Tie Ya Na or Tie Yana (; born 13 May 1979) is a table tennis player from Hong Kong, China who won two silver medals at the

2006 Asian Games 6 (six) is the natural number following 5 and preceding 7. It is a composite number and the smallest perfect number. In mathematics Six is the smallest positive integer which is neither a square number nor a prime number; it is the second small ...

in the singles and doubles competitions. Tie played for

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

in the Universiade before emigrating to

Hong Kong Hong Kong ( (US) or (UK); , ), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China ( abbr. Hong Kong SAR or HKSAR), is a city and special administrative region of China on the eastern Pearl River Delt ...

in 2002. She is married to

Tang Peng Tang Peng (; born 4 February 1981 in Beijing, China) is mainland Chinese-born table tennis player who now represents Hong Kong. He recently married Tie Yana, another Chinese-born table tennis player representing Hong Kong. As of December 2016, ...

, another table tennis player representing

Career records

Singles (as of 9 November 2014) *

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: QF (2004, 08). * World Championships: round of 16 (2003, 05, 11). * World Cup appearances: 11. Record: runner-up (2008); 3rd (2002, 04, 11). * Pro Tour winner (8): Korea Open 2002; Brazil Open 2003; Russian Open 2004; Croatian Open 2004; Korea, Chinese Taipei Open 2006; Brazil Open 2007; Hungarian Open 2010. Runner-up (2): USA, Swedish Open 2005. *

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appearances: 9. Record: SF (2005). *

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: runner-up (2006). * Asian Championships: SF (2003). *

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: 1st (2004); 3rd (2003, 05). Women's doubles *Olympics: QF (2004). *World Championships: SF (2005, 09, 11) *Pro Tour winner (14): Russian, Slovenian, Croatian, Chile, USA, German, Swedish Open 2005; Korea, Japan Open 2006; Brazil, Chile Open 2007; Chile, China (Shanghai) Open 2008, Spain 2011. Runner-up (8): Italian Open 2002; Danish Open 2003; Qatar, Singapore Open 2006; Qatar, Austrian Open 2007; Kuwait, Korea Open 2009. *Pro Tour Grand Finals appearances: 9. Record: runner-up (2009, 2010); SF (2004, 07, 08). *Asian Games: runner-up (2006) *Asian Championships: SF (2003, 05, 07) Mixed doubles *World Championships: SF (2007) *Asian Games: winner (2002) *Asian Championships: runner-up (2007); SF (2003) Team *Olympics: 5th (2008, 2012) *World Championships: 2nd (2004, 06); 3rd (2008, 2012) *

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: 3rd (2007, 09, 2013) *Asian Championships: 1st (2005); 2nd (2003)

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