Wu Yue (table tennis player)

Wu Yue
Nation:	United States
Date of birth:	4th January 1990
Place of birth:	Beijing
Playing hand:	Right
How to play:	Shakehand , attack
Current world rankings :	37
Best world ranking :	33 (September 2019)

Wu Yue (born January 4, 1990 in Beijing ) is an American table tennis player of Chinese descent. She took part in the 2016 Olympic Games .

Career

Wu Yue was born in China and started playing table tennis when he was eight. In 2008 she moved to the USA, to New York. Here she was given the nickname Jennifer . She received American citizenship at the end of 2015 .

In the same year she won gold in singles and with the American team at the Pan American Games in Toronto. This authorized her to participate in the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. She came with the team in ninth place. In the singles she won against Eva Ódorová (Slovakia), then she was eliminated against the Swede Matilda Ekholm .

Web links

• Wu Yue in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original ) (accessed November 8, 2019)
• Rio 2016 Olympic Games # TABLE TENNIS - PLAYER BIOGRAPHIES WOMEN , page 29 (W_Bio_Rio2016.pdf) (accessed November 6, 2019)
• Results overview (accessed on November 6, 2019)
• Collection of results (French) (accessed November 4, 2019)
• Brief portrait and successes (accessed on November 6, 2019)
• John Blanchette: How Unranked Jennifer Wu Shocked The Table Tennis World And Made The Olympic Team , portrait from September 30, 2015 (accessed November 6, 2019)
• Jennifer Wu (Wu Yue) on JOOLA (accessed November 6, 2019)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Wu Yue: ranking history (ITTF) (accessed November 6, 2019)
2. ↑ On sports reference, the birthday is incorrectly stated as "January 14, 1990" - Wu Yue in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original ) (accessed November 8, 2019)

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Wu is the family name here, Yue is the first name.