“When I think I'm good, I find out I'm actually not.”

—  Beiwen Zhang

"Underdog Zhang defies odds to script biggest win" in ESPN https://www.espn.in/badminton/story/_/id/22318386/underdog-zhang-defies-odds-script-biggest-win (4 February 2018)

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