Zeng Jian (, born 19 November 1996) is a
Singapore
Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, borde ...
an
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. She won three Under-21 singles titles at the
2016 ITTF World Tour
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The events of the 2016 tour were split into three tiers: Super Series, ...
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Career
In late 2014, Zeng registered with the Singapore Table Tennis Association with hopes to acquire Singaporean nationality and play for the Singapore national team. She acquired Singaporean nationality in November 2019.
2022
Zeng took part in the 2022 Commonwealth Games
The 2022 Commonwealth Games, officially known as the XXII Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Birmingham 2022, was an international multi-sport event for members of the Commonwealth of Nations that took place in Birmingham, England bet ...
held in Birmingham. She won two golds in the women's team and doubles events. In the singles event, she was leading 3 sets and eventually losing to compatriot Feng Tianwei
Feng Tianwei (, ) is a Singaporean table tennis player. Born in Harbin, China, she permanently moved to Singapore at the age of 20 under the former Foreign Sports Talent Scheme in March 2007 and commenced her international career in competit ...
3-4 in all-Singapore final to claim the silver. She partnered Feng Tianwei
Feng Tianwei (, ) is a Singaporean table tennis player. Born in Harbin, China, she permanently moved to Singapore at the age of 20 under the former Foreign Sports Talent Scheme in March 2007 and commenced her international career in competit ...
to defeat the Australian duo Jee Minhyung and Jian Fang Lay
Jian Fang Lay-Hong (; born 6 March 1973), is a right-handed Chinese-born Australian ladies table tennis player. She plays penhold, with a long pimple rubber at one side for use of attacking, blocking as well as chopping. She is currently number ...
3-0 in the finals.
At the 2022 World Team Table Tennis Championships
The 2022 World Team Table Tennis Championships were held in Chengdu, China from 30 September to 9 October 2022. The World Team Championships were originally scheduled in April and pushed back to September due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Format
The ...
at Chengdu, she led the team of Zhou Jingyi, Wong Xinru, Goi Rui Xuan
Goi Rui Xuan (born 26 February 2001) is a Singaporean table tennis player. Her highest career International Table Tennis Federation, ITTF ranking was 188.
Education
Goi studied at Singapore Sports School for four years, and had deferred her d ...
and Zhang Wanling to top Group 4 by defeating Iran, Luxembourg & South Korea. The team qualifies to the knock-out rounds and won Czech Republic 3-1 in the Round of 16 to progress to the Quarter-Final to face 7th seed, Chinese Taipei. Zeng secured two points by defeating world no. 35 Cheng I-ching
Cheng I-ching (; born 15 February 1992) is a Taiwanese table tennis player. She competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in the women's singles event, in which she was eliminated in the quarterfinals by Li Xiaoxia, and as part of the Chinese Taipei ...
and world no. 22 Chen Szu-yu but was not enough for the win as the team fell to Chinese Taipei 2-3. Throughout this tournament, she notched an impressive streak of eight wins in seven days. [ ]
References
1996 births
Living people
Chinese female table tennis players
Chinese emigrants to Singapore
Singaporean sportspeople of Chinese descent
People from Loudi
Kinoshita Abyell Kanagawa players
Table tennis players from Hunan
Chinese expatriate sportspeople in Japan
Expatriate table tennis people in Japan
Naturalised table tennis players
Naturalised citizens of Singapore
Singaporean female table tennis players
Table tennis players at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Singapore
Commonwealth Games medallists in table tennis
Singaporean expatriate sportspeople in Japan
Competitors at the 2021 Southeast Asian Games
Southeast Asian Games silver medalists for Singapore
Southeast Asian Games bronze medalists for Singapore
Southeast Asian Games medalists in table tennis
Medallists at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
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