Ha Jung-eun (Korean하정은; born 26 April 1987) is a women's and mixed doubles badminton player from South Korea.[1] Ha was competed at the 2006, 2010 Asian Games, 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics.[2] Together with the Korean national women's team, they won the Uber Cup in 2010.[3] At the same year, she won the bronze medal at the World Championships in the mixed doubles event.[4]

Ha Jung-eun
Personal information
CountrySouth Korea
Born (1987-04-26) 26 April 1987 (age 37)
Busan, South Korea
Height1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Weight66 kg (130 lb)
Years active2003 – 2012
HandednessRight
Women's & mixed doubles
Highest ranking2 (WD)
4 (XD)
Medal record
Women's badminton
Representing  South Korea
World Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2010 Paris Mixed doubles
World Cup
Bronze medal – third place 2005 Yiyang Women's doubles
Sudirman Cup
Silver medal – second place 2009 Guangzhou Mixed team
Bronze medal – third place 2011 Qingdao Mixed team
Bronze medal – third place 2005 Beijing Mixed team
Uber Cup
Gold medal – first place 2010 Kuala Lumpur Women's team
Silver medal – second place 2012 Wuhan Women's team
Silver medal – second place 2004 Jakarta Women's team
Bronze medal – third place 2008 Jakarta Women's team
Asian Games
Bronze medal – third place 2010 Guangzhou Women's doubles
Bronze medal – third place 2010 Guangzhou Women's team
Bronze medal – third place 2006 Doha Women's team
Asian Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2011 Chengdu Women's doubles
World Junior Championships
Silver medal – second place 2004 Richmond Mixed team
Bronze medal – third place 2004 Richmond Girls' singles
Bronze medal – third place 2004 Richmond Girls' doubles
Asian Junior Championships
Gold medal – first place 2005 Jakarta Mixed doubles
Silver medal – second place 2005 Jakarta Girls' doubles
Silver medal – second place 2004 Hwacheon Mixed doubles
Silver medal – second place 2004 Hwacheon Girls' team
Bronze medal – third place 2005 Jakarta Girls' team
Bronze medal – third place 2004 Hwacheon Girls' doubles
BWF profile

Career

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Ha was competed at the 2004 World Junior Championships in Richmond, Canada, reached the semi-finals round in the girs' singles and doubles event.[5] At the 2004 and 2005 Asian Junior Championships, she achieved the best result by winning the 2005 mixed doubles title partnered with Lee Yong-dae.[6] Ha junior was selected to join at the Korean national women's team, compete at the 2004 Uber Cup in Jakarta Indonesia. The team finished as the runner-up losing to China with the score 3–1.[7]

In 2010, Ha with her women's doubles partner, Lee Kyung-won, became the semi-finalists in Korea Open Super Series, and with Ko Sung-hyun in the mixed event, they only reached the quarter-finals. In All England, Ha and Ko suffered a first-round defeat to Zheng Bo and Ma Jin of China 17–21 and 12–21. Meanwhile, Ha and Lee, seeded seventh, vanquished Indonesia's Shendy Puspa Irawati and Nitya Krishinda Maheswari in straight sets, 21–18 and 21–18, before bowing out to Chinese third seeds, Cheng Shu and Zhao Yunlei in the semi-finals.

The next week's tournament in Switzerland brought unsatisfying result for Ha and Ko as they lost to the eventual finalists and their countrymen, Shin Baek-cheol and Yoo Hyun-young, in a tough three-setter, 21–19, 9–21, 19–21. However, in the women's event, Ha and Lee succeeded to their third semi-final of 2010, edging fourth-seeded Petya Nedeltcheva and Anastasia Russkikh out with a 21–17 and 21–11 win. Ha and Lee fought hard in the semi-final but finally lost 21–13, 19–21, and 20–22 to Miyuki Maeda and Satoko Suetsuna of Japan. Ha played for the Korean Uber Cup team on May 9–16. She and Lee Kyung-won defeated Yu Yang and Du Jing of China in the final 19–21, 21–14, and 21–19, giving the first Uber Cup for Korea.

In 2011, Ha paired up with Lee Yong-dae again and they won the U.S. Open Grand Prix Gold title in July. In the women's doubles event, she also won the Grand Prix Gold title in Swiss, U.S., and Chinese Taipei partnered with Kim Min-jung. She and Kim was qualified at the Superseries Finals, and finished in the second place after losing a match to Wang Xiaoli and Yu Yang.

At the 2012 Summer Olympics, Ha and her partner Kim Min-jung, along with Jung Kyung-eun and Kim Ha-na of South Korea, Wang Xiaoli and Yu Yang of China, and Meiliana Jauhari and Greysia Polii of Indonesia were disqualified from the competition for "not using one's best efforts to win a match" and "conducting oneself in a manner that is clearly abusive or detrimental to the sport" following matches the previous evening during which they were accused of trying to lose in order to manipulate the draw.[8] Ha and her partner Kim Min-jung played against Indonesia's Meiliana Jauhari and Greysia Polii.[9] It is suspected that the Koreans emulated China so to avoid playing against another Korean team in the semi-finals; the Korean head coach Sung Han-kook said "Because they don't want to play the semi-final against each other, so we did the same. We didn't want to play the South Korean team again".[9][10] South Korea filed an appeal to the case, but it was rejected by the Badminton World Federation.[8]

Achievements

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BWF World Championships

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Mixed doubles

Year Venue Partner Opponent Score Result
2010 Stade Pierre de Coubertin,
Paris, France
  Ko Sung-hyun   Zheng Bo
  Ma Jin
21–15, 11–21, 16–21   Bronze

World Cup

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Women's doubles

Year Venue Partner Opponent Score Result
2005 Olympic Park, Yiyang, China   Kim Min-jung   Wei Yili
  Zhang Yawen
11–21, 13–21   Bronze

Asian Games

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Women's doubles

Year Venue Partner Opponent Score Result
2010 Tianhe Gymnasium,
Guangzhou, China
  Lee Kyung-won   Wang Xiaoli
  Yu Yang
17–21, 14–21   Bronze

Asian Championships

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Women's doubles

Year Venue Partner Opponent Score Result
2011 Sichuan Gymnasium,
Chengdu, China
  Kim Min-jung   Tian Qing
  Zhao Yunlei
15–21, 21–19, 17–21   Bronze

World Junior Championships

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Girls' singles

Year Venue Opponent Score Result
2004 Minoru Arena,
Richmond, Canada
  Cheng Shao-chieh 4–11, 2–11   Bronze

Girls' doubles

Year Venue Partner Opponent Score Result
2004 Minoru Arena,
Richmond, Canada
  Oh Seul-ki   Feng Chen
  Pan Pan
10–15, 9–15   Bronze

Asian Junior Championships

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Girls' doubles

Year Venue Partner Opponent Score Result
2005 Tennis Indoor Senayan,
Jakarta, Indonesia
  Hong Soo-jung   Cheng Shu
  Liao Jingmei
15–11, 12–15, 5–15   Silver
2004 Hwacheon Indoor Stadium,
Hwacheon, South Korea
  Oh Seul-ki   Ding Jiao
  Zhao Yunlei
6–15, 12–15   Bronze

Mixed doubles

Year Venue Partner Opponent Score Result
2005 Tennis Indoor Senayan,
Jakarta, Indonesia
  Lee Yong-dae   Zhang Wei
  Liao Jingmei
11–15, 15–8, 15–2   Gold
2004 Hwacheon Indoor Stadium,
Hwacheon, South Korea
  Yoo Yeon-seong   Shen Ye
  Feng Chen
11–15, 6–15   Silver

BWF Superseries

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The BWF Superseries, launched on 14 December 2006 and implemented in 2007,[11] 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,[12] with successful players invited to the Superseries Finals held at the year end.

Women's doubles

Year Tournament Partner Opponent Score Result
2012 Malaysia Open   Kim Min-jung   Christinna Pedersen
  Kamilla Rytter Juhl
19–21, 18–21   Runner-up
2012 Korea Open   Kim Min-jung   Tian Qing
  Zhao Yunlei
18–21, 13–21   Runner-up
2011 Superseries Finals   Kim Min-jung   Wang Xiaoli
  Yu Yang
8–21, 12–21   Runner-up
2011 Singapore Open   Kim Min-jung   Tian Qing
  Zhao Yunlei
13–21, 16–21   Runner-up

Mixed doubles

Year Tournament Partner Opponent Score Result
2012 Korea Open   Lee Yong-dae   Xu Chen
  Ma Jin
12–21, 21–19, 10–21   Runner-up
2009 All England Open   Ko Sung-hyun   He Hanbin
  Yu Yang
21–13, 15–21, 9–21   Runner-up
  BWF Superseries Finals tournament
  BWF Superseries Premier tournament
  BWF Superseries tournament

BWF Grand Prix

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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
2011 Chinese Taipei Open   Kim Min-jung   Meiliana Jauhari
  Greysia Polii
17–21, 21–18, 2–0 Retired   Winner
2011 U.S. Open   Kim Min-jung   Jung Kyung-eun
  Kim Ha-na
14–21, 22–20, 21–18   Winner
2011 Swiss Open   Kim Min-jung   Jung Kyung-eun
  Kim Ha-na
21–12, 21–13   Winner
2011 German Open   Kim Min-jung   Mizuki Fujii
  Reika Kakiiwa
6–21, 14–21   Runner-up
2003 U.S. Open   Lee Eun-woo   Yoshiko Iwata
  Miyuki Tai
5–15, 4–15   Runner-up

Mixed doubles

Year Tournament Partner Opponent Score Result
2012 German Open   Lee Yong-dae   Thomas Laybourn
  Kamilla Rytter Juhl
9–21, 16–21   Runner-up
2011 U.S. Open   Lee Yong-dae   Chen Hung-ling
  Cheng Wen-hsing
21–19, 21–13   Winner
  BWF Grand Prix Gold tournament
  BWF & IBF tournament

BWF International Challenge/Series/Satellite

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Women's singles

Year Tournament Opponent Score Result
2003 Canadian International   Lee Eun-woo 2–11, 11–7, 1–11   Runner-up
2003 Hungarian International   Susan Hughes 4–11, 4–11   Runner-up

Women's doubles

Year Tournament Partner Opponent Score Result
2009 Korea International   Lee Kyung-won   Yoo Hyun-young
  Jung Kyung-eun
19–21, 10–21   Runner-up
2008 Korea International   Kim Min-jung   Jang Ye-na
  Kim Mi-young
21–15, 21–14   Winner
2008 Osaka International   Kim Min-jung   Kumiko Ogura
  Reiko Shiota
22–20, 8–21, 13–21   Runner-up
2007 Canadian International   Hwang Yu-mi   Joo Hyun-hee
  Oh Seul-ki
21–16, 21–7   Winner
2007 Cheers Asian Satellite   Kim Min-jung   Richi Puspita Dili
  Yulianti CJ
21–18, 21–12   Winner
2007 Vietnam International   Kim Min-jung   Richi Puspita Dili
  Yulianti CJ
17–21, 21–9, 16–21   Runner-up
2005 Cheers Asian Satellite   Kim Min-jung   Jiang Yanmei
  Li Yujia
3–15, 1–15   Runner-up
2005 Surabaya Satellite   Kim Min-jung   Nitya Krishinda Maheswari
  Nadya Melati
15–13, 15–0   Winner
2005 Mongolian Satellite   Oh Seul-ki   Tao Xiaolan
  Wu Bei
  Runner-up
2005 Vietnam Satellite   Oh Seul-ki   Kang Hae-won
  Kim Min-jung
15–6, 7–15, 15–5   Runner-up
2005 Canadian International   Oh Seul-ki   Jun Woul-sik
  Ra Kyung-min
5–15, 9–15   Runner-up
2003 Canadian International   Lee Eun-woo   Jang Soo-young
  Kim Mi-young
1–15, 17–16, 15–9   Winner
2003 Norwegian International   Oh Seul-ki   Jang Soo-young
  Kim Mi-young
15–6, 15–2   Winner

Mixed doubles

Year Tournament Partner Opponent Score Result
2009 Korea International   Ko Sung-hyun   Lee Yong-dae
  Lee Hyo-jung
14–21, 21–15, 9–21   Runner-up
2008 Osaka International   Kwon Yi-goo   Noriyasu Hirata
  Shizuka Matsuo
24–22, 21–13   Winner
2007 Cheers Asian Satellite   Yoo Yeon-seong   Cho Gun-woo
  Kim Min-jung
19–21, 15–21   Runner-up
2005 Cheers Asian Satellite   Lee Yong-dae   Hendri Kurniawan Saputra
  Li Yujia
6–15, 8–15   Runner-up
2005 Mongolian Satellite   Lee Yong-dae   Wang Wei
  Tao Xiaolan
15–7, 15–11   Winner
2005 Vietnam Satellite   Jeon Jun-bum   Hwang Ji-man
  Oh Seul-ki
15–7, 6–15, 12–15   Runner-up
2005 Canadian International   Kang Kyung-jin   Han Sung-wook
  Joo Hyun-hee
15–12, 15–13   Winner
  BWF International Challenge tournament
  BWF International Series tournament

References

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  1. ^ "Players: Ha Jung Eun". Badminton World Federation. Retrieved January 17, 2018.
  2. ^ "Ha Jeong-Eun". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on April 17, 2020. Retrieved January 17, 2018.
  3. ^ "여자배드민턴 5전6기 우승 "최강 중국 꺾었다"" (in Korean). Maeil Business Newspaper. Retrieved January 17, 2018.
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  7. ^ "China Retains Fourth Consecutive Uber Cup Title". badminton klub Bit. Retrieved January 17, 2018.
  8. ^ a b "BBC Sport - Olympics badminton: Eight women disqualified from doubles". Bbc.co.uk. August 1, 2012.
  9. ^ a b Reports: Eight Badminton Players Tossed Out Of Olympics
  10. ^ London 2012 Olympics: Badminton players charged with misconduct after appearing to try to lose their games
  11. ^ "BWF Launches Super Series". Badminton Australia. December 15, 2006.
  12. ^ "Yonex All England Elevated To BWF Premier Super Series Event". Badmintonstore.com. Retrieved September 29, 2013.
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