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Fan Zhendong

(樊振東)

Fan Zhendong
Fan Zhendong
樊振東
The latest news on Fan Zhendong, Chinese professional table tennis player, including table tennis news and updates.
Former Chinese coach Wu Jingping (right) speaks to Hao Shuai at the World Table Tennis Championships in 2005. Photo: AFP
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China’s ex-coach Wu Jingping slams WTT and ‘the mess table tennis has become’

Wu, coach from 1991 to 2021, criticises sport’s commercialisation and rules that led ex-protégé Fan Zhendong to withdraw from world rankings.

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Sun Yingsha, Wang Chuqin welcome table tennis rule changes amid WTT rankings row

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Hong Kong table tennis veteran Wong, Lam through to main draw of Singapore Smash

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Chinese table tennis fans outraged as Chen Meng, Fan Zhendong, Ma Long dropped

National team selectors omit the trio for ITTF-ATTU Asian Cup in Shenzhen, after their withdrawal from world rankings.

Chen Meng has been left out of the latest China team. Photo: EPA-EFE
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After Chinese table tennis trio withdraw from rankings, ITTF sets up task force

Vow to review rules and gather feedback from players following withdrawals of Fan Zhendong, Chen Meng and Ma Long.

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China table tennis chief backs Fan, Chen as Ma Long joins their rankings boycott

Liu Guoliang vows to push global governing bodies to change rules on skipping World Table Tennis events, calling them ‘really questionable’.

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China Olympic champions Fan, Chen stun table tennis fans with ‘retirement’ posts

The duo, separately, say their decisions to step away are due to fines that will be imposed for missing international tournaments.

China Olympic champions Fan Zhendong, left, and Chen Meng, right, have withdrawn from the International Table Tennis Federation rankings. Photo: Xinhua
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China’s Fan Zhendong pleads for privacy after supporters mob him at hotel

Three-time Olympic table tennis champion urges fans to show ‘understanding and respect’ after latest incident.

Paris 2024 Olympic Games

Paris Games: China table tennis legend Ma Long drops quit hint after sixth gold

Victory in Friday’s final against Sweden was the fourth men’s team gold for Ma over the course of a 12-year Olympic career.

Paris 2024 Olympic Games

Fan spins, slices and smashes way to first singles gold at Paris Olympics

Fan Zhendong shows strength of mind as well as skill to add men’s title to ones secured at World Championships and World Cup, sealing grand slam.

China’s Fan Zhendong poses with his gold medal. Photo: Reuters
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Fan Zhendong praised on Chinese social as Olympic gold seals career grand slam

Fan Zhendong beats Sweden’s Truls Moregard 4-1 to claim first men’s singles title in Paris

China’s Fan Zhendong celebrates after winning the men’s table tennis singles gold medal match against Sweden’s Truls Moregard. Photo: AFP
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Paris Olympics: Lyles wins men’s 100m after Djokovic, Fan golds – as it happened

Victory over Carlos Alcaraz gives Novak Djokovic the one prize he had never won, and Chinese Taipei retain badminton men’s doubles title.

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Not such a lazy Sunday in Paris: 5 things to know for day 9 at the Olympics

The rivalry between Novak Djokovic and Carlos Alcaraz is a good appetiser to the first among equals of Olympic events, the men’s 100m.

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Day of medals for China, while badminton, table tennis doubles beckon in Paris

Shooter Zhang Qiongyue wins bronze, while Long Daoyi and Wang Zongyuan pick up country’s fourth diving gold.

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Gold medallists Long Daoyi and Wang Zongyuan pose with their medals. Photo: Reuters
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While you were sleeping: 5 things to know after drama for Zhang, Fan at Olympics

Fan Zhendong risked exiting men’s table tennis and leaving China without a medal, while Zhang Yufei faced Summer McIntosh in 200m butterfly.

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China’s Zhang Yufei swims in the final of the women’s 200m butterfly in Paris. Photo: AFP
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China’s Wang Chuqin refuses to blame shock table tennis loss on damaged paddle

World No 1’s defeat in the round of 32 means China will not win gold and silver in men’s singles for first time since 2004.

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Hongkongers urged to become 7 million-strong ‘cheerleading team’ for city’s Olympians

Vivian Kong leads the charge for Hong Kong delegation, with Cheung Ka-long and Siobhan Haughey also chasing medals in first five days.

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Hong Kong mixed doubles pair’s Paris draw leaves coach Li smiling but cautious

Wong Chun-ting and Doo Hoi-kem have been placed in the lower half of the draw, away from top seeds Wong Chuqin and Sun Yingsha of China.

Hong Kong mixed doubles pair Doo Hoi-kem (left) and Wong Chun-ting will face Hungary’s world No 12-ranked Nandor Ecseki and Dora Madarasz in the first round. Photo: Mike Chan
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Ma gets shot at sixth gold, but no individual glory awaits table tennis star in Paris

Ma Long will miss out on the chance to win a third straight singles title, but is in the team tournament for the Olympics.

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Taylor Swift blamed for China ping pong champion losing world title

A champion Chinese table tennis player who lost a vitally important game that could have propelled him to the world number one spot, has been accused of not focusing on training by going to a Taylor Swift concert instead.

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A top table tennis player in China has faced online criticism for “slacking” after he went to a Taylor Swift concert in Singapore before taking part in and crashing out of a major tournament in the Lion City. Photo: SCMP composite/Weibo/Baidu/Douyin
Asian Games 2023

Hong Kong ahead of India in medal table, golfer Kho on top – Asian Games latest

Hong Kong’s women have reached the final of their squash tournament, while the city’s fencers lose to Kazakhstan in men’s team épée semi-final but pick up bronze.

Lee Ka-yi (front) beat Anahat Singh of India to send Hong Kong into the women’s squash final. Photo: Xinhua
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World table tennis medal in bag for Hong Kong duo, but which colour will it be?

Wong Chun-ting and Doo Hoi-kem to meet top seeds Wang Chuqin and Sun Yingsha of China in the semi-finals, aiming to improve on their bronzes at the 2015 and 2017 editions.

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‘I beg you to respect me’: fan steals underwear of world No 1 table tennis player

China’s leading table tennis player and current men’s singles world No 1 Fan Zhendong reports hotel break-in to police and issues a public plea for fans to respect his privacy.

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China replicates Olympics ‘closed loop’ as thousands gather for table tennis

Sport’s world team championships start on Friday in Chengdu, which until recently was under lockdown and was rattled by an earthquake earlier this month.

Germany’s Shan Xiaona has a smile during a training session ahead of the 2022 ITTF World Team Table Tennis Championships. Photo: Xinhua
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Could table tennis conquer the US? This man might be the key

Table tennis, or ping pong, is just a bit of fun for most Americans, but one commentator, whose verbal showmanship at the 2020 Olympics helped capture a new breed of fan, could change that.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA - MAY 19: Ping-pong professional Adam Bobrow poses for photos in the photobooth tub at the SPiN San Francisco Grand Opening on May 19, 2016 in San Francisco, California. (Photo by Kelly Sullivan/WireImage)
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China’s Chen reclaims world No 1 spot, Fan extends lead after Singapore Smash

Fan Zhendong continues his super men’s form to leapfrog the reigning Olympic champion Ma Long, while Chen Meng takes top spot from Sun Yingsha as the women’s title changes hands yet again.

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Hong Kong pair march into mixed doubles semi-finals at Singapore Smash

Wong Chun-ting and Doo Hoi-kem cruise into last four with 3-0 win over Japan’s Tomokazu Harimoto and Hina Hayata, who were runners up at the World Championships last November.

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