Zhu Yuling (; born 10 January 1995) is a Chinese
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.
Career
She was born in
Mianyang
Mianyang (; formerly known as Mienchow) is the second largest prefecture-level city of Sichuan province in Southwest China. Located in north-central Sichuan covering an area of consisting of Jiangyou, a county-level city, five counties, and thr ...
in 1995 and played table tennis from the age of 5 as it occupied her when she was ill. At nine years old she and her mother moved so that she could train and she made the provincial team when she was twelve. She made the national team when she was fifteen. In addition to her academic studies she trains 9 hours a day leaving little time for her family.
[Zhu Yuling: China's Rising Table Tennis Star]
November 2016, Yang Liang, WomenofChina. Retrieved 7 November 2016
She is the two-time winner of the
World Junior Table Tennis Championships
The ITTF World Youth Championships is an annual table tennis competition for juniors under 19 and under 15. From 2003 to 2019, the World Junior Table Tennis Championships was held for juniors under 18. The ITTF changed the U18 age group into U19 ...
in girls' singles. She was a semi-finalist at the
2013 World Table Tennis Championships
The 2013 World Table Tennis Championships were held at the Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy in Paris, France, from May 13 to May 20, 2013. The Championships were the 52nd edition of the World Table Tennis Championships.
These were the first Champ ...
.
She was a reserve player at the
2016 Summer Olympics in Rio.
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2017 saw Zhu Yuling ascend to the world number one ranking after a thrilling 4–3 win against ]Liu Shiwen
Liu Shiwen (; born 12 April 1991) is a Chinese table tennis player. She is a five-time World Cup champion, one-time World Champion, three-time ITTF World Tour Grand Finals champion and four-time Asian Cup champion. She is known to be one of the ...
at the ITTF Women's World Cup in Markham, Ontario.
Achievements
Major and Asian tournaments
Singles titles
References
External links
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Living people
1995 births
Chinese female table tennis players
Asian Games medalists in table tennis
Table tennis players at the 2014 Asian Games
Table tennis players at the 2018 Asian Games
Asian Games gold medalists for China
Asian Games silver medalists for China
Medalists at the 2014 Asian Games
Medalists at the 2018 Asian Games
People from Mianyang
Table tennis players from Sichuan
People from Zhuhai
Table tennis players from Guangdong
World Table Tennis Championships medalists