Zhang Xueling
Zhang Xueling (born May 7, 1983 in Beijing ) is a Singaporean table tennis player who has performed internationally since 1999. So far (2016) she has participated in four world championships and once in the Olympic Games . She achieved her greatest successes at continental tournaments.
Career
Zhang Xueling was born in China, but competes under the flag of Singapore. At the age of 14, she moved from China to Singapore and became a Singapore citizen in 2001. Her first international appearances took place in 1999 at ITTF Pro Tour tournaments.
She won eight gold and four silver medals at Commonwealth tournaments:
- 2000 Commonwealth Championships: bronze singles, silver doubles with Sun Li Nan, gold mixed with Cai Xiaoli
- 2001 Commonwealth Championships: bronze singles, silver doubles with Tan Paey Fern , silver mixed with Cai Xiaoli
- 2004 Commonwealth Championships: silver in singles, gold in doubles with Tan Paey Fern, gold in mixed with Cai Xiaoli, gold with the team
- 2002 Commonwealth Games : Gold with the team
- 2006 Commonwealth Games: gold in singles, gold in doubles with Li Jia Wei , gold in mixed with Yang Zi , gold with the team
She was equally dominant at the Southeast Asian Championships and the Southeast Asian Games , where she won a total of eleven times and came second four times:
- 2002 Southeast Asian Championship: gold in singles, silver in mixed with Cai Xiaoli, gold with the team
- 2004 Southeast Asian Championship: bronze in singles, silver in doubles with Tan Paey Fern, gold with the team
- 2006 Southeast Asian Championship: gold in singles, gold in doubles with Tan Paey Fern, gold in mixed with Yang Zi , gold with the team
- 2003 Southeast Asian Games: silver in singles, silver in doubles with Tan Paey Fern, gold with the team
- 2005 Southeast Asian Games: gold in singles, gold in doubles with Li Jia Wei , gold in mixed with Yang Zi , gold with the team
From 2003 to 2006 she took part in four world championships , but never came close to medal ranks. In 2004 she qualified to take part in the Olympic Games . Here she reached the quarter-finals after victories over Jasna Fazlić-Reed (USA), Lee Eun-sil (South Korea) and Ai Fujinuma (Japan), where she was eliminated against the North Korean Kim Hyang-mi . In doubles with Tan Paey Fern , she won against Jasna Fazlić-Reed / Whitney Ping (USA) and Mihaela Steff / Adriana Zamfir (Romania), but then lost to South Koreans Lee Eun-sil / Suk Eun-mi .
In the 2006/07 season, Zhang Xueling played with the Dutch club TTV Fürst Heerlen in the Champions League .
In the ITTF world rankings she was 31st from July to September 2006.
In 2007, Zhang Xueling ended her career as a competitive athlete.
Private
In September 2006, Zhang Xueling married the Singaporean table tennis trainer Zheng Qi, who died in an accident in 2007.
Results from the ITTF database
| Association | event | year | place | country | singles | Double | Mixed | team |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SIN | Asian Championship ATTU | 2005 | Jeju-do | COR | last 16 | |||
| SIN | Asian Championship ATTU | 2003 | Bangkok | THA | last 16 | |||
| SIN | Asian Cup | 2006 | Kobe | JPN | 9th place | |||
| SIN | Asian Cup | 2000 | Mumbai | IND | Semifinals | |||
| SIN | Asian Games | 2006 | Doha | QAT | 2 | |||
| SIN | Commonwealth Championship | 2004 | Kuala Lumpur | MAS | silver | gold | gold | 1 |
| SIN | Commonwealth Championship | 2001 | New Delhi | IND | Semifinals | silver | silver | |
| SIN | Commonwealth Championship | 2000 | Singapore | SIN | Semifinals | silver | gold | |
| SIN | Commonwealth Games | 2006 | Melbourne | OUT | gold | gold | gold | 1 |
| SIN | Commonwealth Games | 2002 | Manchester | CLOSELY | 1 | |||
| SIN | ITTF Pro Tour | 2006 | Bayreuth | GER | last 64 | last 16 | ||
| SIN | ITTF Pro Tour | 2006 | St. Petersburg | RUS | last 32 | Semifinals | ||
| SIN | ITTF Pro Tour | 2006 | Singapore | SIN | last 32 | Quarter finals | ||
| SIN | ITTF Pro Tour | 2006 | Kunshan | CHN | Quarter finals | last 16 | ||
| SIN | ITTF Pro Tour | 2006 | Taipei | TPE | last 32 | last 16 | ||
| SIN | ITTF Pro Tour | 2006 | Jeonju | COR | last 16 | last 16 | ||
| SIN | ITTF Pro Tour | 2006 | Zagreb | HRV | last 32 | Semifinals | ||
| SIN | ITTF Pro Tour | 2006 | Velenje | SVN | last 16 | Semifinals | ||
| SIN | ITTF Pro Tour | 2005 | Yokohama | JPN | last 16 | last 16 | ||
| SIN | ITTF Pro Tour | 2005 | Shenzhen | CHN | last 16 | |||
| SIN | ITTF Pro Tour | 2005 | Harbin | CHN | silver | |||
| SIN | ITTF Pro Tour | 2005 | Fort Lauderdale | United States | last 32 | Semifinals | ||
| SIN | ITTF Pro Tour | 2005 | Taipei | TPE | last 32 | Quarter finals | ||
| SIN | ITTF Pro Tour | 2005 | Suncheon | COR | last 32 | gold | ||
| SIN | ITTF Pro Tour | 2005 | Zagreb | HRV | last 32 | |||
| SIN | ITTF Pro Tour | 2005 | Velenje | SLO | last 16 | Quarter finals | ||
| SIN | ITTF Pro Tour | 2004 | Kobe | JPN | last 16 | |||
| SIN | ITTF Pro Tour | 2004 | Singapore | SIN | last 32 | |||
| SIN | ITTF Pro Tour | 2004 | Cairo | EGY | last 16 | last 16 | ||
| SIN | ITTF Pro Tour | 2004 | Athens | GRE | last 64 | |||
| SIN | ITTF Pro Tour | 2003 | Johor Bahru | MAS | Quarter finals | Semifinals | ||
| SIN | ITTF Pro Tour | 2003 | Kobe | JPN | last 64 | |||
| SIN | ITTF Pro Tour | 2003 | Guangzhou | CHN | last 32 | |||
| SIN | ITTF Pro Tour | 2003 | Jeju-Si | COR | last 64 | Quarter finals | ||
| SIN | ITTF Pro Tour | 2003 | Croatia | HRV | last 32 | last 16 | ||
| SIN | ITTF Pro Tour | 2002 | Eindhoven | NED | last 32 | Quarter finals | ||
| SIN | ITTF Pro Tour | 2002 | Magdeburg | GER | last 32 | |||
| SIN | ITTF Pro Tour | 2002 | Kobe | JPN | last 16 | last 16 | ||
| SIN | ITTF Pro Tour | 2002 | Gangneung City | COR | last 32 | |||
| SIN | ITTF Pro Tour | 2002 | Qingdao City | CHN | last 16 | |||
| SIN | ITTF Pro Tour | 2002 | Doha | QAT | last 32 | last 16 | ||
| SIN | ITTF Pro Tour | 2002 | catfish | AUT | last 64 | |||
| SIN | ITTF Pro Tour | 2001 | Skovde | SWE | Rd 1 | last 16 | ||
| SIN | ITTF Pro Tour | 2001 | Hainan | CHN | last 16 | Quarter finals | ||
| SIN | ITTF Pro Tour | 2001 | Doha | QAT | Quarter finals | last 16 | ||
| SIN | ITTF Pro Tour | 2000 | Umeå | SWE | Rd 1 | Quarter finals | ||
| SIN | ITTF Pro Tour | 2000 | Warsaw | POLE | last 32 | Rd 1 | ||
| SIN | ITTF Pro Tour | 2000 | Toulouse | FRA | last 32 | last 16 | ||
| SIN | ITTF Pro Tour | 2000 | Chang Chun City | CHN | Rd 1 | |||
| SIN | ITTF Pro Tour | 1999 | Karlskrona | SWE | last 16 | Rd 1 | ||
| SIN | ITTF Pro Tour | 1999 | Lievin | FRA | Rd 1 | |||
| SIN | ITTF Pro Tour | 1999 | Linz / Wels | AUT | Rd 1 | last 16 | ||
| SIN | ITTF Pro Tour | 1999 | Bremen | GER | last 32 | |||
| SIN | ITTF Pro Tour | 1999 | Kobe City | JPN | last 32 | Rd 1 | ||
| SIN | ITTF Pro Tour | 1999 | Guilin | CHN | last 32 | Rd 1 | ||
| SIN | Olympic games | 2004 | Athens | GRE | Quarter finals | last 16 | ||
| SIN | Pro Tour Grand Finals | 2005 | Fuzhou | CHN | Quarter finals | |||
| SIN | South East Asian Championship | 2006 | Singapore | SIN | gold | gold | gold | 1 |
| SIN | South East Asian Championship | 2004 | Ho Chi Min City | VIE | Semifinals | silver | 1 | |
| SIN | South East Asian Championship | 2002 | Karawaci | INA | gold | silver | 1 | |
| SIN | South East Asian Games | 2005 | Manila | PHI | gold | gold | gold | 1 |
| SIN | South East Asian Games | 2003 | Hai Duong | VIE | silver | silver | 1 | |
| SIN | World Championship | 2006 | Bremen | GER | 9 | |||
| SIN | World Championship | 2005 | Shanghai | CHN | last 32 | last 32 | ||
| SIN | World Championship | 2004 | Doha | QAT | 10 | |||
| SIN | World Championship | 2003 | Paris | FRA | last 64 | last 32 | last 64 |
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Maureen Koh: Everyone's telling me to be strong but ... Article from May 26, 2008 (accessed November 20, 2016)
- ↑ Bayern table tennis online September 2006, page 2 (accessed on November 20, 2016)
- ↑ World ranking list ( memento from November 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on November 20, 2016)
- ↑ Zhang Xueling Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed November 20, 2016)
Web links
- Zhang Xueling in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original ) (accessed November 20, 2016)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zhang Xueling |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Singaporean table tennis player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 7, 1983 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Beijing |