Francesca Corbett

Corbett has been competing in badminton since she was six. She won gold medals in girls' singles and doubles events for U11, U15 and U17 categories at the Pan Am Junior Championships in 2015, 2017, and 2019 respectively.^[2] In late 2019, Corbett and her partner Allison Lee won the National Adult Championships women's doubles title, becoming the youngest pair to ever be crowned as national champions.^[3] She was then chosen to represent the USA's women's team at the 2020 Pan Am Male & Female Cup in February. The team bagged silver after losing to Canada in the final.^[4]

In May, Corbett and Lee entered the final of 2021 Pan Am Championships and finished as runners-up.^[5] In the following month, she competed in the National Junior Championships. She won gold in the girls' doubles U19 event with Lee, another gold in the mixed doubles U17 event with Samuel Li, as well as a bronze in the girls' singles U19 event.^[6]

In July, Corbett helped team USA to win gold in the mixed team event at the 2021 Pan Am Junior Championships.^[7] She then won gold with Lee in the women's doubles U19 event. She also picked up bronze in the mixed doubles U17 event partnering Li.^[8] In September, Corbett and Lee captured their first senior career title at the Guatemala International.^[9]

Corbett was part of the USA's women's team that won gold at the 2022 Pan Am Male & Female Cup in February.^[10][11] In April, she and Lee won a bronze medal at the 2022 Pan Am Championships.^[12] In August, they made their World Championships debut at the 2022 World Championships.

In April, Corbett and Lee clinched their second silver medal at the 2023 Pan Am Championships.^[13] They also reached the final of the Mexican International the following week.^[14] In October, the duo made history by becoming the first player or pair from the US to earn a World Junior Championships medal when they reached the girls' doubles semi-final at the 2023 World Junior Championships.^[15] They went on to win silver, falling to Japan's Maya Taguchi and Aya Tamaki in the final.^[16][17]

Corbett partnered with Jennie Gai beginning in 2025.^[18] The pair achieved a breakthrough result at the Australian Open in November, reaching the semifinals of a BWF World Tour Super 500 tournament for the first time—a rare accomplishment for a United States women's doubles pair.^[19] In the quarterfinals, the world No. 38 ranked duo rallied from a first-game loss to defeat 29th-ranked Hu Ling Fang and Jheng Yu Chieh of Chinese Taipei 10–21, 21–10, 21–12.^[19] They were eliminated in the semifinals by Indonesia's Rachel Allessya Rose and Febi Setianingrum, losing 18–21, 19–21.^[20]