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2019 World Table Tennis Championships – Women's Doubles
The women's doubles competition of the 2019 World Table Tennis Championships was held from 22 to 28 April 2019. Ding Ning and Liu Shiwen were the defending champions but neither of them competed this year. Sun Yingsha and Wang Manyu won the final by defeating Hina Hayata and Mima Ito 8–11, 3–11, 11–8, 11–,3, 12–10, 11–8. Seeds # Hina Hayata / Mima Ito ''(Final)'' # Sun Yingsha / Wang Manyu (Champions) # Honoka Hashimoto / Hitomi Sato ''(Semifinals)'' # Chen Meng / Zhu Yuling ''(Semifinals)'' # Doo Hoi Kem / Lee Ho Ching ''(Quarterfinals)'' # Ng Wing Nam / Soo Wai Yam Minnie ''(Third round)'' # Barbora Balážová / Hana Matelová ''(First round)'' # Elizabeta Samara / Bernadette Szőcs ''(Third round)'' # Jeon Ji-hee / Lee Zion ''(Third round)'' # Matilda Ekholm / Georgina Póta ''(Second round)'' # Yue Wu / Lily Zhang ''(Second round)'' # Cheng Hsien-tzu / Liu Hsing-yin ''(Quarterfinals)'' # Dóra Madarász / Szandra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Budapest
Budapest (, ; ) is the capital and most populous city of Hungary. It is the ninth-largest city in the European Union by population within city limits and the second-largest city on the Danube river; the city has an estimated population of 1,752,286 over a land area of about . Budapest, which is both a city and county, forms the centre of the Budapest metropolitan area, which has an area of and a population of 3,303,786; it is a primate city, constituting 33% of the population of Hungary. The history of Budapest began when an early Celtic settlement transformed into the Roman town of Aquincum, the capital of Lower Pannonia. The Hungarians arrived in the territory in the late 9th century, but the area was pillaged by the Mongols in 1241–42. Re-established Buda became one of the centres of Renaissance humanist culture by the 15th century. The Battle of Mohács, in 1526, was followed by nearly 150 years of Ottoman rule. After the reconquest of Buda in 1686, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ng Wing Nam
Venus Ng Wing Nam (; born 9 August 1992) is a Hong Kong table tennis player. Since 2007, she became a full time athlete in Hong Kong Sports Institute. Her highest career ITTF ranking was 28 in July 2014. She was the first local player to win medals at the Asian Table Tennis Championships and the ITTF World Tour Grand Finals. Early years Ng studied at Heep Yunn School in her early years. She chose to become a full-time athlete and entered the Hong Kong Institute of Sports for training. She dropped out at 15 years old to pursue a full-time athletic career. The coaches are the former Chinese table tennis team and the Hong Kong table tennis team. Since 2013, Ng's main coach changed from Li Hui fen to the Li Ching, he was 2004 Athens Olympic men's doubles silver medal. 2012 In 2012, as a local player, Ng won the bronze medal for Hong Kong in the women's doubles at the Asian Table Tennis Championships. In the same year, she also participated in the women's team competition at t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liu Hsing-yin
/ ( or ) is an East Asian surname. pinyin: in Mandarin Chinese, in Cantonese. It is the family name of the Han dynasty emperors. The character originally meant 'kill', but is now used only as a surname. It is listed 252nd in the classic text Hundred Family Surnames. Today, it is the 4th most common surname in Mainland China as well as one of the most common surnames in the world. Distribution In 2019 劉 was the fourth most common surname in Mainland China. Additionally, it was the most common surname in Jiangxi province. In 2013 it was found to be the 5th most common surname, shared by 67,700,000 people or 5.1% of the population, with the province with the most people being Shandong.中国四百大姓, 袁义达, 邱家儒, Beijing Book Co. Inc., 1 January 2013 Origin One source is that they descend from the Qí (祁) clan of Emperor Yao. For example the founding emperor of the Han dynasty (one of China's golden ages), Liu Bang (Emperor Gaozu of Han) was a descendant of E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cheng Hsien-tzu
Cheng Hsien-tzu (; born 18 April 1993) is a Taiwanese table tennis player. She attended Chinese Culture University The Chinese Culture University (CCU; ) is a private Taiwanese university located in Yangmingshan in Shilin District, Taipei, Taiwan. CCU was established in 1962 and is one of the largest universities in Taiwan with an enrollment of about 32,000 .... References External links * * 1993 births Living people Taiwanese female table tennis players Chinese Culture University alumni Summer World University Games medalists in table tennis FISU World University Games silver medalists for Chinese Taipei FISU World University Games bronze medalists for Chinese Taipei Table tennis players at the 2018 Asian Games World Table Tennis Championships medalists Asian Games competitors for Chinese Taipei Taiwanese expatriate sportspeople in France Taiwanese expatriate sportspeople in Germany Sportspeople from New Taipei Medalists at the 2015 Summer Universiade ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lily Zhang
Lily Ann Zhang (born June 16, 1996) is an American table tennis player who competed in the 2012 Summer Olympics in London with teammates Ariel Hsing and Erica Wu. She also competed in the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio with teammates Jiaqi Zheng and Jennifer Wu. She is a five time US national champion in women's singles. Zhang has won the US national championship in 2012, 2014, 2016, 2017, and 2019. In 2011, she was a bronze medalist in women's singles and women's team at the Pan American Games and won the women's doubles title at the Qatar Peace and Sport Cup. She is currently a member of the United States National Women's team. She has been ranked as high as #2 in the cadet (U-15) world ranking and #5 in the junior (U-18) world ranking. Personal life Lily Zhang was born in Redwood City, California on June 16, 1996, to Chinese parents. Her family lived on the campus of Stanford University, where her father was then a mathematics professor. Her mother played for her province's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jennifer Wu
Yue "Jennifer" Wu (born January 4, 1990) is a Chinese American table tennis player originally from China who has been named to the U.S. team at the 2016 Summer Olympics. She was a gold medalist in women's team and women's singles at the 2015 Pan American Games, which qualified her for the 2016 Olympic Games. Personal life Wu grew up in Beijing, China and began playing table tennis at age 8. She moved to the United States in 2008. She was given the American name Jennifer, but says she identifies more with her given name Yue. Wu has been a resident of Fort Lee, New Jersey.Hartnett, Sean"After Taking Up Table Tennis To Improve Her Vision, New Jerseyan Now Sets Sights On Olympic Gold" WCBS-TV WCBS-TV (channel 2) is a television station in New York City, serving as the flagship of the CBS network. It is owned and operated by the network's CBS News and Stations division alongside Riverhead, New York–licensed independent station W ..., July 25, 2016. Accessed August 9, 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georgina Póta
Georgina Póta (; born 13 January 1985 in Budapest) is a multiple European Champion table tennis player from Hungary. Career Póta was born in the Hungarian capital Budapest in 1985 and began practicing table tennis in 1990. Between 1994 and 2008 she played for Statisztika PSC in Hungary, subsequently she moved to TTC Berlin Eastside. For 1998 she already played in the Hungarian Top 12 and also participated at the Table Tennis European Youth Championships in Norcia, Italy, where she finished runner-up in the Girls' Cadet Doubles with Ildikó Csernyik. A year later she celebrated her first European Championship title after winning the Cadet Mixed Doubles event on the side of Dániel Zwickl. This was followed by other medals in the coming years, including three golds in the Junior category (women's doubles, team – 2001, Terni; women's singles – 2002, Moscow). Her first major senior success came in 2007, when she won gold medal in the team competition at the Table Tenn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matilda Ekholm
Matilda Ekholm (; born 15 June 1982 in Linköping) is a Swedish table tennis player. She has won four medals in European Table Tennis Championships The European Table Tennis Championships is an international table tennis competition for the national teams of the member associations of the European Table Tennis Union (ETTU). First held in 1958, the ETTU organised the European Championships ever .... She won a bronze medal in women's doubles in 2013 paired with the Spanish player Galia Dvorak. She won another bronze medal in women's team in 2014 with the Swedish national team. She won her third medal, a silver, paired with Mattias Karlsson in mixed doubles in 2016. 4th medal was 2018 in doubles with Pota Georgina. She has also participated in women's singles at the 2016 Summer Olympics, finishing 17th. Ekholm lives in Sweden and plays for TTC Berlin Eastside in Germany. BEST RESULTS: *Olympics 2016 (17th place in singles) *World Championships 2015 (9th in singles) 2013 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Zion
Lee Zi-on (born 27 May 1996) is a South Korean table tennis player. She is a three-time medalist at the Asian Table Tennis Championships as a member of South Korean women's team. References 1996 births Living people South Korean female table tennis players 21st-century South Korean women {{SouthKorea-tabletennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeon Ji-hee
Jeon Ji-hee (, born 28 October 1992), born Tian Minwei (), is a Chinese-born South Korean table tennis player. Career She competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in the women's singles event, in which she was eliminated in the fourth round by Yu Mengyu, and as part of the South Korean team in the women's team event. 2021 In March, Jeon played in WTT Doha. In the WTT Contender event, she reached the quarter-finals, where she was upset by Miyuu Kihara. In the WTT Star Contender event, she reached the semi-finals where she lost to Mima Ito is a Japanese table tennis player. She won a bronze medal in the Women's Team event at the 2016 Summer Olympics when she was 15 years old. At the 2020 Summer Olympics, she won the gold medal with her partner Jun Mizutani in the Mixed Doubles ev .... It marked her fourth straight loss to Ito, a likely rival in the upcoming Tokyo Olympics. Jeon represented South Korea in the women's singles event at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Jeon reached th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernadette Szőcs
Bernadette Cynthia Szőcs ( hu, Szőcs Bernadette Cynthia; born 5 March 1995) is a professional table tennis player from Romania who is currently at a career World Table Tennis (ITTF) high ranking of No. 11. Career In September 2011, she travelled to Argentina for the World Junior Circuit event where she overtook Kasumi Ishikawa to reach the top spot in the competition series. In July 2012, she was ranked 5th in the ITTF World Junior Circuit. Szőcs won the singles event in the inaugural season of T2, beating Feng Tianwei in the final. Bernadette started to play Table Tennis at 9 years of age for CS Gloria Bistrița-Năsăud. She was declared the 68th honorary citizen of Bistrița in 2018. She was suspended in 2017 and signed with CSA Steaua București in 2019. Szőcs played for Dabangg Delhi TTC in Ultimate table tennis, a table tennis league in India. In August 2019 she was ranked no. 14 in the world in the International Table Tennis Federation rankings and no. 1 in the E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeta Samara
Elizabeta Samara (born 15 April 1989 in Constanța) is a professional Romanian table tennis and a three-time European champion. She is currently the player of CSA Steaua București. Samara previously represented Fenerbahçe SK. She has represented Romania at three different Olympics, in 2008, 2012 and 2016 File:2016 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Bombed-out buildings in Ankara following the 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt; the Impeachment of Dilma Rousseff, impeachment trial of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff; Damaged houses duri .... On 26 July 2022, she agreed on terms with Greek club Panathinaikos. Samara is an ethnic Aromanian, and was born in a family of Aromanians. References External links London 2012 * 1989 births Living people Sportspeople from Constanța Aromanian sportspeople Romanian people of Aromanian descent Romanian female table tennis players Fenerbahçe table tennis players Panathinaikos table tennis players Romania ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
