[note 1] Tai was the women's singles silver medalist in the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and the 2021 BWF World Championships.

[6] Tai's career began when she was in elementary school, as she was influenced by her father who was a firefighter and the director of Kaohsiung city's badminton committee.

[8] In 2009, she won the silver medal at the Asian Junior Championships, losing the final match to Chen Xiaojia in straight games.

[9] Young Tai began to show her potential when she was 15 years old, as she was able to compete at the senior level and become runner-up at the Vietnam Open a Grand Prix tournament.

In April, she participated at the World Junior Championships in Mexico, but had to retire in the quarter-finals of 9–16 places due to injury.

[8] In June, she experienced the most memorable thing during her career as a badminton player, when she reached her first Superseries final on her birthday in Singapore Open.

[8][13] She also reached the semi-finals of the Canada,[14] Vietnam,[15] and French Open, where in France, she defeated China's number 1 Wang Shixian in the quarter-finals.

[17] In the early half of 2012 season, her best achievements were the reaching the semi-finals in the All England Open, and ranked as world number 16.

The 18-year-old, ranked 13th in the world and seeded 10th won all matches in the group stage defeating Anu Nieminen of Finland and Victoria Montero of Mexico.

[20] She was expected to near the upper echelons and future of the women's game by her victory in Japan and increasingly impressive performances by significant wins over some of the top players.

[21] In November, she competed as the top-seeded player at the World Junior Championships in Chiba, Japan, but fell in the quarter-finals to Sun Yu.

[24] In other tournaments in the first half of 2013 season, she often experienced defeat in the quarter-finals such as in the Germany,[25] Switzerland,[26] Asian Championships,[27] Indonesia,[28] Singapore, as well with her teammate in the Sudirman Cup.

Tai then competed in the Summer Universiade, won the silver in the women's singles and bronze in the team event.

[31] She next played in the East Asian Games in Tianjin,[32] won a silver medal in the women's team event.

Tai qualified to the Superseries Finals, she defeated Sung Ji-hyun and Porntip Buranaprasertsuk but lost to Wang Shixian in the group stage.

[34] Tai represented her country at the 2014 Asian Games and won Taiwan's first badminton medal by finishing as the third place.

[35] She reached her first finals in the Superseries event in the Japan Open, but still unable to defeat the world number 1 Li Xuerui.

Tai decided to attend the 2017 Summer Universiade not only out of a desire to earn a title for her home country but also for the bigger picture.

[40][41] Since the Summer Universiade was by far the biggest sporting event held in her home country, only second to the Olympic Games, Tai wanted to welcome the world to see Taiwan.

[52] In 2018, Tai started the season by participating in the Malaysian Master in which she defeated Chen Yufei in the quarter-finals and Carolina Marín in a thrilling semi-finals, coming from a game down, but lost to Ratchanok Intanon in the final.

[54] But in her next tournament, the Asian Championships, she won the title after defeating Chen Yufei in the final in Wuhan and regained her world no 1 ranking.

[64] In 2019, she reached the quarter-final stage of the Malaysia Masters, losing to the same opponent of last year and arch-rival Ratchanok Intanon in straight games.

[4][79] She had to settle for the second best at the two consecutive Thailand Open Super 1000 events in January, 2021 after losing to Carolina Marín in both occasions in straight games.

Tai then made the final of the Tokyo Olympics, and won a silver medal after being defeated by the top seed Chen Yufei in an intense match, 18–21, 21–19, 18–21.

In the final, she defeated another Chinese player, Wang Zhiyi, and she successfully claim her third Indonesia Open title.

[86] She won her fourth Taipei Open title with a straight game win over Saena Kawakami in the final.

In the final she lost to Akane Yamaguchi, who was in great form at the time and had won the World Championships for two consecutive years, and finished second.

Tai has clocked fast smashes, with one of the fastest recorded being 360 km/h at the 2016 All England Open quarter-finals,[90] despite her preference of playing slowly to set up shots.