Xi Enting

Xi Enting ( Chinese  郗 恩 庭 , Pinyin Xī Ēntíng , also Hsi En-Ting or Tsi En-Ting; * 1946 - October 27, 2019 ) was a Chinese table tennis player . He was world champion in men's singles in Sarajevo in 1973 and also with the team in Nagoya in 1971.

Style of play

Xi Enting joined the national team of the Chinese province of Hebei at the age of 14. In 1965 he came to the national team. He played table tennis with the penholder grip - in a somewhat atypical racket position (something in between the Chinese and Japanese racket positions). Xi Enting did without the topspin and scored his points with a hard, but above all precise shot.

World championships

Although Xi Enting played in the national team as early as 1965, he had to lag behind the "old guard" around Zhuang Zedong , Li Furong and Chang Chi-Lin at the 1965 World Cup in Ljubljana . In 1967 and 1969, China's athletes did not participate in events outside of China because of the Cultural Revolution . At the World Championships in Nagoya in 1971 , Xi Enting was world champion with the team and reached the semi-finals in the men's singles. In the men's singles final in Sarajevo 1973 , he defeated the impetuous attacking Swede Kjell Johansson with his precise counterattacks and became world champion. With the team, Xi Enting lost the final against Sweden.

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
CHN	Asian Championship ATTU	1974	Yokohama	JPN	silver	Semifinals	Quarter finals	1
CHN	Asian Championship ATTU	1972	Beijing	CHN	silver	Semifinals		2
CHN	Asian Games	1974	Tehran	IRI	Quarter finals	Semifinals	Quarter finals	1
CHN	World Championship	1975	Calcutta	IND	Quarter finals	Quarter finals	no participants
CHN	World Championship	1973	Sarajevo	YUG	gold	Quarter finals	no participants	2
CHN	World Championship	1971	Nagoya	JPN	Semifinals	last 32	last 16	2

Individual evidence

1. ↑ XI Enting / HSI En-Ting (CHN) ( Memento from January 26, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) (accessed on September 8, 2011)