Xi Enting
Xi Enting ( Chinese 郗 恩 庭 , Pinyin Xī Ēntíng , also Hsi En-Ting or Tsi En-Ting; * 1946 - October 27, 2019 ) was a Chinese table tennis player . He was world champion in men's singles in Sarajevo in 1973 and also with the team in Nagoya in 1971.
Style of play
Xi Enting joined the national team of the Chinese province of Hebei at the age of 14. In 1965 he came to the national team. He played table tennis with the penholder grip - in a somewhat atypical racket position (something in between the Chinese and Japanese racket positions). Xi Enting did without the topspin and scored his points with a hard, but above all precise shot.
World championships
Although Xi Enting played in the national team as early as 1965, he had to lag behind the "old guard" around Zhuang Zedong , Li Furong and Chang Chi-Lin at the 1965 World Cup in Ljubljana . In 1967 and 1969, China's athletes did not participate in events outside of China because of the Cultural Revolution . At the World Championships in Nagoya in 1971 , Xi Enting was world champion with the team and reached the semi-finals in the men's singles. In the men's singles final in Sarajevo 1973 , he defeated the impetuous attacking Swede Kjell Johansson with his precise counterattacks and became world champion. With the team, Xi Enting lost the final against Sweden.
Results from the ITTF database
Association | event | year | place | country | singles | Double | Mixed | team |
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CHN | Asian Championship ATTU | 1974 | Yokohama | JPN | silver | Semifinals | Quarter finals | 1 |
CHN | Asian Championship ATTU | 1972 | Beijing | CHN | silver | Semifinals | 2 | |
CHN | Asian Games | 1974 | Tehran | IRI | Quarter finals | Semifinals | Quarter finals | 1 |
CHN | World Championship | 1975 | Calcutta | IND | Quarter finals | Quarter finals | no participants | |
CHN | World Championship | 1973 | Sarajevo | YUG | gold | Quarter finals | no participants | 2 |
CHN | World Championship | 1971 | Nagoya | JPN | Semifinals | last 32 | last 16 | 2 |
Individual evidence
- ↑ XI Enting / HSI En-Ting (CHN) ( Memento from January 26, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) (accessed on September 8, 2011)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Xi, Enting |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 郗 恩 庭 (Chinese); Xī, Ēntíng (pinyin); Tsi, En-Ting; Hsi, En-Ting |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | chinese table tennis player |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1946 |
DATE OF DEATH | October 27, 2019 |