This article Tokyo Olympics: a 58-year-old table tennis player is finding online fame as the ‘Shanghai auntie’ first appeared on South China Morning Postįor the latest news from the South China Morning Post download our mobile app. Tokyo Olympics: Will China beat Japan (and the US) at their own Games?Ĭhinese Olympic athletes buoyed by leading gold medal tally and zero coronavirus cases Tokyo Olympics: Hong Kong on brink of another medal as women carve own slice of history in team table tennis Tokyo Olympics: China swats Singapore aside for spot in women’s team table tennis semi-final This is the Russian Liga Pro, an obscure, semiprofessional table tennis competition that has over the past 10 months become the unlikeliest of sports betting phenomena in the United States. Tokyo Olympics: China takes gold and silver in 3m springboard as diving dominance continues In Shanghai, I can visit my relatives, I can play ping pong, and I can travel around China. “I look forward to visiting Shanghai when the coronavirus pandemic situation gets better. Ni still adopts the Shanghai dialect when talking with her mother and her children at home, she said. “They also told me my spirit is a good example for kids.” If I agree to stay, the Luxembourg Olympic committee will allocate funds to the ping pong association, and kids will be supported to play this sport. “The national team of Luxembourg needs me. Ni said a championship or the public spotlight is not important to her, and she is more focused on her health and family. The ITTF has described her as a “12-year-old, setting unprecedented standards for the continent of Africa.Ni won a bronze medal at the 2019 European Games in Minsk, Belarus. Most recently she’s participated in the 2020 – ITTF Junior Circuit, Swedish Junior & Cadet Open, winning two of the four matches played, and last year in the World Cadet Challenge – ITTF World Cadet Challenge, winning 11 out of a total of 15 matches against players from Asia, Latin America and Europe, among others, according to the ITTF website.
She is the womens singles champion of the ITTF Womens World Cup. Goda was just 4 years old when she started playing for the Egyptian al-Ahly club, and now almost seven years later, she has earned herself global recognition. Chen Meng is a Chinese table tennis player and the current World No.
I like playing with the experts but also the easier ones,” she said as she swiftly hit the ball back and forth during her practice in Cairo. “I enjoy playing with older players because I love it when the match is hard. She played a winning match last year in the Egyptian National Championships against 27-year-old Zamalek club player Farah Abdelaziz who is also ranked among the top 5 senior table tennis players in Africa. Twelve-year-old Hana Goda may not be the youngest player to compete professionally, but her performance in various local, regional and global competitions has seen her rise through the ranks and she is now well on her way to achieving her Olympic dreams. Ping-pong prodigy is an Olympian at 11 years oldĪn Egyptian table tennis player has been making waves after ranking number 1 in the International Table Tennis Federation’s Cadet Under 15 girls’, the first African player to have done so, according to the ITTF. Meet Stephen Curry's unlikeliest coach - a sexy female ping-pong starįeds want $182K from Colombo boss who won money in prison ping-pong injury settlement More detailed information about their careers is available in the individual players articles, and in the ITTF database.
The main source of the information included in this page is the official International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) database. This Paralympian somehow manages to play ping pong without arms This list of table tennis players is alphabetically ordered by surname.