High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ye Zhaoying is a retired women's singles badminton player from Zhejiang, the People's Republic of China who rates as one of the finest that China or any nation has produced. Officially ranked as the number one player in the world for the first time in December 1995, she lost but regained that ranking several times during her career. Her best years as a world-class player overlapped those of the slightly older Susi Susanti and Bang Soo-hyun, in what some see as a "golden" era in women's badminton. She retired after the Sydney (2000) Olympic Games. Her main achievements include winning the World Grand Prix in 1995, 1997 and 1999, the IBF World Championships in 1995 and 1997, and the IBF World Cup in 1995. She also played on Chinese teams that won the Uber Cup in 1992, 1998 and 2000 and Sudirman Cup in 1995, 1997 and 1999. And she won the prestigious All-England title in 1997, 1998 and 1999.