Hu Limei

Hu Limei
Other spellings:	虎 里 美 / 虎 李梅
Nation:	People's Republic of China
Size:	166 cm
Weight:	55 kg
Playing hand:	right
How to play:	Defender
Current world rankings :	160
Best world ranking :	16 (April 2014)

Hu Limei ( Chinese  虎 里 美  /  湖 李梅 , Pinyin Hù Límeí ; born January 23, 1995 in Shanghai ) is a Chinese table tennis player .

Career

Hu Limei only made her breakthrough in 2013: In an internal qualifying tournament, she defeated reigning world champion Ding Ning and was thus able to qualify for the World Cup in Paris .

There she had to admit defeat in the round of 32 Ding Ning. Due to strong Chinese competition, she was rarely seen at major events, but won gold at the Qatar Open in 2014 and bronze at the German Open in 2016 .

Results from the ITTF database

Mention of results (extract):

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
CHN	World Championship	2013	Paris	FRA	last 32		last 16
CHN	ITTF Challenge Series	2019	Lisbon	POR	Semifinals
CHN	ITTF World Tour	2018	Daejeon	COR	last 16
CHN	ITTF World Tour	2018	Doha	QAT	Agony
CHN	ITTF World Tour	2016	Berlin	GER	Semifinals
CHN	ITTF World Tour	2014	Stockholm	SWE	last 16	silver
CHN	ITTF World Tour	2014	Doha	QAT	gold	Agony

Individual evidence

1. ↑ tabletennis.guide: Table tennis: video, photos, rankings, analytics. Retrieved October 29, 2018 . 
2. ↑ China Trials: Unknown secures World Cup ticket. In: myTischtennis.de. Retrieved October 29, 2018 . 
3. ↑ SofaScore.com LiveScore: Limei Hu. Live score, schedule and results - table tennis - SofaScore. Retrieved October 29, 2018 . 

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