Shan Xiaona

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Shan Xiaona Table tennis player
Other spellings: Shan Xiao Na
Nation: GermanyGermany Germany
Date of birth: January 18, 1983
Place of birth: Liaoning
Playing hand: Right handed
How to play: Penholder
Current world rankings : 58 (February 2020) Template: Infobox table tennis player / maintenance / local value
Best world ranking : 12 (March 2017)
Current continental ranking position: 19 (February 2020)
Clubs as active:
2005-2010 GermanyGermany TV Busenbach
2010-2013 GermanyGermany FSV Kroppach
since 2013 GermanyGermany ttc berlin eastside

Shan Xiaona ( Chinese  單 曉娜  /  单 晓娜 , Pinyin Shàn Xiǎonà , born January 18, 1983 in Liaoning , People's Republic of China ) is a German table tennis player of Chinese origin. She became European champion with the German team in 2013, 2014 and 2015 and won EM silver in 2013 in singles and in 2013 and 2016 in doubles. In 2016 she won the silver medal in the team competition at the Olympic Games. She also won the German singles championship in 2013 and 2014.

Career

Shan Xiaona is a penholder player with a short pimple surface. She came to Germany in 2005 through the agency of the Busenbacher trainer Liu Liping and joined the Bundesliga club TV Busenbach . In the following years she took part in several ITTF Pro Tour tournaments, but under the flag of Singapore. In 2010 she moved to FSV Kroppach , and in September 2012 she received German citizenship. Since then she has been eligible to play for the German national team. It may be used at European championships and the Olympic Games, the right to play for world championships is contested by the world association ITTF . In 2018, the ITTF Congress defused this provision. Accordingly, there is now only a blocking period of nine years. Shan Xiaona is therefore eligible to play at the 2022 World Cup.

In the world rankings , Shan returned to the top 100 in December 2012, to which she had already belonged under the flag of Singapore. In January 2013 she played her first international match for Germany. She won against the Romanian Camelia Postoaca 3-0. At the beginning of March she became German individual champion in Bamberg , defeating Zhenqi Barthel 3-2 in the final . In doubles, she came second with her partner Zhenqi Barthel. In 2014 she defended the singles title and won the doubles competition with Kristin Silbereisen .

Since Kroppach withdrew his team from the Bundesliga at the end of the 2012/13 season, Sahn Xiaona switched to ttc berlin eastside . At the 2013 European Championships in Schwechat , she won the title with the German team. In the individual, she won the silver medal: After defeating teammate Han Ying in the semifinals , she was defeated by the Swede Li Fen in the final . She also came second in doubles; with Zhenqi Barthel she lost to the duo Petrissa Solja / Sabine Winter as in the German championships . Since July 2013 she has been in the top 50 of the world rankings for the first time.

At the European Championship in Lisbon in 2014 , she won the title again with the German team. She won all of her four games in the decisive fifth set. This year she also won the German Open in singles, thus taking her first title on the World Tour and qualified for the first time in both singles and doubles with Petrissa Solja for the Grand Finals, where she did in the first round was subject in the decision set. At the European Games in 2015 she won team gold together with Han Ying and Petrissa Solja , as well as at the European Championships in 2015 in Yekaterinburg . Shan won the German and Austrian Open in doubles with Solja, but at the Grand Finals at the end of the year she was eliminated in both competitions in the first round. At the 2016 Olympic Games , she and the team won the silver medal after beating Japan 3-2 in the semifinals and losing 3-0 in the final against the Chinese team. In the same year she became vice-European champion in doubles together with Petrissa Solja . As in the previous year, she was eliminated in the round of 16. In addition, the qualification for the Grand Finals was successful for the third time in a row in singles and doubles , but for the third time in a row the first round meant the end.

In 2017 Shan defeated Zhu Yuling , second in the world rankings , at the Qatar Open and reached the semi-finals, which made her 12th in the world rankings in March. At the European team she surprisingly only won silver with the German team, this time she only took part in the individual at the Grand Finals and was eliminated in the first round against Chen Xingtong . After she had not contested any international tournaments in 2018 due to the birth of her daughter and had fallen far behind in the world rankings, she returned in 2019 and won gold with the German team at the European Games , but together they failed together at the European Championship a few months later in the quarter-finals Portugal.

Private

Shan Xiaona lives in Düsseldorf and is married to Zhang Yong, a coach of the Chinese Super League . In 2017 she received a place at the University of Shanghai for Sports Humanities and Sociology. It is very difficult for Chinese citizens to be accepted there, but Shan Xiaona was considered a foreigner with her German passport and therefore only had to prove knowledge of the Chinese language. In July 2018, she became the mother of a girl.

Results from the ITTF database

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team
GER European Championship 2019 Nantes FRA Quarter finals
GER European Championship 2017 Luxembourg LUX silver
GER European Championship 2016 Budapest RUS last 16 silver
GER European Championship 2015 Ekaterinburg RUS last 16 Quarter finals gold
GER European Championship 2014 Lisbon POR gold
GER European Championship 2013 Schwechat AUT silver silver gold
GER European Games 2019 Minsk BLR gold
GER European Games 2015 Baku AZE gold
GER Olympic games 2016 Rio de Janeiro BRA silver
GER Challenge Series 2020 Granada ESP Semifinals Semifinals
GER World Tour 2017 Incheon COR last 16 gold
GER World Tour 2017 Doha QAT Semifinals last 16
GER World Tour 2016 Budapest HUN last 16 Semifinals
GER World Tour 2015 catfish AUT last 32 gold
GER World Tour 2015 Incheon COR Semifinals
GER World Tour 2015 Zagreb CRO silver Semifinals
GER World Tour 2015 Bremen GER last 16 gold
GER World Tour 2014 Ekaterinburg RUS Semifinals last 16
GER World Tour 2014 Olomouc GER last 64 silver
GER World Tour 2014 Magdeburg GER gold Semifinals
GER World Tour 2014 Doha QAT last 64 Semifinals
GER World Tour 2013 Dubai UAE Semifinals
GER World Tour 2013 Berlin GER last 64
GER World Tour 2013 Spala POLE last 64 silver
GER World Tour 2013 Olomouc CZE Quarter finals
GER World Tour 2013 Yokohama JPN last 16 Quarter finals
GER World Tour 2013 Changchun CHN last 16 Quarter finals
GER World Tour 2013 Doha QAT last 16 silver
GER World Tour 2013 catfish AUT last 64 Quarter finals
GER World Tour 2012 Poznań POLE last 16 last 16
GER World Tour 2012 Bremen GER Quarter finals
SIN Pro tour 2007 Bremen GER last 64
SIN Pro tour 2007 Toulouse FRA last 64 last 16
SIN Pro tour 2007 catfish AUT last 32 Quarter finals
SIN Pro tour 2007 Nanjing CHN last 32 last 16
SIN Pro tour 2007 Velenje SVN last 64
SIN Pro tour 2007 Zagreb HRV last 32 Semifinals
SIN Pro tour 2006 Bayreuth GER Quarter finals Quarter finals
GER World Tour Grand Finals 2017 Astana KAZ last 16
GER World Tour Grand Finals 2016 Doha QAT last 16 Quarter finals
GER World Tour Grand Finals 2015 Lisbon POR last 16 Quarter finals
GER World Tour Grand Finals 2014 Bangkok THA last 16 Quarter finals

Sources: see below

literature

  • Peter Hepfer: Shan Xiao Na - preference for bratwurst and catwalk , table tennis magazine , 2010/2 pages 20–21
  • Susanne Heuing: Nana for Germany , tischtennis magazine , 2012/12 page 17

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Change of club to Busenbach ( memento from April 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), accessed on March 9, 2013
  2. ↑ Change of club to Kroppach ( memento from April 12, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), accessed on March 9, 2013
  3. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2013/1 page 7
  4. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2018/5 page 21
  5. ↑ First international match for DE - Shan Xiaona (Kropapch) ( Memento from March 18, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on March 9, 2013
  6. ↑ a b magazine tischtennis , 2013/3 page 13
  7. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2013/3 page 30
  8. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2013/3 page 22
  9. ↑ German Open: Ovtcharov and Shan get the title! mytischtennis.de, March 30, 2014, accessed on September 15, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Grand Finals in Bangkok: Final round of 16 for Han Ying and Shan Xiaona. tischtennis.de, December 12, 2014, accessed on September 15, 2019 .
  11. ↑ German Open: Double double gold for Germany! mytischtennis.de, March 22, 2015, accessed on September 15, 2019 .
  12. ^ Mizutani and Han winners of the table tennis Austrian Open. salzburg24.at, September 6, 2015, accessed on September 15, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Grand Finals: Ovtcharov and Han are in the quarterfinals. mytischtennis.de, December 11, 2015, accessed on September 15, 2019 .
  14. ↑ Table tennis women win silver. ZEIT ONLINE , August 17, 2016, accessed on September 15, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Grand Finals: Quarter-finals for doubles Shan / Solja / German singles on Friday. tischtennis.de, December 8, 2016, accessed September 15, 2019 .
  16. ↑ Grand Finals: Ovtcharov in the quarter-finals against Fan / Han in the semifinals after a successful win over a sick world champion without a fight. tischtennis.de, December 9, 2016, accessed September 15, 2019 .
  17. ↑ Qatar: Shan knocks out top Chinese, Han and Ovtcharov! mytischtennis.de, February 24, 2017, accessed on September 15, 2019 .
  18. ↑ Qatar Open: Shan eliminated in the semifinals. mytischtennis.de, February 25, 2017, accessed on September 15, 2019 .
  19. ↑ World rankings in March: Shan Xiaona makes a giant leap to 12th place tischtennis.de, March 2, 2017, accessed on September 15, 2019 .
  20. ↑ Silver tears. SZ-Online , September 17, 2017, accessed on September 15, 2019 .
  21. ↑ Grand Finals: Boll moves into the quarterfinals. mytischtennis.de, December 14, 2017, accessed on September 15, 2019 .
  22. ↑ EM: DTTB women eliminated in the quarterfinals! mytischtennis.de, September 6, 2019, accessed on September 15, 2019 .
  23. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2017/12 page 7
  24. ↑ Shan Xiaona's daughter: Welcome to life, little Mia! , Article from July 20, 2018, on tischtennis.de, accessed on May 20, 2019
  25. ↑ Shan Xiaona Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com, accessed June 26, 2014
Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Shan is the family name here, Xiaona is the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Shan Xiaona
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Shan Xiao Na
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Liaoning , People's Republic of China