吳芷柔

English

Ng Tsz Yau is a Hong Kong badminton player born in Hong Kong on 24 April 1998 who plays women's singles, women's doubles and mixed doubles, and is known for her delicate control at the net. Encouraged by her family, she took up the sport at the age of five and first played internationally in 2012. From 2013 she partnered Yeung Nga Ting in women's doubles, and in 2015 the pair won women's doubles bronze at the first National Youth Games. Her highest world ranking reached No.28, and she has more than 220 career wins. In recent years she has focused on mixed doubles. In 2025 she partnered Tang Chun-man to win the mixed doubles at the Vietnam International Challenge, and in 2026, paired with Chan Yin Chak, she was mixed doubles runner-up at the Singapore International Challenge in March before winning the mixed doubles at the Vietnam International Challenge later that month. At the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games she and Chan Yin Chak played the mixed doubles, losing in the second round to China's Jiang Zhenbang and Wei Yaxin. She was also selected for the Hong Kong delegation at the Hangzhou Asian Games. She is currently a student on the Bachelor of Health Education (Honours) programme at The Education University of Hong Kong and is one of its elite athlete students; in 2024 she reached the final of the senior women's doubles at the Hong Kong Annual Badminton Championships.