Lin Yun-Ju ( born 17 August 2001) is a Taiwanese

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Personal life

Lin was born in Yuanshan, Yilan County,

Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a Country, country in East Asia, at the junction of the East China Sea, East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the China, People's Republic of China (PRC) to the n ...

. He graduated from

Taipei Municipal Nei-Hu Vocational High School The Taipei Municipal Nei-Hu Vocational High School (), formerly ''Taipei Municipal Nei-Hu Industrial High School'', abbreviated as NIHS (內湖高工) is a public 3-year high school in Neihu District, Taipei, Taiwan. Departments *Department of ...

and is currently studying at

Fu Jen Catholic University Fu Jen Catholic University (FJU, FJCU or Fu Jen; or ) is a private Catholic university in Xinzhuang, New Taipei City, Taiwan. The university was founded in 1925 in Beijing at the request of Pope Pius XI and re-established in Taiwan in 1961 at ...

Career

2019

Lin started competing in the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) senior circuit in 2016. He won two major tournaments in a row in 2019, first the T2 Diamond Malaysia in July, followed in August by his first ITTF World Tour title, the Czech Open at the age of only 18. In these tournaments, he had beaten some of the top players, including

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, Fan Zhendong, Dimitrij Ovtcharov and

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2021

Lin trained in China along with members of the Chinese national team and other selected foreigners from late 2020 until early 2021. His first international event was WTT Contender at World Table Tennis' inaugural event WTT Doha, where he reached the finals after defeating Quadri Aruna in the quarter-finals and Simon Gauzy in the semi-finals before being upset by Dimitrij Ovtcharov in the finals. In the WTT Star Contender event, Lin suffered a quarter-final upset against Ruwen Filus. However, Lin walked out of Doha with control of the fourth seed for the men's singles event at the

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. In April, ITTF amended the Olympic seeding system so that Lin fell back to the fifth seed below Hugo Calderano. Lin placed fourth at the

after losing to Dimitrij Ovtcharov in the bronze-medal match. Lin defeated Ovtcharov in the team event later, but Taiwan ultimately fell to Germany 3–2 in the quarter-finals.

Achievements

Major tournaments

Singles titles

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lin, Yun-ju 2001 births Living people Asian Games medalists in table tennis Asian Games bronze medalists for Chinese Taipei Fu Jen Catholic University alumni Medalists at the 2018 Asian Games Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for Taiwan Table tennis players at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics Table tennis players at the 2018 Asian Games Table tennis players at the 2020 Summer Olympics Taiwanese male table tennis players Olympic medalists in table tennis World Table Tennis Championships medalists Olympic table tennis players of Taiwan 21st-century Taiwanese people