Gu Juan


Gu Juan is a China born Singaporean badminton player.

Career

Gu followed her father to Nanjing when she was six years old. Due to poor body constitution, her father sent her to a badminton school to build her up. Gu represented Nanjing and won a competition. She was subsequently invited to join the Beijing badminton team but withdrew after not being used to the weather conditions. Gu then further represented Nanjing in the Jiangsu sports competition and won the girls doubles and mixed doubles. 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. Gu was part of the Singapore women's team who won the silver medal at the 2007 Southeast Asian Games held in Thailand. In 2012, Gu was selected as Singapore's only Olympic women's singles player for the 2012 Summer Olympics by the Singapore Badminton Association, ahead of Southeast Asian Games women's singles champion Fu Mingtian. At the 2012 Olympics, she qualified from her group before losing to Cheng Shao-Chieh.

Achievements

BWF World Junior Championships

Girls' Singles
YearVenueOpponentScoreResult
2007Waitakere Trusts Stadium, Waitakere City, New Zealand Wang Lin14–21, 14–21 Bronze

Asia Junior Championships

Girls' Singles
YearVenueOpponentScoreResult
2007Stadium Juara, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Liu Xin7–21, 21–15, 16–21 Silver

BWF Grand Prix

The BWF Grand Prix has two levels: Grand Prix and Grand Prix Gold. It is a series of badminton tournaments, sanctioned by Badminton World Federation since 2007.
Women's Singles
YearTournamentOpponentScoreResult
2013Dutch Open Busanan Ongbumrungpan12–21, 12–21 Runner-up
2013Malaysia Masters Pusarla Venkata Sindhu17–21, 21–17, 19–21 Runner-up

BWF International Challenge/Series

Women's Singles
YearTournamentOpponentScoreResult
2011Singapore International Xing Aiying10–21, 12–21 Runner-up
2011New Zealand International Sayaka Sato14–21, 13–21 Runner-up
2010Vietnam International Lee Hyun-jin19–21, 15–21 Runner-up
2011Banuinvest International Hitomi Oka23–25, 21–15, 4–21 Runner-up
2007Waikato International Fu Mingtian14–21, 17–21 Runner-up

Women's Doubles
YearTournamentPartnerOpponentScoreResult
2007Croatian International Zhang Beiwen Cai Jiani
Guo Xin		21–15, 6–21, 10–21 Runner-up

Record Against Selected Opponents

Record against Super Series finalists, World Championships semifinalists, and Olympic quarterfinalists, plus all Olympic opponents.