Chen Meng

Chen Meng
Chen at Qatar Open
Other spellings:	陈梦
Nation:	People's Republic of China
Date of birth:	January 15, 1994
Place of birth:	Qingdao
Size:	163 cm
Weight:	55 kg
Playing hand:	Right handed
How to play:	Shakehand , attack
Current world rankings :	1
Best world ranking :	1 (Jan. + Feb., Apr. – Jun. 2018, Jun. 2019–)

Chen Meng ( Chinese  陳夢  /  陈梦 , Pinyin Chén Mèng ; born January 15, 1994 in Qingdao ) is a Chinese table tennis player . She is the reigning vice world champion in singles and two-time world champion with the national team .

Career

Even in her youth, Chen Meng achieved numerous international successes. In 2007 and 2008 she was Asian youth champion both individually and with the team. When she participated in the World Youth Championships in 2008, 2009 and 2011, she won seven gold medals: three times in team competition, once in singles, twice in doubles with Gu Yuting and once in mixed with Song Hongyuan. In 2010 she played her first adult tournament with the Austrian Open, where she beat the world rankings 18. Kasumi Ishikawa , before losing to Zhu Yuling , reached the semi-finals in the U-21 competition. As a result, she moved into the top 100 in the world rankings . From 2012 her international activity increased strongly, at the Qatar Open she won her first individual gold medal and at the Kuwait Open her first double gold medal on the World Tour . At the Grand Finals she and Ai Fukuhara beat number 6 in the world rankings, the semi-finals were lost 3: 4 to reigning world champion Ding Ning . After that, Chen Meng moved into the top 10 in the world rankings for the first time.

She played her first adult world championship in 2013 , where she lost to eventual winner Li Xiaoxia in the round of 16 and won bronze in doubles. At the Asian Championships she won bronze in singles and mixed as well as gold in doubles and with the team. As part of the Chinese team, she became world champion and winner of the Asian Games in 2014 , where she also won gold in doubles. At the 2015 World Cup , she could only take part in mixed with Emmanuel Lebesson , with whom she was among the last 32. But she managed to get into the final at the Grand Finals with victories over vice world champion Liu Shiwen , which she lost again to reigning world champion Ding Ning. In addition, she became vice Asian champion in singles, won bronze in doubles as well as gold in mixed and with the team with which she was again world champion in 2016 .

2017 got off to a successful start for Chen, winning gold in singles and doubles at the Qatar Open. In the singles final of the Asian Championships, where she won gold in doubles and with the team, she was the third Chinese in a row to be defeated by the surprise winner Miu Hirano . In doubles with Zhu Yuling, against whom she was eliminated in singles in the quarterfinals, she became vice world champion a little later , in August she moved up to second place in the world rankings for the first time. After winning gold in singles and doubles at the Grand Finals , she achieved first place in the new world rankings for the first time in January 2018 , and with the team she became world champion again . At the end of the year she managed to defend her title at the individual Grand Finals . In 2019, Chen became vice world champion in singles, returned to the top of the world rankings after her victory at the China Open and was able to win the Grand Finals for the third time in a row , something that only Liu Shiwen had previously achieved.

In 2020 she won the first World Tour tournament, the German Open, in singles and doubles.

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team	U-21
CHN	Asian Cup	2019	Yokohama	JPN	silver
CHN	Asian Cup	2018	Yokohama	JPN	silver
CHN	Asian Championship	2019	Yogyakarta	IDN	Semifinals	silver		gold
CHN	Asian Championship	2017	Wuxi	CHN	silver	gold		gold
CHN	Asian Championship	2015	Pattaya	THA	silver	Semifinals	gold	gold
CHN	Asian Championship	2013	Busan	COR	Semifinals	gold	Semifinals	gold
CHN	Youth Asian Championship	2012		CHN	gold			gold
CHN	Youth Asian Championship	2008	Singapore	SIN	gold			gold
CHN	Youth Asian Championship	2007	Hoengseong	COR	gold			gold
CHN	Asian Games	2018	Jakarta	IDN	silver			gold
CHN	Asian Games	2014	Incheon	COR		gold	Quarter finals	gold
CHN	ITTF World Tour	2020	Doha	QAT	gold	Quarter finals
CHN	ITTF World Tour	2020	Magdeburg	GER	gold	gold
CHN	ITTF World Tour	2019	Bremen	GER	last 16	Semifinals
CHN	ITTF World Tour	2019	Stockholm	SWE	gold	gold
CHN	ITTF World Tour	2019	Geelong	OUT	Quarter finals	gold
CHN	ITTF World Tour	2019	Busan	COR	gold	gold
CHN	ITTF World Tour	2019	Sapporo	JPN	Semifinals	gold
CHN	ITTF World Tour	2019	Shenzhen	CHN	gold		Quarter finals
CHN	ITTF World Tour	2019	Budapest	HUN	gold	silver
CHN	ITTF World Tour	2018	Linz	AUT	gold
CHN	ITTF World Tour	2018	Stockholm	SWE	Semifinals
CHN	ITTF World Tour	2018	Daejeon	COR	silver	gold
CHN	ITTF World Tour	2018	Doha	QAT	Semifinals
CHN	ITTF World Tour	2017	Stockholm	SWE	Quarter finals	silver
CHN	ITTF World Tour	2017	Magdeburg	GER	gold	Quarter finals
CHN	ITTF World Tour	2017	Doha	QAT	gold	gold
CHN	ITTF World Tour	2017	Tokyo	JPN	silver
CHN	ITTF World Tour	2017	Cheng you	CHN	Semifinals	silver
CHN	ITTF World Tour	2017	Gold coast	OUT	gold	gold
CHN	ITTF World Tour	2016	Cheng you	CHN	Semifinals	gold
CHN	ITTF World Tour	2015	Stockholm	SWE	last 16	gold
CHN	ITTF World Tour	2015	Kuwait City	KUW	Quarter finals	Semifinals
CHN	ITTF World Tour	2015	Kobe	JPN	gold	Quarter finals
CHN	ITTF World Tour	2015	Cheng you	CHN	last 16	gold
CHN	ITTF World Tour	2015	Kuwait City	KUW	Quarter finals	Semifinals
CHN	ITTF World Tour	2014	Cheng you	CHN	Quarter finals	Quarter finals
CHN	ITTF World Tour	2014	Kuwait City	KUW	silver	Semifinals
CHN	ITTF World Tour	2013	Stockholm	SWE	gold	Quarter finals
CHN	ITTF World Tour	2013	Suzhou	CHN	gold	gold
CHN	ITTF World Tour	2013	Kuwait City	KUW	last 16	Semifinals
CHN	ITTF World Tour	2013	catfish	AUT	Quarter finals	silver
CHN	ITTF World Tour	2012	Ekaterinburg	RUS	Semifinals	Semifinals
CHN	ITTF World Tour	2012	Suzhou	CHN	gold	gold
CHN	ITTF World Tour	2012	Shanghai	CHN	last 16	last 16
CHN	ITTF World Tour	2012	Kuwait City	KUW	last 16	gold
CHN	ITTF World Tour	2012	Doha	QAT	gold	Semifinals
CHN	ITTF Pro Tour	2010	catfish	AUT	last 32	Agony			Semifinals
CHN	World Tour Grand Finals	2019	Zhengzhou	CHN	gold
CHN	World Tour Grand Finals	2018	Incheon	COR	gold
CHN	World Tour Grand Finals	2017	Astana	KAZ	gold	gold
CHN	World Tour Grand Finals	2015	Lisbon	POR	silver
CHN	World Tour Grand Finals	2012	Hangzhou	CHN	Semifinals
CHN	World Championship	2019	Budapest	HUN	silver	Semifinals
CHN	World Championship	2018	Halmstad	SWE				gold
CHN	World Championship	2017	Dusseldorf	GER	Quarter finals	silver
CHN	World Championship	2016	Kuala Lumpur	MAS				gold
CHN	World Championship	2015	Suzhou	CHN			last 32
CHN	World Championship	2014	Tokyo	JPN				gold
CHN	World Championship	2013	Paris	FRA	last 16	Semifinals
CHN	Youth World Championship	2011	Manama	BRN	gold	gold	gold	gold
CHN	Youth World Championship	2009	Cartagena de Indias	COL	Semifinals	gold	Semifinals	gold
CHN	Youth World Championship	2008	Madrid	ESP	last 16			gold
CHN	World Team Cup	2019	Tokyo	JPN				gold

Web links

• Chen Meng Article about Chen Meng on the website of the World Table Tennis Federation ittf.com (accessed June 10, 2016)
• World Ranking Positions of Chen Meng (accessed November 3, 2017)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ results.ittf.link . (accessed July 1, 2018).
2. ↑ 2011 World Junior Table Tennis Championships ( Memento of the original from August 20, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on October 18, 2016)  
3. ↑ Take a bow Miu Hirano, first Japanese to win Asian Championships after 20 years. ittf.com, April 16, 2017, accessed March 6, 2020 . 
4. ↑ Chen Meng ascends to the top of order. ittf.com, January 1, 2018, accessed March 6, 2020 . 
5. ↑ China: men in the final, women world champions. tischtennis.de, May 5, 2018, accessed on March 6, 2020 . 
6. ↑ 15 years, 172 days: Youngest Grand Finals winner of all time! mytischtennis.de, December 16, 2018, accessed on March 6, 2020 . 
7. ↑ Liu Shiwen first time world champion! Double gold for Ma / Wang. mytischtennis.de, April 27, 2019, accessed on March 6, 2020 . 
8. ^ Success in Shenzhen, Chen Meng at top of order. ittf.com, June 3, 2019, accessed March 6, 2020 . 
9. ↑ Fan Zhendong and Chen Meng crowned champions at Agricultural Bank of China 2019 ITTF World Tour Grand Finals. ittf.com, December 15, 2019, accessed March 6, 2020 . 
10. ↑ Chen Meng results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed June 10, 2016)

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Chen is the family name here, Meng is the first name.