Ge Xinai

Ge Xinai - formerly Ke Hsin-Ai ( Chinese  葛 新 爱 ; * 1953 ) is a former Chinese table tennis player with the greatest success in the 1970s. She won a title five times at world championships .

Ge Xinai played penholder style. She covered one side of her bat with a thin sponge covering with long pimples attached. A "normal" sponge coating of the same color was applied to the other side of the club. Depending on which side she was using, there was a different spin. Often she turned the club so that the trajectory of the ball was difficult for the opponent to calculate.

She took part in the World Championships in 1975 , 1977 and 1979 . Every time she won the gold medal with the Chinese women's team. She reached the semi-finals in 1975 and 1977 in singles and in 1977 in doubles with Zhang Li . She was most successful at the 1979 World Cup, when she became world champion in singles and mixed and reached the final in doubles. In the singles she defeated Song Suk Li from North Korea in the final. The mixed with Liang Geliang prevailed in the final against the Chinese Li Zhenshi / Yan Guili. Only in doubles with Li Zhenshi was she defeated in the final by the Chinese Zhang Deying / Zhang Li.

In the ITTF world rankings she was led in 1979 and 1980 at number one. In June 1981 she was no longer represented in the world rankings.

In 2003, Ge Xinai was inducted into the ITTF Hall of Fame .

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
CHN	Asian Championship ATTU	1976	Pyongyang	PRK	Semifinals	Quarter finals	silver	2
CHN	World Championship	1979	Pyongyang	PRK	gold	silver	gold	1
CHN	World Championship	1977	Birmingham	CLOSELY	Semifinals	Semifinals	last 32	1
CHN	World Championship	1975	Calcutta	IND	Semifinals	last 16	Quarter finals	1

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Tim Boggan in History of US Table Tennis Vol VII (accessed November 29, 2013)
2. ↑ Ashok Kumar: Table Tennis , Discovery Publishing House Pvt Ltd, 1999, ISBN 81-7141-484-2 Google books pages 5 + 11
3. ↑ Historical world rankings ( Memento of the original from March 3, 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 July 13, 2011; PDF; 148 kB)  
4. ↑ ITTF Hall of Fame ( Memento of the original from August 9, 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 on July 13, 2011)  
5. ^ Ge Xinai results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed September 7, 2011)

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