Wei Yili

Wei Yili (simplified Chinese: 魏轶力; traditional Chinese: 魏軼力; pinyin: Wèi Yìlì; born 24 June 1982) is a former badminton player from the People's Republic of China.

A women's doubles specialist, since 2001 Wei has competed on the world circuit in partnership with a variety of her fellow countrywomen, but most often with either Zhao Tingting or Zhang Yawen. A member of China's perennial world champion Uber Cup teams, in the biggest events for individual players (such as the BWF World Championships, the All-England Championships, and the Olympic Games) Wei and her partners have usually been overshadowed by China's two dominant women's doubles pairs, Gao Ling and Huang Sui, and Yang Wei and Zhang Jiewen. One exception came at the 2007 All-Englands where Wei Yili and Zhang Yawen defeated both of these teams to capture the highly coveted title. Her other women's doubles titles include the China (2001), Singapore (2001, 2007), Denmark (2002, 2004), Thailand (2003), Indonesia (2006), and French (2007) Opens.

Wei has medaled four times at the BWF World Championships without "striking gold". She earned a silverwith Zhang Jiewen in 2001, a silver with Zhao Tingting in 2003, a silver with Zhang Yawen in 2006, and a bronze with Zhang Yawen in 2007. She finished fourth at the 2004 Olympics in Athens with Zhao Tingting. At the 2008 Beijing Olympics Wei and Zhang Yawen were beaten in the semifinals by yet another Chinese pair, Du Jing and Yu Yang, who went on to win the gold medal. Wei and Zhang earned a bronze medal by defeating Japan's Miyuki Maeda and Satoko Suetsuna in the playoff for third place.

In 2008, Wei retired from the national team. Shereceived an award during a ceremony to mark her retirement with five other teammates from the Chinese national badminton team on the sidelines of the China Open badminton event in Shanghai, November 23, 2008. However, she was still playing a year later by partnering with Gao Ling. They lost to Yang Wei and Zhang Jiewen in the Thailand Open final of 2009, but won the Philippines Open of 2009.

Olympic Games

Women's doubles

BWF World Championships

Women's doubles

World Cup

Women's doubles

Asian Championships

Women's doubles

World Junior Championships

Girls' doubles

Mixed doubles

Asian Junior Championships

Girls' doubles

Mixed doubles

BWF Superseries

The BWF Superseries, launched on 14 December 2006 and implemented in 2007, is a series of elite badminton tournaments, sanctioned by Badminton World Federation (BWF). BWF Superseries has two level such as Superseries and Superseries Premier. A season of Superseries features twelve tournaments around the world, which introduced since 2011, with successful players invited to the Superseries Finals held at the year end.

Women's doubles

Year	Tournament	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2008	Swiss Open	Zhang Yawen	Yang Wei Zhang Jiewen	18–21, 24–22, 8–21	Runner-up
2007	Hong Kong Open	Zhang Yawen	Du Jing Yu Yang	20–22, 21–13, 17–21	Runner-up
2007	French Open	Zhang Yawen	Zhao Tingting Yu Yang	21–10, 21–15	Winner
2007	Singapore Open	Zhang Yawen	Zhao Tingting Yang Wei	10–21, 21–19, 21–18	Winner
2007	All England Open	Zhang Yawen	Yang Wei Zhang Jiewen	21–16, 8–21, 24–22	Winner

     BWF Superseries Finals tournament

     BWF Superseries Premier tournament

     BWF Superseries tournament

BWF Grand Prix

The BWF Grand Prix has two levels, the Grand Prix Gold and Grand Prix. It is a series of badminton tournaments, sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation (BWF) since 2007. The World Badminton Grand Prix has been sanctioned by the International Badminton Federation since 1983.

Women's doubles

Year	Tournament	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2009	Thailand Open	Gao Ling	Yang Wei Zhang Jiewen	24–22, 17–21, 15–21	Runner-up
2009	Philippines Open	Gao Ling	Shendy Puspa Irawati Meiliana Jauhari	21–11, 21–11	Winner
2006	China Open	Zhang Yawen	Yang Wei Zhang Jiewen	17–21, 7–21	Runner-up
2006	Japan Open	Zhang Yawen	Gao Ling Huang Sui	15–21, 17–21	Runner-up
2006	Indonesia Open	Zhang Yawen	Yang Wei Zhang Jiewen	21–13, 21–13	Winner
2006	China Masters	Zhang Yawen	Gao Ling Huang Sui	12–21, 21–18, 14–21	Runner-up
2005	Japan Open	Zhao Tingting	Yang Wei Zhang Jiewen	12–15, 2–15	Runner-up
2005	All England Open	Zhao Tingting	Gao Ling Huang Sui	10–15, 13–15	Runner-up
2005	German Open	Zhao Tingting	Gao Ling Huang Sui	4–15, 10–15	Runner-up
2004	China Open	Zhao Tingting	Yang Wei Zhang Jiewen	14–15, 12–15	Runner-up
2004	German Open	Zhao Tingting	Zhang Dan Zhang Yawen	8–15, 12–15	Runner-up
2004	Denmark Open	Zhao Tingting	Zhang Dan Zhang Yawen	15–13, 12–15, 15–7	Winner
2004	Japan Open	Zhao Tingting	Lee Kyung-won Ra Kyung-min	6–15, 15–5, 1–15	Runner-up
2003	Japan Open	Zhao Tingting	Gao Ling Huang Sui	13–10, 6–11, 5–11	Runner-up
2003	Swiss Open	Zhao Tingting	Yang Wei Zhang Jiewen	7–11, 11–6, 4–11	Runner-up
2003	Thailand Open	Zhao Tingting	Lee Hyo-jung Yim Kyung-jin	11–9, 5–11, 11–6	Winner
2002	China Open	Zhao Tingting	Gao Ling Huang Sui	9–11, 3–11	Runner-up
2002	Denmark Open	Zhao Tingting	Mia Audina Lotte Jonathans	11–3, 6–11, 11–9	Winner
2001	China Open	Zhang Jiewen	Huang Nanyan Yang Wei	8–6, 7–3, 6–8, 8–7	Winner
2001	Singapore Open	Zhang Jiewen	Zhang Yawen Zhao Tingting	8–6, 7–3, 7–4	Winner
2001	All England Open	Zhang Jiewen	Gao Ling Huang Sui	15–10, 8–15, 9–15	Runner-up
2000	Denmark Open	Zhang Jiewen	Chen Lin Jiang Xuelian	7–15, 3–15	Runner-up

     BWF Grand Prix Gold tournament

     BWF & IBF Grand Prix tournament

IBF International

Women's doubles

Year	Tournament	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2002	French International	Zhang Jiewen	Zhang Yawen Zhao Tingting	7–1, 7–2, 5–7, 5–7, 2–7	Runner-up