Han Ying (table tennis player)

Han Ying
Han Ying (2013)
Nation:	Germany
Date of birth:	April 29, 1983
Place of birth:	Liaoning
Playing hand:	Right handed
How to play:	Defender
Current world rankings :	27
Best world ranking :	6 (March 2017)
Current continental ranking position:	4th
Best continental ranking:	1
Current national ranking:	1
Best national ranking:	1
Clubs as active: 2002-2005 TV Busenbach 2005–2012 MTV Tostedt since 2012 KTS Tarnobrzeg
Last update of the infobox: February 22nd, 2020

Han Ying ( Chinese  韓 瑩  /  韩 莹 , Pinyin Hán Yíng , born April 29, 1983 in Liaoning , People's Republic of China ) is a German table tennis player of Chinese descent. She was German champion in singles in 2018 and in doubles in 2011 and European champion with the team in 2013 , 2014 and 2015 . At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro , she won silver in the team competition.

Career

German Open 2017, Han Ying

The defender Han Ying played for the Chinese club Huang Hai Road. In 2002 she moved to Germany and joined the Bundesliga team TV Busenbach . With its women's team, she reached the final in the 2004 ETTU Cup and became German team champion a year later. In 2005 she moved to MTV Tostedt , where she was active until 2012. When the women's team was withdrawn from the Bundesliga in 2012, she joined the Polish club KTS Zamek Tarnobrzeg , with whom she was Polish champion in 2016 and the Champions League in 2018/19 .

At the end of 2010 she received German citizenship. She then competed internationally for Germany for the first time in January 2011 when she took part in the ITTF Pro Tour tournament in England.

Since then she has also been entitled to take part in the national German championships . She qualified for the DM 2011 in Bamberg. Here she and Irene Ivancan won the German doubles championship after winning the final against Zhenqi Barthel / Kristin Silbereisen . In the singles she lost in the semifinals against Zhenqi Barthel after a 90-minute fight in the seventh set. In 2012 she took part in the Qatar Open, where she beat the world number five, Feng Tianwei , and reached the quarter-finals. In March she reached 40th place in the world rankings and thus for the first time a place in the top 100.

At the 2013 European Championships in Schwechat , Han Ying won the title with the German team. The defender won all of her five individual games. In the individual she was defeated in the semifinals by her teammate Shan Xiaona and won the bronze medal. In 2014 she won her first individual title on the World Tour at the Korea Open and did not give up a set during the tournament, which made her move into the top 10 in the world rankings for the first time and thus become the best-placed European. In Lisbon she became European champion with the German team again without defeat . She also qualified for the World Tour Grand Finals , in which she was eliminated in the first round by Yu Mengyu . At the 2015 European Games , she won team gold with Shan Xiaona and Petrissa Solja , as well as at the 2015 European Championships in Yekaterinburg . At the end of the year she defeated European champion Elizabeta Samara in the individual competition of the Grand Finals , before losing to world champion and eventual winner Ding Ning in the quarter-finals .

At the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , Han Ying was eliminated from the individual competition in the quarter-finals again against the later gold medalist Ding Ning. She won silver in the team competition after the German selection beat Japan and lost to China in the final. In addition, Han qualified again for the Grand Finals , in which they reached the final after victories over Mima Ito and Miu Hirano and after the illness-related abandonment of Ding Ning, which was lost to Zhu Yuling . In February 2017 she climbed to world number 6, which was a new personal record. After three titles in a row, Germany was the favorite at the 2017 European Championship , but only won silver after a final defeat against Romania. In singles, Han reached the semi-finals of the Japan and Czech Open in 2017 and qualified for the fourth time in a row for the Grand Finals , where she failed in the first round to Kasumi Ishikawa .

After having consistently ranked among the top 15 in the world rankings since April 2014, it then fell back to 32nd place with the introduction of the new world ranking calculation in January 2018. In the same year she was European mixed champion together with Ruwen Filus , in singles she was eliminated in the quarterfinals. In 2019 she started as the first German in the Japanese T.League and won silver in the individual and gold with the team at the second European Games . At the European Team Championship a few months later, however, Germany surprisingly lost in the quarter-finals to Portugal.

When she changed associations in 2010, the rule was that she was not allowed to participate in World Championships and World Cups . In 2018, the ITTF Congress defused this provision. Accordingly, there is now only a blocking period of nine years. Han Ying is therefore eligible to play at the 2020 World Cup and was also able to take part in the Europe Top 16 for the first time in 2020 , where she reached the quarter-finals.

Private

Han Ying lives in Düsseldorf in the Knittkuhl district and has been married to the German table tennis player Yang Lei , who also comes from China and who plays in the 3rd Bundesliga North at SV Brackwede, since 2006 . In 2012 she had her first child.

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
GER	European Championship	2019	Nantes	FRA				Quarter finals
GER	European Championship	2018	Alicante	ESP	Quarter finals		gold
GER	European Championship	2017	Luxembourg	LUX				2
GER	European Championship	2016	Budapest	HUN	Quarter finals
GER	European Championship	2015	Ekaterinburg	RUS	Quarter finals	Semifinals		1
GER	European Championship	2014	Lisbon	POR				1
GER	European Championship	2013	Schwechat	AUT	Semifinals			1
GER	European Games	2019	Minsk	BLR	silver			1
GER	European Games	2015	Baku	AZE	Quarter finals			1
GER	Europe Top 16	2020	Montreux	SUI	Quarter finals
GER	Olympic games	2016	Rio de Janeiro	BRA	Quarter finals			2
GER	Pro tour	2020	Budapest	HUN	Semifinals
GER	Pro tour	2017	Olomouc	CZE	Semifinals
GER	Pro tour	2017	Tokyo	JPN	Semifinals	Quarter finals
GER	Pro tour	2016	Stockholm	SWE	Semifinals
GER	Pro tour	2016	Doha	QAT	Quarter finals
GER	Pro tour	2016	Kuwait City	KUW	Quarter finals
GER	Pro tour	2016	Berlin	GER	Last 16	silver
GER	Pro tour	2015	Lisbon	POR	Quarter finals
GER	Pro tour	2015	Stockholm	SWE	Quarter finals
GER	Pro tour	2015	Warsaw	POLE	Last 32
GER	Pro tour	2015	catfish	AUT	gold
GER	Pro tour	2015	Olomouc	CZE	Semifinals
GER	Pro tour	2015	Cheng you	CHN	Quarter finals
GER	Pro tour	2015	Bremen	GER	Last 32	Last 16
GER	Pro tour	2015	Doha	QAT	silver
GER	Pro tour	2015	Kuwait City	KUW	Last 16	silver
GER	Pro tour	2014	Stockholm	SWE	Semifinals	Quarter finals
GER	Pro tour	2014	Olomouc	CZE	Last 32	Quarter finals
GER	Pro tour	2014	Incheon	COR	gold	Last 16
GER	Pro tour	2014	Cheng you	CHN	Last 16	Semifinals
GER	Pro tour	2014	Magdeburg	GER	Semifinals	Last 16
GER	Pro tour	2014	Doha	QAT	Last 32	Last 16
GER	Pro tour	2014	Kuwait City	KUW	Last 16	Semifinals
GER	Pro tour	2013	Berlin	GER	Semifinals	Last 16
GER	Pro tour	2013	Olomouc	CZE	Quarter finals	Quarter finals
GER	Pro tour	2013	Doha	QAT	Last 16	Quarter finals
GER	Pro tour	2012	Doha	QAT	Quarter finals
GER	Pro tour	2011	Dortmund	GER	Last 64
GER	Pro tour	2011	Sheffield	CLOSELY	Last 64	Last 16
GER	World Tour Grand Finals	2017	Astana	KAZ	Last 16
GER	World Tour Grand Finals	2016	Doha	QAT	silver
GER	World Tour Grand Finals	2015	Lisbon	POR	Quarter finals
GER	World Tour Grand Finals	2014	Bangkok	THA	Last 16

Sources: see below

Course of the position in the world rankings

World ranking positions until March 2016

literature

• Susanne Heuing: It's all a question of will , portrait, magazine tischtennis , 2014/9, pp. 8–11
• Susanne Heuing: German-Chinese clout: How table tennis player Han Ying found a new home. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung , October 4, 2015, p. 36

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Tischtennis Magazin, official organ of the Lower Saxony table tennis association 2008/9 p. 3
2. ↑ DTS magazine , 2002/6 p. 18 + 2002/8 p. 32
3. ↑ Change of club from Busenbach to Tostedt ( memento from September 18, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ), accessed on April 9, 2011
4. ↑ ^{a b} Han and Duda become members of the B-squad ( memento from July 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), message from July 24, 2013, on tischtennis.de, accessed on May 20, 2019
5. ↑ DTS magazine , 2016/6 p. 7
6. ↑ DTS magazine , 2019/6 p. 6
7. ↑ English Open: Irene Ivancan defeats Zhu Fang and plays against Samara for a place in the round of 16 ( Memento from January 31, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), message from January 28, 2011, on tischtennis.de, accessed on May 20, 2019
8. ↑ English Open: Pro-Tour debut for Tostedt's top player Han Ying ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), message from January 26, 2011, on tischtennis.de, accessed on May 20, 2019
9. ↑ Qatar: Quarter-finals for Franziska and Han after a huge tournament. mytischtennis.de, February 9, 2012, accessed on September 13, 2019 . 
10. ↑ WRL: Boll only sixth, Han 105 places up. mytischtennis.de, March 1, 2012, accessed on September 13, 2019 . 
11. ↑ Strong as a bear: Han Ying wins Korea Open without losing a set. mytischtennis.de, June 15, 2014, accessed on September 13, 2019 . 
12. ↑ World ranking: Han Ying in top 10 and at the top of Europe. mytischtennis.de, July 9, 2014, accessed on September 13, 2019 . 
13. ↑ Grand Finals: Ovtcharov ends series of defeats! mytischtennis.de, December 12, 2014, accessed on September 13, 2019 . 
14. ↑ Grand Finals: Ovtcharov and Han are in the quarterfinals. mytischtennis.de, December 11, 2015, accessed on September 13, 2019 . 
15. ↑ Grand Finals: Han Ying challenges Ding, Ma defeats 'Dima'. mytischtennis.de, December 13, 2015, accessed on September 13, 2019 . 
16. ↑ Table tennis women win silver. ZEIT ONLINE , August 17, 2016, accessed on September 13, 2019 . 
17. ↑ Grand Finals: Han Ying lost in the final. mytischtennis.de, December 11, 2016, accessed on September 13, 2019 . 
18. ↑ Silver tears. SZ-Online , September 17, 2017, accessed on September 13, 2019 . 
19. ↑ Grand Finals: Timo Boll moves into the semi-finals. mytischtennis.de, December 15, 2017, accessed on September 13, 2019 . 
20. ↑ DTS magazine , 2019/2 p. 7
21. ↑ European Games: German table tennis players celebrate in Minsk. sportschau.de, June 29, 2019, accessed on September 13, 2019 . 
22. ↑ EM: DTTB women eliminated in the quarterfinals! mytischtennis.de, September 6, 2019, accessed on September 13, 2019 . 
23. ↑ DTS magazine , 2018/5 p. 21
24. ↑ Europe Top 16: Ovtcharov leaves with flu - Boll and Solja in the semi-finals. mytischtennis.de, February 8, 2020, accessed on February 9, 2020 . 
25. ↑ Susanne Heuing: Brackweder Glücksfall - The Chinese Lei Yang strengthens the regional league and takes care of the youth , article from August 29, 2014 in the Neue Westfälische, accessed on March 4, 2018
26. ↑ Han Ying (table tennis player) Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed June 23, 2014)
27. ↑ International Table Tennis Federation - ITTF: Player Statistics ( Memento from April 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on May 20, 2019

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