Cai Xiaoli (born 21 November 1979), also known as Cai Xiao Li, is a retired Chinese-born Singaporean international

table tennis Table tennis, also known as ping-pong and whiff-whaff, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball, also known as the ping-pong ball, back and forth across a table using small solid rackets. It takes place on a hard table div ...

player. Cai was born in

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, China in 1979. He moved to Singapore under the

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. In 2004 he won the Commonwealth Championships mixed doubles with partner

Zhang Xueling Zhang Xueling (; born 7 May 1983 in Beijing, China) is a Chinese-born Singaporean table tennis player. Zhang started playing table tennis at the age of 6 and made her first International appearance in 1999. She won four gold medals at the 200 ...

. He was on Singapore A team at the 2006 Australian Open, where he won the Mixed Doubles with partner

Sun Beibei Sun Beibei (; born 28 January 1984 in Shandong, China) is a Chinese-born Singaporean former table tennis player. She occupies the 20th place in the ITTF women's world ranking, as of October 2011. Career records Singles (as of 31 July 2010) *W ...

. In January 2008 his world ranking was 155. Cai competed at the following international events: * World Championships: 2005 men's singles, 2007 men's singles, 2007 mixed doubles, 2009 men's singles, 2009 men's doubles, 2009 mixed doubles * Olympic Games: 2008 men's team * Commonwealth Games:

2002 File:2002 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 2002 Winter Olympics are held in Salt Lake City; Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother and her daughter Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon die; East Timor gains East Timor independence, indepe ...

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, 2010 men's singles, 2010 mixed doubles * Asian Games: 2002 men's singles, 2002 men's doubles, 2002 mixed doubles, 2006 men's doubles, 2006 men's team, 2010 men's team * Southeast Asian Games: 1999,

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, and

2009 File:2009 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: The vertical stabilizer of Air France Flight 447 is pulled out from the Atlantic Ocean; Barack Obama becomes the first African American to become President of the United States; 2009 Iran ...

Cai retired in 2011 and became the assistant coach of the national women's table tennis team.

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