Zhang Xueling

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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

  1. a b c Maureen Koh: Everyone's telling me to be strong but ... Article from May 26, 2008 (accessed November 20, 2016)
  2. Bayern table tennis online September 2006, page 2 (accessed on November 20, 2016)
  3. World ranking list ( memento from November 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on November 20, 2016)
  4. 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)