Guo Yue (; born July 17, 1988 in

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player and the 2007 women's world champion. Controversy ensued in China when Guo Yue was kicked out of the National Table Tennis Team in 2015 for "poor behaviour" and lack of interest. As of 2015, she had left the table tennis field and was studying finance at Tsinghua University.

Career

She was a

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shakehand attack player and came from Liaoning, China, the province where Wang Nan, Chang Chenchen and Li Jia (all left-handed players) came from. She was the potential leading player in Chinese woman team. Her original partner in women's doubles was Niu Jianfeng, who came from

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. Her new partner was

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, who was also her roommate. Guo experienced series of losses in international games which led to her disappearance from the public eye for almost half a year. It is officially claimed "To help her mentally adjust". At the

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, Guo returned to competition and took first place in women's singles, women's doubles and women's team. In 2007 from January to July, Guo attended six international opens and won four gold medals. At the selection match for 2007 World Table Tennis Championships in

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, Guo qualified early on. Guo Yue won the 2007 World Championships in

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, by defeating her compatriot Li Xiaoxia in the women's singles final. She also won the mixed doubles title with Wang Liqin.

Controversy

Rumours were rife in 2010 when Guo Yue was cited for "poor behaviour" and lack of interest in playing table tennis. An incident, cited on Chinese forum Tianya, stated that she was once tasked to attend a meeting and failed to do so, hence causing friction with China's top player Wang Nan. After the London 2012 Olympics, she was switched to a provincial team. In 2015, she was officially kicked out from the National Team and has gone on to study finance at Tsinghua University.

Achievements

*1999 – Japan East Asian Junior Championship Women's Singles Champion *2000 – Asian Cup Women's Singles Runner-up *2002 – International Table Tennis Federation, ITTF Pro Tour Grand Finals Women's Singles Runner-up *2003 – Asian Championship Women's Team Champion, Women's Singles Second Runner-up, Runner-up of Women's Doubles at the 47 World Table Tennis Championship *2004 – Women's Doubles Bronze at the Athens Olympic, Women's Team Champion of World Table Tennis Championship, ITTF Pro Tour Events Final Women's Singles Champion and Women's Doubles Runner-up *2005 – Mixed Doubles (with Wang Liqin) at the 48th World Table Tennis Championship, bronze medal in Women's Singles *2006 – World Table Tennis Championship Women's Team Champion; Champion of Team, Women's Singles, Women's Doubles Champion (with Li Xiaoxia) at Asian Games *2007 – World Table Tennis Championship Women's singles Champion, Mixed Doubles Champion (with Wang Liqin) *2008 – World Table Tennis Championship Women's Team Champion; Asian Cup Champion; Women's Singles Bronze at the Beijing Olympic

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