Background
Gu followed her father to Nanjing when she was six years old. Due to poor body constitution, her father send her to a badminton school to build up her body.
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Gu followed her father to Nanjing when she was six years old. Due to poor body constitution, her father send her to a badminton school to build up her body.
She was subsequently invited to join the Beijing badminton team but withdrew after not being used to the weather conditions. Former Jiangsu badminton coach, representing the Singapore Badminton Association, scouted her and invited her to Singapore. Gu came to Singapore in 2003 under the Foreign Sports Talent Scheme and became a Singapore citizen in June 2007.
She left the Singapore national team to return to Shanghai for studies a year later.
However, 16 months later, after the persuasion of the Singapore national badminton team"s head coach, she re-joined the national team