Lin Yun-ju

Lin Yun-ju ( Chinese林 昀 儒 / 林雲珠; Pinyin L ínyúnzhū ; born August 17, 2001 in Yuanshan ) is a Taiwanese table tennis player .

Lin Yun-Ju
Nation:	Chinese Taipei
Date of birth:	August 17, 2001
Place of birth:	Yuanshan
Playing hand:	Left
How to play:	Shakehand
Current world rankings :	7 (April 2020)
Best world ranking :	6 (March 2020)

Career

Lin's talent in table tennis was discovered very early on. In elementary school he was accepted into the LANU Table Tennis Center , where he was supported by the Taiwanese national coach Chuo Dong-i .

The Taiwanese player made his first international matches at the age of 14 and was able to gain some international experience. The year 2017 started with a bang for Lin: At the Czech Open he beat several top players one after the other, including Robert Gardos , Anton Källberg and Tiago Apolónia . It was only in the quarterfinals that Hugo Calderano stopped him.

The youth world championships in the same year were less successful for Lin, in the first round he had to give up and thus missed the opportunity to win the tournament. In 2018 he put a damper on the European euphoria, at the Hungarian and Qatar Open Lin was able to defeat other top players and thus climbed the world rankings.

In May, the China Open finally followed, at which he was able to defeat his first Chinese: Fang Bo . However, he lost to Zhang Jike at the Japan Open . Lin had set himself big goals for the Youth Olympic Games, but ultimately only finished fourth. He lost his game for third place against Tomokazu Harimoto . 2019 went like a bang for him: First of all, he cleared the Oman Open and won gold in all three competitions (singles, doubles, mixed). At the Qatar Open he was eliminated in the quarterfinals against Lin Gaoyuan , but was able to defeat players like Dimitrij Ovtcharov and Wong Chun Ting beforehand .

He also took part in the T2 APAC Malaysia tournament, where he defeated world and Olympic champion Ma Long .

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
TPE	World Championship	2019	Budapest	HUN	last 64	last 16	last 16
TPE	World Championship	2018	Halmstad	SWE				9
TPE	World Championship	2017	Dusseldorf	GER	last 128	last 32
TPE	World Championship	2016	Kuala Lumpur	MAS				17th
TPE	World cup	2019	Cheng you	CHN	3rd place
TPE	Youth Olympic Games	2018	Buenos Aires	ARG	4th Place			3
TPE	World Team Cup	2019	Tokyo	JPN				3
TPE	World Tour	2019	Olomouc	CZE	gold
TPE	World Tour	2019	Hong Kong	HKG	last 16		gold
TPE	World Tour	2019	Shenzhen	CHN	last 16		gold
TPE	World Tour	2018	Stockholm	SWE	last 16	gold
TPE	World Tour Grand Finals	2019	Zhengzhou	CHN	Quarter finals	silver	Semifinals
TPE	World Tour Grand Finals	2018	Incheon	COR		Quarter finals
TPE	Youth World Championship	2017	Riva del Garda	ITA	last 64	last 32	last 64
TPE	Youth World Championship	2016	Cape Town	ZAF	last 32	Semifinals	last 64	3

Web links

• Lin Yun-Ju biography on the website of the table tennis world association ittf.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Cedric: Lin Yun-Ju | His secret, material & training | Spin College. In: Spin College - play table tennis like the pros. September 29, 2019, accessed on December 25, 2019 (German). 
2. ↑ T2: Taiwan's jewel Lin Yun-Ju dupes China's superstars - tischtennis.de. Retrieved December 25, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Lin Yun-Ju. Retrieved February 21, 2020 . 

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Lin is the family name here, Yun-Ju is the first name.