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Ruth Aarons: winner of World Championships in 1936, 1937. Fliura Abbate-Bulatova: winner of European Championships in 1988. Ahn Jae-Hyung. Maria Alexandru-Golopenta: winner of European Championships in 1966. Hans Alsér: winner of European Championships in 1962, 1970.
Table tennis (also known as ping-pong or whiff-whaff) is a racket sport derived from tennis but distinguished by its playing surface being atop a stationary table, rather than the court on which players stand. Either individually or in teams of two, players take alternating turns returning a light, hollow ball over the table's net onto the ...
Hanyu Pinyin. Xíng Yánhuá. Wade–Giles. Hsing 2 Yen 2 -hua 2. Ariel Yenhua Hsing (born November 29, 1995) [2] is an American table tennis player who competed in the 2012 Summer Olympics. Hsing became the youngest U.S. table tennis national champion in history in 2010 at age 15. She repeated as champion in 2011 and 2013.
Ma Long (Chinese: 马龙; pinyin: Mǎ Lóng; born 20 October 1988) is a Chinese professional table tennis player, six-time Olympic champion, and three-time World Champion. He is the reigning World Cup singles champion. Widely regarded as the greatest table tennis player of all time, [10][11][12] he is the first and only male player to complete ...
Ai Fukuhara (福原 愛, Fukuhara Ai, born 1 November 1988) is a retired Japanese table tennis player and Olympic medalist, winning silver at the 2012 Summer Olympics and bronze at the 2016 Summer Olympics with the Japanese women's team. She is sponsored by All Nippon Airways. [3][4][5]
Xu Xin (simplified Chinese: 许昕; traditional Chinese: 許昕; pinyin: Xǔ Xīn; born 8 January 1990) is a Chinese professional table tennis player who is currently ranked world No. 1 as of May 2019 for men's singles by the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF). He first reached his career-high singles ranking of world No. 1 in January ...
Matthew Philip Syed (born 2 November 1970) is a British journalist, author, broadcaster and former table tennis player. He competed as an English table tennis international, and was the English number one for many years. He is a three-time men's singles champion at the Commonwealth Table Tennis Championships [1] (in 1997, 2000 and 2001), and ...
Lin trained in China along with members of the Chinese national team and other selected foreigners from late 2020 until early 2021. [14] 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 [15] before being upset by Dimitrij Ovtcharov in ...