Dang Qiu (; born 29 October 1996) is a German professional

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player.

Career

In June 2022, Qiu defeated

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in seven games at the WTT Contender in

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. The victory helped him reach world No. 10 in the ITTF world ranking. In August 2022, Qiu defeated Darko Jorgic 4–1 in the European Table Tennis Championships Finals. As the top-ranked player in German team, Qiu help the team advance to the final of 2022 World Team Championships later in October.

Personal life

Qiu was born in

Nürtingen Nürtingen () is a town on the river Neckar in the district of Esslingen in the state of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. History The following events occurred, by year: *1046: First mention of ''Niuritingin'' in the document of Speyer ...

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in a family of

Chinese descent Overseas Chinese () refers to people of Chinese birth or ethnicity who reside outside Mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan. As of 2011, there were over 40.3 million overseas Chinese. Terminology () or ''Hoan-kheh'' () in Hokkien, ref ...

. He comes from a family of table tennis enthusiasts. His parents were table tennis players trained in

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, China and moved to Germany in the 1990s. Dang's father, named Jianxin Qiu () started to coach in Japan in 1997. Dang's older brother, named Liang Qiu () is also a table tennis player in Germany.

Singles titles

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Qiu, Dang Living people 1996 births German male table tennis players German people of Chinese descent People from Nürtingen Sportspeople from Stuttgart (region) World Table Tennis Championships medalists