Kristen Tsai
Kristen Tsai is a Taiwanese born Canadian badminton player. She is the women's doubles champion at the [Badminton at the Badminton at the 2019 Pan American Games – Women's doubles|2019 Pan American Games|2019 Pan American Games], fifth time Pan Am Champion winning the women's singles title in 2012, and then the women's doubles title in 2018, 2019, 2021, and 2022.
Career
Tsai became the first Canadian ever to make in to the quarterfinals at the World Junior Championships. Lived in Vancouver, British Columbia, she trained at the ClearOne badminton club, and majored in criminology at the Simon Fraser University. She won her first Pan Am Championships title in 2012 in the women's singles event, and after that Tsai spent a full 4 years – between the 2013 and 2017 Canada Opens – away from international competition. In 2018, she competed at the Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia. She won gold medal at the Pan American Games in the women's doubles partnered with Rachel Honderich, and a silver medal in the mixed doubles with Nyl Yakura in 2019 Lima.In 2021, she captured her fourth Pan Am Championships title by winning the women's doubles event partnered with Rachel Honderich.
In June 2021, Tsai was named to Canada's Olympic team.
In December 2022, Tsai suffered an ACL and MCL rupture while competing in the S/J league in Japan. She had ACL reconstruction surgery in March 2023.
Achievements
Pan American Games
Women's doubles| Year | Venue | Partner | Opponent | Score | Result | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2019 | Polideportivo 3, Lima, Peru |  Pan Am ChampionshipsWomen's singles
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