen Xiaoxin.
In the 2017 BWF World Championships, the 19-year-old Chen participated as the 9th seed in the tournament.
After defeating Pai Yu-po, the lower ranked Chinese Taipei's player in the first round, she set her meeting with the top seeded Akane Yamaguchi.
She bulldozed her way through with the 21–18, 21–19 victory and stunned the world.
This was not over yet, in the quarter-final, she defeated another higher seeded player, the former world champion Ratchanok Intanon in 3 games & assured herself of first ever medal in this elite event.
However, in the semifinal, she lost to P. V. Sindhu and had to satisfy herself with the bronze medal.
With her strong performances, she got a ticket to contest in the year-ending 2017 BWF Super Series Finals.
In the group stage, she lost to Tai Tzu-ying (1–2) but won against Sung Ji-hyun (2–0) & Ratchanok Intanon (2–1) which meant she could confirm her place in the semifinal.
But again, in the semi-finals, she lost to P. V. Sindhu in straight games.
2018
She contested in the 2018 German Open final but lost to Akane Yamaguchi.
She won the silver medal at the 2018 Badminton Asia Championships losing to Tai Tzu-ying in straight games.
She fell to her 9th consecutive defeat against Tai Tzu-ying in the final of the Indonesia Open, in which she took the opening game but \wasn't sufficient to beat Tai and lost the next two.
In the World Championships, she failed to cross the quarter-final after being downed by Akane Yamaguchi, a player Chen defeated last year in straight games.
Akane Yamaguchi again proved difficult for Chen to crack, this time at the Asian games where she lost to her in quarter-finals.
In her second Super 1000 final at the China Open, which is the highest level of World tour events in badminton, she lost to the reigning world champion, Carolina Marín, in straight games.
At the 2018 Fuzhou China Open, a Super 750 event, she finally broke her jinx of losing in the finals after defeating Nozomi Okuhara tamely with 21–10, 21–16, and thus winning her first ever World tour title.
She again qualified for taking part in the season-ending championships, this time renamed as the "World Tour Finals", which was held in her home country China.
In the 1st match of the group stage against Ratchanok Intanon, she injured herself in the deciding game and lost the match.
She wasn't recovered from that yet but she played the 2nd match against the Canadian Michelle Li & again lost.
In the final group match, she twisted her ankle in the very early stage of 1st game which forced her to retire and her overall campaign ended.
2019
On 17 December 2019, she reached a career-high BWF World Ranking as world number 1, and finished the year as the year-end no.1.
Other achievements include winning the World Tour Finals in 2019 and silver medals at the 2022 World Championships and Asian Games.
2019 proved the best ever year in Chen Yufei's career as she earned multiple titles and honour of becoming the most dominant player of 2019 in her category.
Starting with the 2019 All England Open, she defeated Tai Tzu-ying in the final, a player she struggled to beat in her last 11 encounters.
Chen finally broke that jinx and won her first super 1000 title.
After that, she won the Swiss Open title following her win against Saena Kawakami in the final clash.
She competed in the 2019 Badminton Asia Championships as a top seed after defending champion Tai withdrew from the tournament.
She made her way to the semifinal and was discomfited by Akane Yamaguchi (1–2), thus claiming the bronze medal.
