Liang Jingkun

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Liang Jingkun Table tennis player
Nation: China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China People's Republic of China
Date of birth: October 20, 1996
Playing hand: right
How to play: Shakehand (attack)
Current world rankings : 8 (April 2020) Template: Infobox table tennis player / maintenance / local value
Best world ranking : 6 (May + July 2019)

Liang Jingkun ( Chinese  梁靖崑  /  梁靖昆 , Pinyin Liáng Jìngkūn ; born October 20, 1996 ) is a Chinese table tennis player .

Career

Liang Jingkun has been a member of the Chinese national team since 2005. In 2011 he played his first international tournament and rose to position 338 in the world rankings . At the Asian Youth Cup in 2012, he reached the semi-finals in singles and won gold the following year. In 2013 he also played his first adult tournaments and won bronze in doubles at the World Youth Championship. In 2014 he reached a place in the top 100 in the world rankings, in the Chinese Superleague he achieved a score of 7:11, and at the Swedish Open he won bronze in doubles, his first medal on the World Tour . In 2015 he was able to take part in the world championship for the first time , where he was eliminated in the round of 32 against reigning world champion Zhang Jike . In the Superleague he had a record of 24:10, beating vice world champion Fang Bo and double world champions Zhang Jike and Xu Xin , among others , and at the end of the year he reached a personal best with world number 30. Internationally, his semi-final at the Swedish Open was his only success, and in 2016 he did not play any international tournaments, but improved in the Superleague to a record of 26: 9, including victories over world and Olympic champion Ma Long and the top Chinese players Xu Xin, Fan Zhendong, and Fang Bo.

He was not given a starting place for the 2017 World Championships , but was used in numerous other tournaments, where he did not succeed in placing a medal. But he showed strong performances again in the Superleague, in which he again beat Ma Long, Fan Zhendong and Xu Xin - gold, silver and bronze medalists at the 2017 World Cup - and achieved a score of 19: 8. In 2018 he was also able to improve internationally: He reached the final of the Korea Open , in which he lost to Jang Woojin , but was only defeated by Chinese teammates in all other World Tour tournaments. After defeating the top 10 players Timo Boll , Tomokazu Harimoto , Wong Chun Ting and Lin Gaoyuan in the course of the year , he also achieved a semi-final or final victory over world number one fan Zhendong and at the Austrian Open in November about Xu Xin, with which he secured his first World Tour title in singles. He also qualified for the Grand Finals , where he was eliminated in the quarterfinals by Jun Mizutani , and achieved a score of 20: 9 in the Super League. In April 2019 he reached a place in the top 10 of the world rankings for the first time, at the World Cup in the same month - his first since 2015 - he again defeated Fan Zhendong and won bronze in both singles and doubles.

Play style

Liang is right-handed and plays the shakehand style. He is known for his offensive backhand game and his excellent balloon defense.

Results from the ITTF database

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team
CHN Asian Games 2018 Jakarta IDN gold
CHN Asian Championship 2019 Yogyakarta IDN last 16 gold gold
CHN Youth Asian Games 2013 Nanjing CHN silver
CHN Youth Asian Championship 2014 Mumbai IND silver gold
CHN Youth Asian Championship 2013 Doha QAT gold
CHN Youth Asian Championship 2012 CHN Semifinals
CHN ITTF Challenge Series 2019 Lisbon POR gold Semifinals
CHN ITTF World Tour 2019 Linz AUT last 16 gold
CHN ITTF World Tour 2019 Bremen GER Semifinals gold
CHN ITTF World Tour 2019 Stockholm SWE Semifinals silver
CHN ITTF World Tour 2019 Sapporo JPN Quarter finals Semifinals
CHN ITTF World Tour 2019 Hong Kong HKG Semifinals gold
CHN ITTF World Tour 2019 Budapest HUN last 16 gold
CHN ITTF World Tour 2018 Linz AUT gold
CHN ITTF World Tour 2018 Daejeon COR silver Quarter finals
CHN ITTF World Tour 2018 Kitakyushu JPN last 16 silver gold
CHN ITTF World Tour 2015 Stockholm SWE Semifinals Agony
CHN ITTF World Tour 2014 Stockholm SWE last 16 Semifinals
CHN ITTF World Tour Grand Finals 2019 Zhengzhou CHN Quarter finals Semifinals
CHN ITTF World Tour Grand Finals 2018 Incheon COR Quarter finals
CHN World Championship 2019 Budapest HUN Semifinals Semifinals
CHN World Championship 2015 Suzhou CHN last 32
CHN Youth World Championship 2014 Shanghai CHN Quarter finals last 16 last 32 gold
CHN Youth World Championship 2013 Rabat MAR last 16 Semifinals last 16
CHN World Team Cup 2019 Tokyo JPN gold

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ China Super League 2014 (CTTSL). tabletennisdaily.com, August 5, 2014, accessed February 27, 2018 .
  2. ↑ China Super League 2015 (CTTSL). tabletennisdaily.com, accessed February 27, 2018 .
  3. ↑ China Super League 2016 (CTTSL). tabletennisdaily.com, accessed February 27, 2018 .
  4. ↑ China Super League 2017 (CTTSL). tabletennisdaily.com, accessed February 27, 2018 .
  5. ↑ 2017 CTTSL Guide: All You Need To Know About 2017 CTTSL. tabletennissbsbb.blogspot.de, accessed on February 27, 2018 .
  6. ↑ 2018 CTTSL Guide: All You Need To Know About 2018 CTTSL. tabletennissbsbb.blogspot.de, accessed on May 12, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Liang, Jingkun
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 梁靖崑 (Chinese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION chinese table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH October 20, 1996