Sun Yingsha
Sun Yingsha 
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| Other spellings: | 孙 颖莎 |
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 People's Republic of China
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| Date of birth: | November 4, 2000 |
| Playing hand: | right |
| How to play: | Shakehand |
| Current world rankings : | 11 |
| Best world ranking : | 2 (December 2019) |
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Sun Yingsha ( Chinese 孫 穎莎 / 孙 颖莎 , Pinyin Sūn Yǐngshā ; born November 4, 2000 in Shijiazhuang ) is a Chinese table tennis player .
Career
Internationally, Sun Yingsha first appeared in 2014 when she won the Asian Youth Championships in singles. In November 2014 she was listed for the first time in the world rankings and took 68th place there. In the next few years, however, she was only able to perform internationally so that she was often not represented in the world rankings.
Their first adult tournament was the Japan Open in June 2017, in which they beat Feng Tianwei (No. 4 in the world rankings), Shan Xiaona (No. 18) and Chen Meng (No. 5) at the age of 16, among others so that gold could win. She also won gold in doubles with Chen Xingtong . At the China Open in the same month, she defeated Feng Tianwei and Liu Shiwen (No. 2), among others , before losing in the final to reigning world champion Ding Ning . In July she was ranked 10th in the world after she had been 82nd in January 2017, and won gold in singles, doubles and mixed at the Asian Youth Championships. In singles, doubles and with the team she was able to win the youth world championship in November. Due to the introduction of the new world ranking calculation , it fell back from 7th to 52nd place in January 2018. In 2019 she was able to take part in the World Cup for the first time , where she won gold in doubles with Wang Manyu - against whom she was eliminated in the quarterfinals. In the same year she became Asian champion and won the Japan , Australian and German Open , so that she moved up to second place in the world rankings in December and qualified for the Grand Finals in singles and doubles . At the German Open in 2020, she made it to the semi-finals in doubles.
Results from the ITTF database (excerpt)
| Association | event | year | place | country | singles | Double | Mixed | team |
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| CHN | Asian Games | 2018 | Jakarta | IDN | gold | gold | ||
| CHN | Asian Championship | 2019 | Yogyakarta | IDN | gold | silver | gold | |
| CHN | Youth Asian Championship | 2017 | Asan | COR | gold | gold | gold | |
| CHN | Youth Asian Championship | 2015 | Kuala Lumpur | MAS | silver | |||
| CHN | Youth Asian Championship | 2014 | Mumbai | IND | gold | |||
| CHN | ITTF World Tour | 2020 | Doha | QAT | last 16 | silver | ||
| CHN | ITTF World Tour | 2020 | Magdeburg | GER | Quarter finals | Semifinals | last 16 | |
| CHN | ITTF World Tour | 2019 | Bremen | GER | gold | Quarter finals | gold | |
| CHN | ITTF World Tour | 2019 | Stockholm | SWE | Semifinals | Quarter finals | ||
| CHN | ITTF World Tour | 2019 | Geelong | OUT | gold | |||
| CHN | ITTF World Tour | 2019 | Busan | COR | Semifinals | |||
| CHN | ITTF World Tour | 2019 | Sapporo | JPN | gold | silver | ||
| CHN | ITTF World Tour | 2019 | Doha | QAT | Semifinals | gold | ||
| CHN | ITTF World Tour | 2019 | Budapest | HUN | Quarter finals | silver | ||
| CHN | ITTF World Tour | 2018 | Linz | AUT | last 16 | silver | ||
| CHN | ITTF World Tour | 2018 | Stockholm | SWE | Agony | gold | ||
| CHN | ITTF World Tour | 2018 | Daejeon | COR | last 16 | silver | ||
| CHN | ITTF World Tour | 2018 | Hong Kong | HKG | last 16 | gold | ||
| CHN | ITTF World Tour | 2018 | Doha | QAT | Quarter finals | silver | ||
| CHN | ITTF World Tour | 2018 | Budapest | HUN | silver | gold | ||
| CHN | ITTF World Tour | 2017 | Linz | AUT | Semifinals | gold | ||
| CHN | ITTF World Tour | 2017 | Cheng you | CHN | silver | |||
| CHN | ITTF World Tour | 2017 | Tokyo | JPN | gold | |||
| CHN | ITTF World Tour Grand Finals | 2019 | Zhengzhou | CHN | Quarter finals | Semifinals | ||
| CHN | ITTF World Tour Grand Finals | 2018 | Incheon | COR | last 16 | silver | ||
| CHN | World Championship | 2019 | Budapest | HUN | Quarter finals | gold | ||
| CHN | Youth World Championship | 2017 | Riva del Garda | ITA | gold | gold | Semifinals | gold |
| CHN | World Team Cup | 2019 | Tokyo | JPN | gold | |||
| CHN | World Junior Circuit | 2016 | Taicang | CHN | silver | |||
| CHN | World Junior Circuit | 2016 | Hong Kong | HKG | Semifinals | gold | ||
| CHN | World Junior Circuit | 2015 | Taicang | CHN | gold |
Web links
- Sun Yingsha Article about Sun Yingsha on the website of the World Table Tennis Association ittf.com (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ results.ittf.link . (accessed July 1, 2018).
- ↑ chinadaily.com.cn: Youth paddler Sun Yingsha shocks table tennis world. June 26, 2017. Retrieved July 9, 2017 .
- ↑ ittf.com: Sun Yingsha defies the odds, recovers to beat Chen Meng in dramatic final. June 18, 2017. Retrieved July 9, 2017 .
- ↑ Asian Championships: Xu Xin crowns himself champion. mytischtennis.de, September 23, 2019, accessed December 4, 2019 .
- ↑ Japan Open: Duda / Qiu take silver - three titles for Xu Xin. mytischtennis.de, June 16, 2019, accessed December 4, 2019 .
- ↑ Australian Open: Franziska only just fails to Xu Xin. mytischtennis.de, July 14, 2019, accessed December 4, 2019 .
- ↑ German Open: Fan Zhendong and Sun Yingsha triumph! mytischtennis.de, October 13, 2019, accessed on December 4, 2019 .
- ↑ World ranking: Xu Xin back on the throne. mytischtennis.de, December 3, 2019, accessed on December 4, 2019 .
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| SURNAME | Sun, Yingsha |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 孙, 颖莎 (Chinese) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | chinese table tennis player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 4, 2000 |