Zheng Minzhi

Zheng Minzhi, 1965.

Zheng Minzhi ( Chinese  郑敏 之 , Pinyin Zhèng Mǐnzhī , W.-G. Cheng min-chih ; * 1945) is a former Chinese table tennis player . She became world champion three times.

Zheng Minzhi plays with the shakehand racket pose. You first heard of her when she defeated reigning world champion Qiu Zhonghui at the Chinese team championships in 1961 at the age of 15 . In 1962 she won the Chinese championship in doubles together with Lin Hsi-meng.

She has been nominated four times for participation in world championships . Together with Lin Huiqing , she became world champion in doubles in 1965 and 1971 . In 1965 she was also part of the Chinese world championship team. In 1971 she took silver in singles behind her doubles partner Lin Huiqing. In the team competition, she finished second in 1971 and 1973 . In 1973 she was unable to defend her doubles title because her partner Lin Huiqing was unable to take part due to liver disease.

In 1974 she ended her career as a competitive athlete.

Then she coached the Chinese women's national team. In 1979 she became Vice President of the Chinese Table Tennis Association. Today she lives in Shanghai.

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
CHN	World Championship	1973	Sarajevo	YUG	last 16	last 32	last 16	2
CHN	World Championship	1971	Nagoya	JPN	silver	gold	last 32	2
CHN	World Championship	1965	Ljubljana	YUG	Quarter finals	gold	last 16	1
CHN	World Championship	1963	Prague	TCH	last 128	last 64	Quarter finals

Web links

• Biography (accessed August 7, 2011)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ DTS magazine , 1962/1 West issue, p. 2.
2. ↑ Magazine DTS , 1962/13 Edition West p. 1
3. ↑ Tim Boggan in History of US Table Tennis Vol VI (accessed November 29, 2013)
4. ↑ Zheng Minzhi Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed September 4, 2011)