Cheng I-ching

Cheng I-Ching
Other spellings:	鄭怡靜
Nation:	Chinese Taipei
Date of birth:	February 15, 1992
Place of birth:	Guiren (Tainan)
Playing hand:	right
How to play:	Shakehand
Current world rankings :	8th
Best world ranking :	7 (November 2016)

Cheng I-Ching ( Chinese  鄭怡靜 , born February 15, 1992 in Guiren (Tainan) ) is a Taiwanese table tennis player . At the World Cup 2016 she won the silver medal.

Career

Cheng I-Ching has appeared internationally since 2006, from this year she took part in both youth and adult world championships, played on the World Tour and in the World Junior Circuit. In July 2006, she entered the world rankings at number 195. In her five participations in the Youth World Championships from 2006 to 2010, she reached the quarter-finals seven times in singles, doubles and mixed and with the team positions between 6th and 9th. At the Youth Asian Championships in 2008 and 2010 she came in singles until the semi-finals, in November 2008 she made it into the top 100 of the world rankings. In 2009 she took part in the Asian Cup for the first time, where she finished ninth.

In doubles with Huang Yi-Hua she played successfully on the Pro Tour in 2010, including gold at the Indian Open, silver at the Japan Open and bronze at the Hungary, China and Qatar Open. This qualified them for the Pro Tour Grand Finals, where they could reach the semi-finals. In the same year Cheng I-Ching took part in the Asian Games, where she made it to the quarterfinals in doubles and mixed. Further participation in the Grand Finals followed from 2011 to 2014, with Cheng I-Ching and Huang Yi-Hua winning silver in 2012 and 2013. In 2013, Cheng I-Ching also reached the individual semi-finals of the China Open and thus her first individual medal placement on the World Tour. In 2014 she took part again in the Asian Games and for the first time in the World Cup , where she reached the round of 16.

At the 2015 World Cup , she made it to the eighth-finals in singles and into the quarter-finals in doubles, and at the end of the year she took part in the World Cup for the second time , where she again reached the second round. At the Austrian Open she also came in second, after she was ranked 5th in the world. Kasumi Ishikawa , and moved up in the world rankings for the first time in the top 20. At the Team World Cup in 2016 , she achieved a 9: 1 record and was only beaten in the semi-finals by the Chinese Li Xiaoxia , with which she played a major role in the Taiwanese team winning bronze - the second World Cup medal after Silver 2000 . In August it moved up to tenth place in the world rankings. She also qualified for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , where she reached the quarter-finals in the individual, but lost the first game against the Hong Kong team as a team. At the World Cup in October, she reached the final in the absence of the Chinese players and won silver after a loss to Miu Hirano . The 2017 World Championship ended for her in the round of 64 singles, in which she was eliminated by the Chinese Mu Zi , but she won silver in mixed doubles with Chen Chien-An . At the World Cup she lost to Zhu Yuling in the semifinals , but defeated last year's winner Miu Hirano in the bronze medal match. She was able to achieve this third place in 2018 after she had been eliminated with the team earlier in the year at the Team World Cup in the round of 16.

In 2019 she formed a mixed doubles with Lin Yun-ju , with whom she won gold at the China and Hong Kong Open and reached the semifinals at the Grand Finals .

In the 2011/12 season Cheng I-Ching played with the women's team of MTV Tostedt in the German Bundesliga.

Results from the ITTF database (excerpt)

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
TPE	Asian Cup	2019	Yokohama	JPN	8th place
TPE	Asian Cup	2018	Yokohama	JPN	4th Place
TPE	Asian Cup	2017	Ahmedabad	IND	8th place
TPE	Asian Cup	2015	Jaipur	IND	8th place
TPE	Asian Cup	2011	Changsha	CHN	7th place
TPE	Asian Cup	2009	Hangzhou	CHN	9th place
TPE	Asian Championship	2019	Yogyakarta	IDN	last 32			Semifinals
TPE	Asian Championship	2017	Wuxi	CHN	last 16	last 16	Quarter finals	6th
TPE	Asian Championship	2015	Pattaya	THA	last 16	last 16	last 16	7th
TPE	Asian Games	2018	Jakarta	IDN	Quarter finals		Quarter finals	Quarter finals
TPE	Asian Games	2014	Incheon	COR	last 16	last 16	last 16	Quarter finals
TPE	Asian Games	2010	Guangzhou	CHN	last 16	Quarter finals	Quarter finals	9-12 space
TPE	Youth Asian Championship	2010	Bangkok	THA	Semifinals
TPE	Youth Asian Championship	2008	Singapore	SIN	Semifinals
TPE	ITTF Challenge Series	2019	Muscat	OMN	silver		gold
TPE	ITTF World Tour	2020	Budapest	HUN	silver
TPE	ITTF World Tour	2020	Magdeburg	GER	last 32		Semifinals
TPE	ITTF World Tour	2019	Bremen	GER	last 32		Semifinals
TPE	ITTF World Tour	2019	Geelong	OUT	last 32		Semifinals
TPE	ITTF World Tour	2019	Sapporo	JPN	last 32		Semifinals
TPE	ITTF World Tour	2019	Hong Kong	HKG	Semifinals		gold
TPE	ITTF World Tour	2019	Shenzhen	CHN	Quarter finals		gold
TPE	ITTF World Tour	2019	Doha	QAT	last 32		Semifinals
TPE	ITTF World Tour	2018	Linz	AUT	Quarter finals		silver
TPE	ITTF World Tour	2018	Geelong	OUT	last 32		Semifinals
TPE	ITTF World Tour	2018	Bremen	GER	Semifinals
TPE	ITTF World Tour	2017	Stockholm	SWE	last 16	Semifinals
TPE	ITTF World Tour	2017	Magdeburg	GER	last 32	silver
TPE	ITTF World Tour	2017	Tokyo	JPN	Quarter finals	Semifinals
TPE	ITTF World Tour	2017	Incheon	COR	last 16	Semifinals
TPE	ITTF World Tour	2016	Stockholm	SWE	Semifinals	gold
TPE	ITTF World Tour	2016	Tokyo	JPN	Semifinals	Semifinals
TPE	ITTF World Tour	2016	Berlin	GER	last 32	Semifinals
TPE	ITTF World Tour	2016	Budapest	HUN	Semifinals	Quarter finals
TPE	ITTF World Tour	2015	catfish	AUT	silver	last 16
TPE	ITTF World Tour	2014	Yokohama	JPN	last 32	Semifinals
TPE	ITTF World Tour	2014	Cheng you	CHN	last 16	silver
TPE	ITTF World Tour	2013	Dubai	UAE	last 16	silver
TPE	ITTF World Tour	2013	Suzhou	CHN	Semifinals	Semifinals
TPE	ITTF World Tour	2013	Yokohama	JPN	last 32	silver
TPE	ITTF World Tour	2012	Poznań	POLE	last 32	gold
TPE	ITTF World Tour	2012	Suzhou	CHN	last 16	Semifinals
TPE	ITTF Pro Tour	2011	Shenzen	CHN		silver
TPE	ITTF Pro Tour	2010	Budaörs	HUN	last 16	Semifinals
TPE	ITTF Pro Tour	2010	Suzhou	CHN	last 32	Semifinals
TPE	ITTF Pro Tour	2010	Kobe	JPN	last 16	silver
TPE	ITTF Pro Tour	2010	New Delhi	IND	last 16	gold
TPE	ITTF Pro Tour	2010	Doha	QAT	last 64	Semifinals
TPE	Pro Tour Grand Finals	2019	Zhengzhou	CHN	last 16		Semifinals
TPE	Pro Tour Grand Finals	2018	Incheon	COR	Quarter finals		Quarter finals
TPE	Pro Tour Grand Finals	2017	Astana	KAZ	last 16	Quarter finals
TPE	Pro Tour Grand Finals	2016	Doha	QAT	Quarter finals	Quarter finals
TPE	Pro Tour Grand Finals	2014	Bangkok	THA		Quarter finals
TPE	Pro Tour Grand Finals	2013	Dubai	UAE		silver
TPE	Pro Tour Grand Finals	2012	Hangzhou	CHN		silver
TPE	Pro Tour Grand Finals	2011	London	CLOSELY		Quarter finals
TPE	Pro Tour Grand Finals	2010	Seoul	COR		Semifinals
TPE	World Championship	2019	Budapest	HUN	last 32	last 16	last 16
TPE	World Championship	2018	Halmstad	SWE				9-12 space
TPE	World Championship	2017	Dusseldorf	GER	last 64	Quarter finals	silver
TPE	World Championship	2016	Kuala Lumpur	MAS				Semifinals
TPE	World Championship	2015	Suzhou	CHN	last 16	Quarter finals	last 64
TPE	World Championship	2014	Tokyo	JPN				9
TPE	World Championship	2013	Paris	FRA	last 64	last 16	last 64
TPE	World Championship	2012	Dortmund	GER				14th
TPE	World Championship	2011	Rotterdam	NED	last 64	last 16	last 16
TPE	World Championship	2010	Moscow	RUS				9
TPE	World Championship	2009	Yokohama	JPN	last 128	last 64	last 32
TPE	World Championship	2008	Guangzhou	CHN				15th
TPE	World Championship	2007	Zagreb	CRO	last 128	last 32	last 64
TPE	World Championship	2006	Bremen	GER				19th
TPE	World cup	2019	Cheng you	CHN	Quarter finals
TPE	World cup	2018	Cheng you	CHN	3rd place
TPE	World cup	2017	Markham	CAN	3rd place
TPE	World cup	2016	Philadelphia	United States	silver
TPE	World cup	2015	Sendai	JPN	last 16
TPE	World cup	2014	Linz	AUT	last 16
TPE	World Team Cup	2019	Tokyo	JPN				Semifinals
TPE	World Team Cup	2018	London	CLOSELY				Quarter finals
TPE	Youth World Championship	2010	Bratislava	SVK	last 16	Quarter finals	last 64	8th
TPE	Youth World Championship	2009	Cartagena de Indias	COL	Quarter finals	Quarter finals	Quarter finals	6th
TPE	Youth World Championship	2008	Madrid	ESP	last 32	Quarter finals	Quarter finals	9
TPE	Youth World Championship	2007	Palo Alto	United States	last 16			8th
TPE	Youth World Championship	2006	Cairo	EGY	last 16	Quarter finals	last 16	6th
TPE	World Junior Circuit	2009	Hong Kong	HKG	gold
TPE	World Junior Circuit	2008	Taiyuan	CHN	silver
TPE	World Junior Circuit	2006	San Salvador	ESA	silver
TPE	World Junior Circuit	2006	Calcutta	IND	gold
TPE	World Junior Circuit Finals	2006	Vrsac	SRB	Quarter finals

Web links

• Cheng I-ching in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original ) (accessed October 23, 2019)
• Articles about CHENG I-Ching TPE (accessed October 24, 2019)
• World ranking Record for CHENG I-Ching (TPE) (accessed October 24, 2019)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ results.ittf.link . (accessed July 1, 2018).
2. ↑ ittf.com: Historic Moment, Chinese Taipei Reaches Penultimate Round. (No longer available online.) March 4, 2016, archived from the original on November 4, 2016 ; Retrieved November 3, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Update day three: Seamaster 2019 ITTF World Tour Platinum China Open. ittf.com, June 1, 2019, accessed February 18, 2020 . 
4. ↑ Hong Kong highlights; first title decided. ittf.com, June 8, 2019, accessed February 18, 2020 . 
5. ↑ Zhengzhou Review: Xu Xin escapes, heartbreak for defending champion. ittf.com, December 13, 2019, accessed February 18, 2020 . 
6. ↑ Team line-up of the women's Bundesliga 2011/12 ( Memento of the original from June 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed November 4, 2016) 
7. ↑ Extract from ITTF database (accessed October 24, 2019)

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Cheng is the family name here, I-Ching is the first name.