Zhou Yu (table tennis player)

Zhou Yu
World Cup 2013
Other spellings:	周 雨
Nation:	People's Republic of China
Date of birth:	May 19, 1992
Place of birth:	Siyang
Playing hand:	left handed
How to play:	Shakehand
Best world ranking :	13 (March 2014)

Zhou Yu ( Chinese  周 雨 , Pinyin Zhōu Yǔ ; born May 19, 1992 in Siyang , Jiangsu Province , People's Republic of China ) is a Chinese table tennis player . In 2013 he took part in the World Championship for Adults for the first time and won a bronze medal in doubles with Wang Liqin .

Career

Since there were no prospects for Zhou Yu in his native Jiangsu, he moved to Henan Province at the age of eight, where he attracted attention as the best player in his age group. At the end of 2007 he became a youth international. In 2012, he won the Chinese National Adult Championship.

He appeared internationally in 2009 when he won the World Junior Cup in Hong Kong in singles. This was followed by victories at the 2010 Asian Youth Championships in singles and with the team as well as in the team competition of the 2010 Youth World Championships, where he also reached the semi-finals in singles, doubles and mixed.

In 2019, Zhou Yu was banned from the Chinese Table Tennis Association for three months because he partially tore off his racket at the Hungary Open and then wanted to continue playing with a replacement racket . However, the rules only allow the bat to be replaced if it has been accidentally damaged ("International Table Tennis Rules B", May 2017, Section 4.2.4).

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
CHN	Asian Championship ATTU (Juniors)	2010	Bangkok	THA	gold			1
CHN	Pro tour	2013	catfish	AUT	Quarter finals	last 16
CHN	Pro tour	2012	Poznań	POLE	silver	silver
CHN	Pro tour	2012	Ekaterinburg	RUS	silver	silver
CHN	Youth World Championship	2010	Bratislava	SVK	Semifinals	Semifinals	Semifinals	1
CHN	World Junior Circuit	2009	Hong Kong	HKG	gold

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Chinese Taipei Duo Maintain Outstanding Form, Top Seeds Fall in Penultimate Round (English) ( Memento from June 29, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) (accessed on May 22, 2013)
2. ↑ magazine tischtennis , 2019/2 page 6 + page 39 + international table tennis rules B ", May 2017 (accessed on February 8, 2019)
3. ↑ Zhou Yu (table tennis player) Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed May 23, 2013)

literature

• Henry James: The Unknown National Champion , table tennis magazine , 2012/11 page 51

Web links

• Zhou Yu (table tennis player) Article about Zhou Yu (table tennis player) on the website of the World Table Tennis Association ittf.com (accessed May 23, 2013)

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