Tai Dai

Background

Tai’s father is a firefighter and the director of Kaohsiung city’s badminton committee.

Career

Tai started playing badminton as third grader in elementary school. Furthermore, she was the youngest player to compete in the first division. In 2009, Tai, aged 15, began to compete in international games.

She was the runner-up in her first game, Vietnam Open.

On July, she represented Kaohsiung City to play in the National Games and went into the quarter final. In the same month, she signed up for Asian Youth Badminton Tournament in Malaysia and became the runner-up.

In August 2013, she was recruited by the team Banga Beats to play for them in the Indian Badminton League. In the 2013 BWF Super Series Masters Finals, she defeated Sung Ji-hyun and Porntip Buranaprasertsuk but lost to Wang Shixian.

She made it into the semifinals and successfully avenged her loss, beating Wang Shixian.

She ended second after losing the final to Li Xuerui. In 2015, She was beaten by Sun Yu in Singapore Open despite leading 20-17 in the third set. Individual Titles (7) Performance timeline Key Record Against Selected Opponents.

Achievements

• Superseries tournament Grand Prix Gold and Grand Prix tournament Key 1R* Foreign the first time, the preliminary stage will consist of 16 groups of either two or three players. Each player will play every other member of the group with the top most player advancing to the knock-out stage, ultimately leading to the winner, Tai Tzu Ying advanced to the first round of knock-out stage but lost to Li Xuerui of China in 21-16, 23-21. Record against Superseries finalists, World Championships semifinalists, and Olympic quarterfinalists.