Xue Fei (table tennis player)

Xue Fei
Nation:	People's Republic of China
Size:	171 cm
Weight:	70 kg
Playing hand:	right
How to play:	Attack, penholder
Current world rankings :	209
Best world ranking :	50 (December 2017)

Xue Fei (born February 10, 1999 in Beijing ) is a Chinese table tennis player .

Career

Xue was active internationally for the first time in 2012 when he won silver in the individual at the Asian Youth Championship, followed by a bronze medal and a title win with the team the following year. In 2014 he played on the World Tour for the first time and won silver at the Argentinia Open. This year he also took part in the Youth World Championship for the first time, where he won bronze in singles and mixed games and gold in doubles. In 2015 he was Asian youth champion, and in 2016 he was active in the Chinese Superleague , where he scored 8: 2 in doubles with Lin Gaoyuan . In 2017 he won the title in all four competitions at the Youth World Cup.

From 2017 it was also used more often in the adult sector. At the Czech Open he won bronze in doubles, in the round of 16 he only narrowly failed 3: 4 against world number seven Timo Boll . In the U-21 competition, he surprisingly had to admit defeat to Anton Källberg . In the summer of the same year he was active in the T2APAC tournament . He was also able to win the German and Austrian Open in his age group. At the end of the year it was ranked 50th in the world, but fell back with the introduction of the new world ranking calculation in 2018 .

At the Qatar Open 2018 he already failed in the group, but was again able to reach 1st place in the same tournament in the U21 competition. Xue also took part in the Hungarian and Swedish Open, but had to admit defeat to Fan Zhendong . He was active again in the Chinese Superleague . At the AM he also won gold with the team.

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team	U-21
CHN	Asian Games	2018	Jakarta	IDN				gold
CHN	Youth Asian Championship	2017	Asan	COR	Agony	Quarter finals	silver	gold
CHN	Youth Asian Championship	2015	Kuala Lumpur	MAS	gold			gold
CHN	Youth Asian Championship	2013	Doha	QAT	Semifinals			gold
CHN	Youth Asian Championship	2012	Guangzhou	CHN	silver
CHN	Youth World Championship	2017	Riva del Garda	ITA	gold	gold	gold	gold
CHN	Youth World Championship	2015	Vendee	FRA	silver	gold	gold	gold
CHN	Youth World Championship	2014	Shanghai	CHN	Semifinals	gold	Semifinals
CHN	ITTF World Tour	2018	Stockholm	SWE	Agony
CHN	ITTF World Tour	2018	Daejeon	COR	Agony	Semifinals
CHN	ITTF World Tour	2018	Shenzhen	CHN	Agony	last 16
CHN	ITTF World Tour	2018	Doha	QAT	Agony				gold
CHN	ITTF World Tour	2018	Budapest	HUN	last 32
CHN	ITTF World Tour	2017	Magdeburg	GER					gold
CHN	ITTF World Tour	2017	Linz	AUT	last 32				gold
CHN	ITTF World Tour	2017	Olomouc	CZE	last 16	Semifinals			Quarter finals
CHN	ITTF World Tour	2014	Santos	BRA	Quarter finals				Semifinals
CHN	ITTF World Tour	2014	Buenos Aires	ARG	silver				Semifinals

Play style

Xue Fei uses the Asian penholder style . He is known for quick forehand attacks and good backhand blocks.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ tabletennis.guide: Table tennis: video, photos, rankings, analytics. Retrieved November 5, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Youth World Cup: All gold medals go to China. myTischtennis.de, accessed on November 5, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Official ITTF Channel: 2017 Czech Open Highlights: Timo Boll vs Xue Fei (R16). August 25, 2017. Retrieved November 5, 2018 . 
4. ↑ SofaScore.com LiveScore: Xue F. live score, schedule and results - table tennis - SofaScore. Retrieved November 5, 2018 . 
5. ↑ Search racket and rubber of table tennis player style penholder. - Tabletennis Reference. Retrieved November 5, 2018 . 

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