Juliane Schenk

Juliane Schenk
Personal information
Country	Germany
Born	(1982-11-26) 26 November 1982 (age 42) Krefeld, West Germany
Height	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Retired	2014
Handedness	Right
Women's singles
Career record	516 wins, 269 losses
Highest ranking	2 (20 June 2013)
Medal record Women's badminton Representing  Germany World Championships 2011 London Women's singles Uber Cup 2008 Jakarta Women's team European Championships 2010 Manchester Women's singles 2012 Karlskrona Women's singles 2006 Den Bosch Women's doubles 2008 Herning Women's singles 2006 Den Bosch Women's singles 2004 Geneva Women's doubles European Mixed Team Championships 2011 Amsterdam Mixed team 2004 Geneva Mixed team European Women's Team Championships 2012 Amsterdam Women's team 2010 Warsaw Women's team 2008 Almere Women's team 2006 Thessalonica Women's team European Junior Championships 2001 Spała Girls' singles 2001 Spała Mixed team 2001 Spała Girls' doubles
BWF profile

Juliane Schenk (born 26 November 1982) is a German badminton player. In March 2014 she retired from international play.^[1]

In 2001, she won the European Junior Championships in women's singles. 2003 saw her win the women's doubles with Nicole Grether in two tournaments, the Irish International and the Bitburger Open.

Schenk played badminton at the 2004 Summer Olympics, losing in women's singles to Tracey Hallam of Great Britain in the round of 32. She also won the German championship in the women's doubles with Grether for the first time.

She also competed in women's doubles with partner Grether. They defeated Michelle Edwards and Chantal Botts of South Africa in the first round but were defeated by Ann-Lou Jørgensen and Rikke Olsen of Denmark in the round of 16.

She won the bronze medal at the 2008 European Badminton Championships.^[2]

In 2008, Schenk competed in the Beijing Olympics. She narrowly lost her first round match against Indonesian Maria Kristin Yulianti who later won the bronze medal.

Schenk nearly reached a bronze medal in the World Championship in Hyderabad in women's singles but lost to French Pi Hongyan in the final set, 19:21. It would have been another medal for German women after the shared bronze medals of Xu Huaiwen and Petra Overzier in 2006.

In 2010 European Badminton Championships, Schenk beat 1st seed Pi Hongyan to proceed to the final. She settled for silver after losing to Tine Rasmussen in three sets. In 2012 European Badminton Championships, she lost to Baun again in the final. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she reached the last 16, being beaten by Ratchanok Intanon.

Schenk became an independent professional player in June, having severed ties with the German Badminton Association (DBV). Despite being left in the lurch, Schenk showed great determination to reach the Indonesian Open final in June. She did that with just one training session. In the first inaugural edition of the Indian Badminton League, held from 14 August 2013 to 31 August, Schenk joined Pune Pistons with a reported salary of $90,000.

Schenk also signed a contract with the Xiamen Tefang Badminton Club to compete in the 2013–2014 China Badminton Super League. She was beaten by Sun Yu from Guangzhou Huizhou Weihao 11–8 and 11–5, and later at the end of the year she was beaten by Wang Yihan 12–10, 6–11, 11–6.

In early 2014 in the China Badminton Super League, Schenk was beaten by Wang Shixian representing Jiangsu, 11–5, 11–5. Schenk had announced on her website earlier in the year that she was intent on getting out of the top ten so that she could avoid paying fines for missing Superseries Premier events. She retired the first round in 2014 Malaysia Super Series Premier against Minatsu Mitani and had a walkover to Beiwen Zhang in 2014 All England Super Series Premier. She told the Rheinische Post that she would be working as a personal trainer, that she was studying at the University of Cologne, and that she was writing a book.

At the end of April, she lost to Liu Xin in China Badminton League.

Women's singles

Year	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result
2011	Wembley Arena, London, England	Cheng Shao-chieh	18–21, 6–21	Bronze

Women's singles

Year	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result
2006	Maaspoort Sports and Events, Den Bosch, Netherlands	Mia Audina	14–21, 16–21	Bronze
2008	Messecenter, Herning, Denmark	Tine Rasmussen	6–21, 21–16, 13–21	Bronze
2010	Manchester Evening News Arena, Manchester, England	Tine Rasmussen	19–21, 21–14, 18–21	Silver
2012	Telenor Arena, Karlskrona, Sweden	Tine Baun	19–21, 21–16, 19–21	Silver

Women's doubles

Year	Venue	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2004	Queue d’Arve Sport Center, Geneva, Switzerland	Nicole Grether	Ann-Lou Jørgensen Rikke Olsen	12–15, 10–15	Bronze
2006	Maaspoort Sports and Events, Den Bosch, Netherlands	Nicole Grether	Donna Kellogg Gail Emms	12–21, 10–21	Silver

Girls' singles

Year	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result
2001	Spała Olympic Center, Spała, Poland	Kamila Augustyn	11–2, 11–9	Gold

Girls' doubles

Year	Venue	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2001	Spała Olympic Center, Spała, Poland	Carina Mette	Kamila Augustyn Nadieżda Kostiuczyk	2–15, 7–15	Silver

The BWF Superseries, which was launched on 14 December 2006 and implemented in 2007,^[3] was a series of elite badminton tournaments, sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation (BWF). BWF Superseries levels were Superseries and Superseries Premier. A season of Superseries consisted of twelve tournaments around the world that had been introduced since 2011.^[4] Successful players were invited to the Superseries Finals, which were held at the end of each year.

Women's singles

Year	Tournament	Opponent	Score	Result
2009	Superseries Finals	Wong Mew Choo	15–21, 7–21	Runner-up
2011	Japan Open	Wang Yihan	16–21, 14–21	Runner-up
2012	India Open	Li Xuerui	21–14, 17–21, 8–21	Runner-up
2012	Singapore Open	Cheng Shao-chieh	21–11, 26–24	Winner
2012	Denmark Open	Saina Nehwal	17–21, 8–21	Runner-up
2013	India Open	Ratchanok Intanon	20–22, 14–21	Runner-up
2013	Indonesia Open	Li Xuerui	16–21, 21–18, 17–21	Runner-up

  Superseries tournament

  Superseries Premier tournament

  Superseries Finals tournament

The BWF Grand Prix had two levels, the Grand Prix and Grand Prix Gold. It was a series of badminton tournaments sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation (BWF) and played between 2007 and 2017. The World Badminton Grand Prix was sanctioned by the International Badminton Federation from 1983 to 2006.

Women's singles

Year	Tournament	Opponent	Score	Result
2005	Thessaloniki Grand Prix	Xu Huaiwen	2–11, 5–11	Runner-up
2007	Bitburger Open	Wang Yihan	21–16, 10–21, 17–21	Runner-up
2009	Bitburger Open	Yu Hirayama	21–18, 21–10	Winner
2010	German Open	Wang Xin	17–21, 18–21	Runner-up
2010	Canada Open	Zhu Lin	19–21, 21–17, 10–21	Runner-up
2010	Dutch Open	Yao Jie	21–13, 14–21, 21–15	Winner
2012	German Open	Li Xuerui	19–21, 18–21	Runner-up
2012	Bitburger Open	Yao Jie	21–10, 15–21, 25–23	Winner
2013	German Open	Wang Yihan	14–21, 13–21	Runner-up

Women's doubles

Year	Tournament	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2005	Bitburger Open	Nicole Grether	Ikue Tatani Aya Wakisaka	Walkover	Winner

  BWF Grand Prix Gold tournament

  BWF & IBF Grand Prix tournament

Women's singles

Year	Tournament	Opponent	Score	Result
2011	Morocco International	Carolina Marín	17–21, 13–21	Runner-up
2010	Belgian International	Elizabeth Cann	21–7, 21–5	Winner
2010	Spanish Open	Judith Meulendijks	21–16, 21–12	Winner
2009	Norwegian International	Rachel van Cutsen	21–12, 19–21, 21–11	Winner
2009	Finnish International	Judith Meulendijks	21–13, 21–13	Winner
2009	Dutch International	Petya Nedelcheva	21–12, 21–16	Winner
2009	Austrian International	Petya Nedelcheva	20–22, 21–8, 22–20	Winner
2008	Italian International	Larisa Griga	15–21, 21–13, 21–17	Winner
2008	Belgian International	Susan Hughes	21–12, 21–18	Winner
2008	Polish International	Petya Nedelcheva	21–16, 21–7	Winner
2008	White Nights	Xu Huaiwen	15–21, 21–15, 19–21	Runner-up
2007	Italian International	Sara Persson	21–16, 21–6	Winner
2007	Norwegian International	Larisa Griga	21–12, 21–17	Winner
2007	Turkey International	Petya Nedelcheva	14–21, 21–12 retired	Winner
2007	Spanish Open	Judith Meulendijks	21–19, 12–21, 21–14	Winner
2006	Finnish International	Li Wenyan	21–19, 14–21, 17–21	Runner-up
2006	Austrian International	Sara Persson	21–19, 21–13	Winner
2006	Dutch International	Petra Overzier	21–18, 19–21, 18–21	Runner-up
2005	Norwegian International	Petra Overzier	11–6, 13–11	Winner
2005	Belgian International	Xu Huaiwen	4–11, 1–11	Runner-up
2005	Irish International	Ella Karachkova	3–11, 8–11	Runner-up

Women's doubles

Year	Tournament	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2007	Turkey International	Nicole Grether	Diana Dimova Petya Nedelcheva	Walkover	Winner
2007	Spanish Open	Nicole Grether	Natalie Munt Joanne Nicholas	21–11, 20–22, 25–23	Winner
2006	Dutch International	Nicole Grether	Kamilla Rytter Juhl Lena Frier Kristiansen	21–8, 21–12	Winner
2005	Norwegian International	Nicole Grether	Lim Pek Siah Ang Li Peng	15–8, 15–6	Winner
2005	Belgian International	Nicole Grether	Michaela Peiffer Birgit Overzier	15–6, 15–1	Winner
2005	Dutch International	Nicole Grether	Elin Bergblom Johanna Persson	15–4, 15–9	Winner
2003	Irish International	Nicole Grether	Liza Parker Suzanne Rayappan	15–0, 15–1	Winner
2003	Scottish International	Nicole Grether	Kumiko Ogura Reiko Shiota	15–8, 11–15, 12–15	Runner-up
2003	Mauritius International	Nicole Grether	Seiko Yamada Shizuka Yamamoto	15–9, 15–4	Winner
2003	Bitburger International	Nicole Grether	Kamila Augustyn Nadieżda Kostiuczyk	15–9, 10–15, 15–12	Winner
2002	Irish International	Nicole Grether	Ella Tripp Joanne Wright	4–11, 11–8, 7–11	Runner-up
2002	Scottish International	Nicole Grether	Yuan Wemyss Kirsteen McEwan	Walkover	Runner-up
2002	Dutch International	Carina Mette	Tine Høy Karina Sørensen	7–4, 7–8, 2–7, 8–7, 7–5	Winner

  BWF International Challenge tournament

  BWF International Series tournament

Record against year-end Finals finalists, World Championships semi-finalists, and Olympic quarter-finalists.^[5]

• Pictures of Juliane Schenk at Badmintonfotos.de