Shen Yanfei
Shen Yanfei 
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| Date of birth: | December 24, 1979 |
| Place of birth: | Shijiazhuang |
| Size: | 162 cm |
| Weight: | 65 kg |
| 1st professional season: | 2005 |
| Playing hand: | Left |
| How to play: | Shakehand |
| Trainer: | Peter Engel |
| Current world rankings : | 599 |
| Best world ranking : | 6 (March / April 2013) |
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Shen Yanfei (born December 24, 1979 in Shijiazhuang , Hebei Province , China ) is a Spanish table tennis player of Chinese origin. She obtained Spanish citizenship in 2008 and is multiple Spanish individual champion. In 2008 and 2012 she took part in the Olympic Games in Beijing and London .
At the 2013 European Championships in Schwechat, Austria, she was eliminated in the quarterfinals with 0: 4 sets against future European champion Li Fen from Sweden. In women's doubles, she achieved a bronze medal at the side of her compatriot Sara Ramírez after a 3: 4 defeat in the semifinals against the later German European champions Shan Xiaona and Zhenqi Barthel .
Shen's most successful year before 2013 was 2010: She won the Korea Open and defeated the two top ten players Feng Tianwei and Li Jia Wei , both of whom competed for Singapore. In March and April 2013, Shen reached sixth place, her highest world ranking to date.
German Bundesliga
In the early 2000s, Shen Yanfei was active in the Bundesliga . Coming from TT Turin (Italy), she played for the Assistance Coesfeld club in the 2000/01 season , then for a year at FC Langweid before moving to Spain in 2002.
Private
Shen Yanfei has been a mother to one child since 2010.
Results from the ITTF database
| Association | event | year | place | country | singles | Double | Mixed | team |
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| ESP | European Championship | 2012 | Herning | THE | last 16 | |||
| ESP | European Championship | 2010 | Ostrava | CZE | last 16 | |||
| ESP | EURO TOP12 | 2012 | Villeurbanne | FRA | 9th place | |||
| ESP | EURO TOP12 | 2011 | Liege | BEL | 5th place | |||
| ESP | EURO TOP12 | 2006 | Copenhagen | THE | 5th place | |||
| ESP | Olympic games | 2012 | London | CLOSELY | last 16 | 9 | ||
| ESP | Olympic games | 2008 | Beijing | CHN | last 32 | 9 | ||
| ESP | Pro tour | 2013 | Suzhou | CHN | last 64 | |||
| ESP | Pro tour | 2013 | Incheon City | COR | last 32 | |||
| ESP | Pro tour | 2013 | Kuwait City | KUW | last 16 | |||
| ESP | Pro tour | 2013 | Almeria | ESP | silver | |||
| ESP | Pro tour | 2012 | Bremen | GER | gold | |||
| ESP | Pro tour | 2012 | Suzhou | CHN | Semifinals | |||
| ESP | Pro tour | 2012 | Kobe | JPN | gold | |||
| ESP | Pro tour | 2012 | Almeria | ESP | Semifinals | |||
| ESP | Pro tour | 2012 | Almeria | ESP | Semifinals | |||
| ESP | Pro tour | 2012 | Velenje | SLO | last 32 | last 16 | ||
| ESP | Pro tour | 2011 | Suzhou | CHN | last 32 | |||
| ESP | Pro tour | 2011 | Kobe | JPN | last 16 | |||
| ESP | Pro tour | 2011 | Incheon | COR | last 32 | |||
| ESP | Pro tour | 2010 | Warsaw | POLE | silver | |||
| ESP | Pro tour | 2010 | catfish | AUT | last 64 | Semifinals | ||
| ESP | Pro tour | 2010 | Budaörs | HUN | last 32 | Quarter finals | ||
| ESP | Pro tour | 2010 | Suzhou | CHN | Semifinals | Semifinals | ||
| ESP | Pro tour | 2010 | Incheon | COR | gold | |||
| ESP | Pro tour | 2010 | Kobe | JPN | last 32 | Quarter finals | ||
| ESP | Pro tour | 2008 | Singapore | SIN | last 16 | last 16 | ||
| ESP | Pro tour | 2008 | Daejeon | COR | last 64 | |||
| ESP | Pro tour | 2008 | Changchun | CHN | last 32 | |||
| ESP | Pro tour | 2008 | Velenje | SVN | last 16 | last 16 | ||
| ESP | Pro tour | 2007 | Bremen | GER | last 32 | Quarter finals | ||
| ESP | Pro tour | 2007 | Toulouse | FRA | last 32 | last 16 | ||
| ESP | Pro tour | 2007 | catfish | AUT | last 16 | Semifinals | ||
| ESP | Pro tour | 2007 | Shenzhen | CHN | last 16 | |||
| ESP | Pro tour | 2007 | Taipei | TPE | last 32 | gold | ||
| ESP | Pro tour | 2007 | Nanjing | CHN | last 16 | Semifinals | ||
| ESP | Pro tour | 2007 | Seongnam | COR | last 16 | gold | ||
| ESP | Pro tour | 2006 | Warsaw | POLE | last 16 | |||
| ESP | Pro tour | 2006 | Bayreuth | GER | last 16 | Semifinals | ||
| ESP | Pro tour | 2006 | Guangzhou | CHN | last 16 | gold | ||
| ESP | Pro tour | 2006 | Singapore | SIN | last 32 | last 16 | ||
| ESP | Pro tour | 2006 | Kunshan | CHN | last 32 | Semifinals | ||
| ESP | Pro tour | 2006 | Taipei | TPE | silver | Quarter finals | ||
| ESP | Pro tour | 2006 | Jeonju | COR | last 32 | Semifinals | ||
| ESP | Pro tour | 2006 | Zagreb | HRV | last 16 | Quarter finals | ||
| ESP | Pro tour | 2005 | Gothenburg | SWE | last 32 | Quarter finals | ||
| ESP | Pro tour | 2005 | Magdeburg | GER | last 64 | last 16 | ||
| ESP | Pro tour | 2005 | Shenzhen | CHN | Semifinals | |||
| ESP | Pro tour | 2005 | Harbin | CHN | Quarter finals | last 16 | ||
| ESP | Pro tour | 2005 | Taipei | TPE | Semifinals | gold | ||
| ESP | Pro tour | 2005 | Suncheon | COR | last 16 | |||
| ESP | Pro tour | 2005 | Zagreb | HRV | Quarter finals | |||
| ESP | Pro tour | 2004 | catfish | AUT | last 32 | Quarter finals | ||
| ESP | Pro Tour Grand Finals | 2012 | Hangzhou | CHN | last 16 | |||
| ESP | Pro Tour Grand Finals | 2010 | Seoul | COR | Quarter finals | |||
| ESP | Pro Tour Grand Finals | 2007 | Beijing | CHN | Quarter finals | |||
| ESP | Pro Tour Grand Finals | 2006 | Hong Kong | HKG | Semifinals | silver | ||
| ESP | Pro Tour Grand Finals | 2005 | Fuzhou | CHN | last 16 | gold | ||
| ESP | World Championship | 2013 | Paris | FRA | last 16 | last 64 | ||
| ESP | World Championship | 2012 | Dortmund | GER | 17th | |||
| ESP | World Championship | 2011 | Rotterdam | NED | last 16 | last 32 | last 32 | |
| ESP | World Championship | 2010 | Moscow | RUS | 15th | |||
| ESP | World cup | 2013 | Kobe | JPN | 5th-8th space | |||
| ESP | World cup | 2012 | Huangshi | CHN | 3rd place | |||
| ESP | World cup | 2011 | Singapore | SIN | 13-16 space |
Web links
- Shen Yanfei biography on the website of the World Table Tennis Association ittf.com (accessed November 17, 2013)
- Shen Yanfei Article about Shen Yanfei on the website of the World Table Tennis Association ittf.com (accessed November 17, 2013)
- Shen Yanfei in Sports-Reference database (archived from original ) (accessed November 17, 2013)
Individual evidence
- ↑ results.ittf.link . (accessed on May 1, 2018).
- ↑ La china Shen Yanfei obtiene la nacionalidad española , Marca accessed March 25, 2008, November 14, 2013
- ↑ La española Yanfei Shen gana el Open de Korea , March 16, 2010, accessed November 14, 2013
- ↑ Change from Turin to Coesfeld: DTS magazine , 2000/8 p. 41
- ↑ Change from Coesfeld to Langweid: DTS magazine , 2001/6 p. 27
- ^ Change Langweid to Cartagena (Spain): DTS magazine , 2002/8 p. 32
- ↑ Ian Marshall: Harmony 2010 China Open - ITTF Pro Tour Article from August 20, 2010 on ittf.com ( Memento of the original from August 21, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Shen Yanfei results from ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed November 17, 2013)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Shen, Yanfei |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Spanish table tennis player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 24, 1979 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Shijiazhuang , Hebei Province |