Ding Yaping

Ding Yaping
Nation:	Germany
Date of birth:	April 13, 1967
Place of birth:	Ningbo
How to play:	Shakehand
Best world ranking :	11 (late 1991)
Best national ranking:	1 (December 2011)

Ding Yaping (born April 13, 1967 in Ningbo , Zhejiang Province , People's Republic of China ) is a German table tennis player who won two bronze medals at world championships for China (1989, 1991).

successes

Ding was a member of the Chinese national team and won a bronze medal in doubles at the 1989 and 1991 World Championships . The trained industrial clerk came from China to TSG Dülmen in Germany in 1992 as tenth in the world rankings , where she played until 1996 and became German team champion in 1995. Via Assistance Coesfeld (1996), she switched to TSV Betzingen in 2000 , with whom she won the ETTU Cup in 2001 . In the early years of the 2000s she was "the most successful player in the German upper house". When Betzingen withdrew the team from the Bundesliga, Ding moved to Langweid in 2005 and was German team champion again in her first season. In 2008/09 she played for Hannover 96 , then for Hassia Bingen (since 2011 TTG Bingen / Münster-Sarmsheim ). In 2018 she left Germany for France, a year later she returned to the Bundesliga with SV DJK Kolbermoor .

In July 2006, Ding Yaping was number one in the German rankings. Ding's role model is the world and Olympic champion Deng Yaping , who has almost the same name .

Style of play

Ding Yaping is a defender, but can also shoot with forehand and backhand. She plays with the shakehand racket position, on the back of the racket she plays with knobs on the outside.

Private

Ding Yaping is married to Zhu Xiaoyong, a former table tennis professional. She has a daughter (* 1998). Ding successfully completed an apprenticeship as an industrial clerk by 2005 .

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
CHN	Asian Cup	1989	Beijing	CHN	5
CHN	World Championship	1991	Chiba City	JPN	last 16	Semifinals	no participants
CHN	World Championship	1989	Dortmund	FRG	last 16	Semifinals	last 128

Web links

• Portrait at TTC Langweid ( Memento from October 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on February 20, 2016)
• Page about thing at TTG Bingen

swell

• Rahul Nelson: Ding Yaping: Be polite, slow and good , DTS magazine , 1992/11 page 18

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ITTF world rankings from 1947 to 2001 (Excel; 171 kB) ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 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 on September 1, 2012) 
2. ↑ TT Inside ( Memento of September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) of January 19, 2005 (accessed on September 1, 2012)
3. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2008/7 page 27
4. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2018/9 page 19
5. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2019/9 page 24
6. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2005/3 page 7
7. ↑ Ding Yaping results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed September 17, 2011)

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