Xu Zengcai

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Xu Zengcai (born October 1, 1961 ) is a Chinese table tennis player with an international career from the 1980s. He took part in two world championships and the 1988 Olympic Games. He played for several German Bundesliga clubs.

Career

Xu Zengcai was nominated for the 1987 and 1989 world championships . In 1989 he made it to the quarter-finals in singles. At the Asian Championships in 1988 he won gold with the team. In the same year he was fourth in the World Cup .

In 1988 he qualified for participation in the Olympic Games . Here he finished fifth in doubles with Jiang Jialiang . In the individual, he failed in the round of 16 to the South Korean Kim Ki-taik . Before he had won in the group games against the German Georg Böhm , among others .

In mid-1989, Xu Zengcai was ranked eleventh in the ITTF world rankings .

Activities in Germany

Xu Zengcai was active in several German clubs. In 1985 he played in the 2nd Bundesliga at TTC Grünweiß Bad Hamm . After several years in Sweden at Lyckeby BTK, he moved to TSV Maxell-Sontheim in the 1st Bundesliga in 1993 . In the 1995/96 season he reached the final of the ETTU Cup with its men's team . In 1996 he joined the TTV Gönnern . Here he also trained the then 15-year-old Timo Boll , who lived in Gönnern. With patrons he won the German Cup in 1997 and reached the semi-finals of the ETTU Cup in 1998.

In 1999, Xu Zengcai returned to China and ended his career as a competitive athlete.

Private

Xu Zengcai is married to the Chinese national table tennis player Chen Zihe .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ World ranking list 1947-2001 ( Memento from January 10, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on August 26, 2017)
  2. ↑ DTS magazine , 1985/7 page 23
  3. ↑ DTS magazine , 1989/11 page 42 + 1993/4 page 12
  4. ↑ DTS magazine , 1996/6 page 29
  5. ↑ a b Friedhard Teuffel: The China Kracher article from October 16, 2011 on tagesspiegel.de (accessed on August 26, 2017)
  6. ↑ DTS magazine , 1999/8 page 17


Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Xu is the family name here, Zengcai is the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Xu, Zengcai
ALTERNATIVE NAMES 許 增 才 (Chinese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION chinese table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH October 1, 1961