the Dutch Fource team, together with Dutch top players Dicky Palyama, Judith Meulendijks and Eric Pang. This team was formed as a result of a conflict with the Nederlandse Badminton Bond sponsored by Yonex, and these four players were non Yonex sponsored players, Yao Jie playing for sponsor Carlton. The conflict heightened in 2011 when these four non Yonex sponsored players were not included in the National squad to play the European Team Championships in Amsterdam. Despite all these juridical sponsor wranglings, Yao Jie managed to qualify for the London Olympics. At the 2012 Olympic Games in the Women's Singles Yao Jie won Group F by beating Akvilė Stapušaitytė of Lithuania 21–16, 21–7 and Ragna Ingólfsdóttir of Iceland 21–12, 25–23. After the group stage, in the knock-out stage round of 16 Yao Jie lost to Saina Nehwal of India 14–21, 16–21. Saina later progressed to win India's first Olympic badminton medal, a bronze. Nowadays Yao Jie has her own Badminton Academy at her hometown Wuhan in China and is ambassador for Dutch Badminton in sports and cultural exchanges between the Netherlands and China. Achievements World Cup Women's singles European Championships Women's singles World Junior Championships Girls' doubles Mixed doubles BWF Grand Prix 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 BWF Grand Prix Gold tournament IBF/BWF Grand Prix tournament BWF International Challenge/Series Women's singles BWF International Challenge tournament IBF International tournament Record Against Selected Opponents Includes results from all competitions against Super Series finalists, World Championship semifinalists, Olympic quarterfinalists, and all Olympic opponents. Petya Nedelcheva 7–4 Gong Ruina 0–2 Gong Zhichao 0–1 Jiang Yanjiao 0–10 Li Xuerui 0–2 Liu Xin 1–0 Lu Lan 1–3 Wang Lin 0–2 Wang Shixian 0–3 Wang Xin 0–2 Wang Yihan 1–3 Xie Xingfang 2–4 Ye Zhaoying 0–1 Zhang Ning 3–8 Zhu Lin 1–2 Cheng Shao-chieh 1–2 Tai Tzu-ying 1–1 Tine Baun 5–3 Camilla Martin 1–4 Tracey Hallam 3–0 Pi Hongyan 3–12 Juliane Schenk 2–4 Xu Huaiwen 3–6 Wang Chen 0–1 Yip Pui Yin 3–6 Zhou Mi 0–7 Ragna Ingólfsdóttir 1–0 Saina Nehwal 2–4 Maria Kristin Yulianti 0–2 Eriko Hirose 2–4 Sayaka Sato 1–0 Shizuka Uchida 2–0 Bae Youn-joo 1–4 Sung Ji-hyun