Melek Hu

Melek Hu
Table tennis world championship 2013
Nation:	Turkey
Date of birth:	January 27, 1989
Place of birth:	Liaoning
Playing hand:	Right handed
How to play:	Shakehand
Current world rankings :	50
Best world ranking :	8 (July 2010)

Melek Hu (born January 27, 1989 in Liaoning , China ) is a Turkish table tennis player . Melek Hu has been playing table tennis for Fenerbahçe SK since the beginning of 2007 and has been a Turkish citizen since the end of 2007. She was European mixed champion in 2010, doubles European champion in 2015 and women singles in 2016.

Career

In Nantes, she qualified for the 2008 Summer Olympics . Together with her compatriot Cem Zeng , who is also of Chinese origin , she was the first table tennis player to take part in the Olympic Games for Turkey. There she retired after two wins in round three against the Japanese Ai Fukuhara . At the Olympic Games in 2012 and 2016 , she failed in the first round.

At the European Championships in 2008 she lost in the quarter-finals to the later silver medalist Liu Jia from Austria. At the European Championship 2010 she was only defeated in the semifinals by the later title holder Wiktoryja Paulowitsch with 4: 2 and won the bronze medal. In mixed she became European champion in 2010 together with Marko Jevtović and vice-European champion in 2012 together with Bora Vang . In 2016 she became European champion in singles with a 4-1 win against Fu Yu from Portugal.

In 2016 Melek Hu lived in Denmark, but plays for the Turkish club Bursa Büyüksehir Belediyespor.

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
DOOR	European Championship	2016	Budapest	HUN	gold
DOOR	European Championship	2012	Herning	THE	last 32	last 32
DOOR	European Championship	2011	Gdańsk-Sopot	POLE	last 16
DOOR	European Championship	2010	Ostrava	CZE	Semifinals
DOOR	European Championship	2008	St. Petersburg	RUS	Quarter finals
DOOR	European Mixed Championship	2011	Istambul	DOOR			Semifinals
DOOR	European Mixed Championship	2010	Subotica	SRB			gold
DOOR	European Mixed Championship	2009	Subotica	SRB			Quarter finals
DOOR	EURO TOP12	2011	Liege	BEL	Semifinals
DOOR	Mediterranean Games	2009	Pescara	ITA	gold
DOOR	Olympic games	2012	London	CLOSELY	last 128
DOOR	Olympic games	2008	Beijing	CHN	last 32
DOOR	Pro tour	2013	Stockholm	SWE	Semifinals
DOOR	Pro tour	2013	Berlin	GER	last 32
DOOR	Pro tour	2013	Changchun	CHN	last 32	last 16
DOOR	Pro tour	2013	Incheon City	COR	last 32
DOOR	Pro tour	2012	Bremen	GER	last 64
DOOR	Pro tour	2012	Kuwait City	KUW		last 16
DOOR	Pro tour	2012	Velenje	SLO	last 32
DOOR	Pro tour	2012	Budapest	HUN	last 32	Quarter finals
DOOR	Pro tour	2011	Suzhou	CHN	last 64
DOOR	Pro tour	2011	Incheon	COR	last 32
DOOR	Pro tour	2011	Shenzen	CHN	last 32	Quarter finals
DOOR	Pro tour	2011	Velenje	SLO	last 32	Semifinals
DOOR	Pro tour	2010	Warsaw	POLE	last 16	silver
DOOR	Pro tour	2010	Budaörs	HUN	last 16	Quarter finals
DOOR	Pro tour	2010	Suzhou	CHN	last 32
DOOR	Pro tour	2010	Cairo	EGY	silver	Semifinals
DOOR	Pro tour	2010	Kobe	JPN	last 16	Quarter finals
DOOR	Pro tour	2010	Berlin	GER	last 32
DOOR	Pro tour	2010	Doha	QAT	last 32	last 16
DOOR	Pro tour	2009	Warsaw	POLE	last 32	last 16
DOOR	Pro tour	2009	Bremen	GER	last 32
DOOR	Pro tour	2009	Doha	QAT		Quarter finals
DOOR	Pro tour	2008	Singapore	SIN	last 64
DOOR	Pro tour	2008	Daejeon	COR	last 64
DOOR	Pro tour	2008	Minsk	BLR	last 16			3
DOOR	Pro tour	2008	Doha	QAT	last 32
DOOR	Pro tour	2008	Velenje	SVN	last 64
DOOR	World Championship	2013	Paris	FRA	Quarter finals	Agony	Quarter finals
DOOR	World Championship	2012	Dortmund	GER				24
DOOR	World Championship	2011	Rotterdam	NED	last 32	last 32	last 64
DOOR	World Championship	2010	Moscow	RUS				26th
DOOR	World Championship	2009	Yokohama	JPN	last 64	last 32	last 64
DOOR	World Championship	2008	Guangzhou	CHN				49
DOOR	World cup	2013	Kobe	JPN	13-16 space

Web links

• Melek Hu in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original ) (accessed on June 22, 2014)
• Chinese-origin National Sportswoman To Represent Turkey At Olympic Games (accessed June 22, 2014)
• Melek Hu biography on the website of the World Table Tennis Association ittf.com (accessed June 22, 2014)

Commons : Melek Hu  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ results.ittf.link . (accessed July 1, 2018).
2. ↑ ^{a b} Winner of the Mixed European Championships ( Memento from October 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on April 11, 2014)
3. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2016/11 page 6
4. ↑ ITTF database (accessed October 24, 2019)