Panda just went to the BWF website and found these players retiring: Players Retired from competitive badminton in 2009/2010 Updated: 15 March 2010 Players Name BWF ID No Country Date of Retirement Comments. [FONT=Calibri,Calibri][FONT=Calibri,Calibri]Jens Eriksen [/FONT][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri,Calibri][FONT=Calibri,Calibri]1837 [/FONT][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri,Calibri][FONT=Calibri,Calibri]DEN [/FONT][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri,Calibri][FONT=Calibri,Calibri]September 09 [/FONT][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri,Calibri][FONT=Calibri,Calibri]Received 13 Oct 09 [/FONT][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri,Calibri][FONT=Calibri,Calibri]Martin Lunggard Hansen [/FONT][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri,Calibri][FONT=Calibri,Calibri]4108 [/FONT][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri,Calibri][FONT=Calibri,Calibri]DEN [/FONT][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri,Calibri][FONT=Calibri,Calibri]September 09 [/FONT][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri,Calibri][FONT=Calibri,Calibri]Received 13 Oct 09 [/FONT][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri,Calibri][FONT=Calibri,Calibri]Donna Kellogg [/FONT][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri,Calibri][FONT=Calibri,Calibri]9646 [/FONT][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri,Calibri][FONT=Calibri,Calibri]CHN [/FONT][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri,Calibri][FONT=Calibri,Calibri]January 2010 [/FONT][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri,Calibri][FONT=Calibri,Calibri]Received 4 Jan 2010 [/FONT][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri,Calibri][FONT=Calibri,Calibri]Zhang Jiewen [/FONT][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri,Calibri][FONT=Calibri,Calibri]50253 [/FONT][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri,Calibri][FONT=Calibri,Calibri]CHN [/FONT][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri,Calibri][FONT=Calibri,Calibri]January 2010 [/FONT][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri,Calibri][FONT=Calibri,Calibri]Received 1 Mac 2010 [/FONT][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri,Calibri][FONT=Calibri,Calibri]Xie Xingfang [/FONT][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri,Calibri][FONT=Calibri,Calibri]50254 [/FONT][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri,Calibri][FONT=Calibri,Calibri]CHN [/FONT][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri,Calibri][FONT=Calibri,Calibri]January 2010 [/FONT][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri,Calibri][FONT=Calibri,Calibri]Received 1 Mac 2010 [/FONT][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri,Calibri][FONT=Calibri,Calibri]Wei Yili [/FONT][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri,Calibri][FONT=Calibri,Calibri]50925 [/FONT][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri,Calibri][FONT=Calibri,Calibri]CHN [/FONT][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri,Calibri][FONT=Calibri,Calibri]January 2010 [/FONT][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri,Calibri][FONT=Calibri,Calibri]Received 1 Mac 2010 [/FONT][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri,Calibri][FONT=Calibri,Calibri]Gao Ling [/FONT][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri,Calibri][FONT=Calibri,Calibri]9706 [/FONT][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri,Calibri][FONT=Calibri,Calibri]CHN [/FONT][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri,Calibri][FONT=Calibri,Calibri]January 2010 [/FONT][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri,Calibri][FONT=Calibri,Calibri]Received 1 Mac 2010 [/FONT][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri,Calibri][FONT=Calibri,Calibri]Yang Wei [/FONT][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri,Calibri][FONT=Calibri,Calibri]10647 [/FONT][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri,Calibri][FONT=Calibri,Calibri]CHN [/FONT][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri,Calibri][FONT=Calibri,Calibri]January 2010 [/FONT][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri,Calibri][FONT=Calibri,Calibri]Received 1 Mac 2010 [/FONT][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri,Calibri][FONT=Calibri,Calibri]Zhao Tingting [/FONT][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri,Calibri][FONT=Calibri,Calibri]50929 [/FONT][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri,Calibri][FONT=Calibri,Calibri]CHN [/FONT][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri,Calibri][FONT=Calibri,Calibri]January 2010 [/FONT][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri,Calibri][FONT=Calibri,Calibri]Received 5 Mac 2010 [/FONT][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri,Calibri][FONT=Calibri,Calibri]Xie Zhongbo [/FONT][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri,Calibri][FONT=Calibri,Calibri]50919 [/FONT][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri,Calibri][FONT=Calibri,Calibri]CHN [/FONT][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri,Calibri][FONT=Calibri,Calibri]January 2010 [/FONT][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri,Calibri][FONT=Calibri,Calibri]Received 5 Mac 2010 [/FONT][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri,Calibri][FONT=Calibri,Calibri]Chen Yu [/FONT][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri,Calibri][FONT=Calibri,Calibri]50931 [/FONT][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri,Calibri][FONT=Calibri,Calibri]CHN [/FONT][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri,Calibri][FONT=Calibri,Calibri]January 2010 [/FONT][/FONT] [FONT=Calibri,Calibri][FONT=Calibri,Calibri]Received 5 Mac 2010 [/FONT][/FONT] This is a tremendous list of elite players and Panda is sad to see them retire. Wish them the best of luck in their future endeavors.
i guess china's making more room for the future generation? these retirees will then go into coaching now i guess??
So it was true about XXF........ I didn't want to believe it at all. But I'm glad not to see PG on there.
yeah, i believe he had health problems and had surgery done awhile ago. i'm sure other BCF members can give more specific comments about his retirement.
hahaha, clearly she isn't... i thought it was pretty clear i was only referring to the chinese players... maybe xxf wants to be a wife? hahhaha and yes, i'm glad PG isn't there hopefully he'll play long enough for the next olympics, but that is very unlikely Yea, i remember gillian commenting about something to that effect during one of his matches not entirely sure though
just the other week I was wondering whatever happened to Chen Yu. He got on the world level the same time Chen Jin did and won some good matches back then. Was he forced into retiring because of the younger generation? I still liked Jens E. and Martin L.H. as a pairing, but their retiring isn't that shocking
any updates on chen hong? He played few tournaments after quitting chinese team, got married and no news of him after that.