Miyuu Kihara
is a Japanese table tennis player. Career highlights In May 2019, at the age of 14 years and 278 days, she won both the women's singles and doubles (with Miyu Nagasaki) at the Croatia Open. She was the youngest ever to win an international open tournament since the ITTF World Tour began in 1996. In December 2019, she and Nagasaki captured the women's doubles title at the 2019 ITTF World Tour Grand Finals. In January 2021, Kihara upset WR 11 Miu Hirano at the All Japan National Championships. In March 2021, Kihara advanced to the round of 16 in the WTT Contender event at World Table Tennis' inaugural event WTT Doha. Achievements ITTF and WTT finals Singles Women's doubles Junior records ;Singles * Asian Junior and Cadet Championships: 2nd (2016), 3rd (2018). ;Doubles *World Junior Table Tennis Championships: 1st (2019), 2nd (2018), 3rd (2017) * Asian Junior and Cadet Championships: 1st (2019), 3rd (2017). ;Mixed Doubles *World Junior Table Tennis Championships: 1st (201 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Akashi, Hyōgo
260px, Akashi City Hall 260px, Akashi fromAkashi Castle is a city in southern Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. , the city had an estimated population of 304,274 in 135,323 households and a population density of 6,200 people per km². The total area of the city is . Geography Akashi located in southern Hyōgo prefecture, and is a long and narrow municipality along the Seto Inland Sea. It is separated from Awaji Island by Harima Bay; however, the terminus of the Akashi Kaikyō Bridge, which connects Honshu to Awaji Island and to Shikoku, is not in Akashi but in Tarumi-ku, Kōbe. The 135th meridian east line that determines Japan Standard Time passes though the city. Neighbouring municipalities Hyōgo Prefecture * Kōbe * Kakogawa * Harima * Inami Climate Akashi has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen climate classification ''Cfa'') with hot summers and cool to cold winters. Precipitation is significantly higher in summer than in winter, though on the whole lower than in ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Han Ying
Han Ying (born 29 April 1983 as ) is a female table tennis player representing Germany since 2010. A specialist in defensive chopping, a style in decline ever since the mid-1990s, she is one of a few surviving defensive players active at the ITTF World Tour level as of 2021. Her most important achievement are the Olympic silver medal in women's team in 2016 and the fourth place in the same event in 2020. Other major awards include the second place in the 2016 World Tour Grand Finals and the fourth place in the 2020 Women's World Cup. Career Childhood training Han was born in Shenyang, Liaoning, China. In her childhood, she played as an attacker with little progress. In an effort to qualify for the top team in Shenyang, her father convinced her to switch to a defensive chopper. She plays defensively ever since. She left China at the age of 19 as her style was losing popularity in China. According to her, the China national table tennis team only had three spots reserved for de ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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ITTF World Tour Grand Finals
The ITTF World Tour Grand Finals, formerly named ITTF Pro Tour Grand Finals, is an annual table tennis tournament sanctioned by International Table Tennis Federation The International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) is the governing body for all national table tennis associations. The role of the ITTF includes overseeing rules and regulations and seeking technological improvement for the sport of table tenni ... (ITTF) at the end of the year. The tournament includes seven events: men's and women's singles, men's and women's doubles, mixed doubles (new in 2018), U21 men's and women's singles. Players who accumulated the largest number of points on the ITTF World Tour are qualified for the event, and competing for total prize money of US$1,000,000, the biggest total prize money event in the ITTF calendar. Qualification сriteria Men's and women's singles *Attend at least 5 events at ITTF World Tour. *The top 15 men and 15 women who have accumulated the largest number of points o ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Focus Taiwan
The Central News Agency (CNA) is a government-controlled news agency in Taiwan. In addition to its Chinese language edition, it also has English and Japanese editions. It has a 300-strong employee base, and overseas branches in some 30 countries. It works with a number of well-known news agencies around the world, such as the Associated Press, Reuters, Deutsche Welle, and Agence France-Presse. History The agency was founded , by the Kuomintang. Its headquarters was originally located in Guangzhou in Guangdong, but had to be relocated to Taipei in 1949, following the defeat of the Republic of China government in mainland China in the Chinese Civil War The Chinese Civil War was fought between the Kuomintang-led government of the Republic of China and forces of the Chinese Communist Party, continuing intermittently since 1 August 1927 until 7 December 1949 with a Communist victory on main .... Despite the Corporatization, corporatisation of the agency in 1973, it con ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Cheng Hsien-tzu
Cheng Hsien-tzu (; born 18 April 1993) is a Taiwanese table tennis player. She attended Chinese Culture University The Chinese Culture University (CCU; ) is a private Taiwanese university located in Yangmingshan in Shilin District, Taipei, Taiwan. CCU was established in 1962 and is one of the largest universities in Taiwan with an enrollment of about 32, .... References External links * * 1993 births Living people Taiwanese female table tennis players Chinese Culture University alumni Summer World University Games medalists in table tennis FISU World University Games silver medalists for Chinese Taipei FISU World University Games bronze medalists for Chinese Taipei Table tennis players at the 2018 Asian Games World Table Tennis Championships medalists Asian Games competitors for Chinese Taipei Taiwanese expatriate sportspeople in France Taiwanese expatriate sportspeople in Germany Sportspeople from New Taipei Medalists at the 2015 Summer Universiade ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Chen Szu-yu (table Tennis)
Chen Szu-yu (; born 1 August 1993) is a Taiwanese table tennis player. She competed for Taiwan at the 2012 File:2012 Events Collage V3.png, From left, clockwise: The passenger cruise ship Costa Concordia lies capsized after the Costa Concordia disaster; Damage to Casino Pier in Seaside Heights, New Jersey as a result of Hurricane Sandy; People gather ..., 2016, and 2020 Summer Olympics. Chen is a two-time medalist at the World Team Championships as a member of the Chinese Taipei women's team. References External links * * * * 1993 births Living people Taiwanese female table tennis players Olympic table tennis players for Taiwan Table tennis players at the 2012 Summer Olympics Table tennis players at the 2016 Summer Olympics Table tennis players at the 2020 Summer Olympics Asian Games competitors for Chinese Taipei Table tennis players at the 2014 Asian Games Table tennis players at the 2018 Asian Games Table tennis players at the 2022 Asian Games Univers ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Yang Ha-eun
Yang Ha-eun (born 25 February 1994) is a South Korean female table tennis player. She won two medals at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics The 2010 Summer Youth Olympics ( ta, 2010 கோடைக்கால இளையோர் ஒலிம்பிக் விளையாட்டுக்கள் ms, Sukan Olimpik Belia Musim Panas 2010), officially known as the I Summer ... and she was a member of South Korean women's team at the 2012 World Team Championships. In 2015, she won a gold medal in mixed doubles event with Xu Xin at the World Championships. Career 2021 Yang opened up 2021 playing better than her world ranking of 81 would indicate, including wins over Suh Hyowon (WR 21) and Choi Hyojoo (WR 64) at the Korean Olympic trials and Melanie Diaz (WR 68) at WTT Doha. References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Yang, Ha-eun South Korean female table tennis players Living people 1994 births Table tennis players at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics Tabl ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Jeon Ji-hee
Jeon Ji-hee (, born 28 October 1992), born Tian Minwei (), is a Chinese-born South Korean table tennis player. Career She competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in the women's singles event, in which she was eliminated in the fourth round by Yu Mengyu, and as part of the South Korean team in the women's team event. 2021 In March, Jeon played in WTT Doha. In the WTT Contender event, she reached the quarter-finals, where she was upset by Miyuu Kihara. In the WTT Star Contender event, she reached the semi-finals where she lost to Mima Ito is a Japanese table tennis player. She won a bronze medal in the Women's Team event at the 2016 Summer Olympics when she was 15 years old. At the 2020 Summer Olympics, she won the gold medal with her partner Jun Mizutani in the Mixed Doubles e .... It marked her fourth straight loss to Ito, a likely rival in the upcoming Tokyo Olympics. Jeon represented South Korea in the women's singles event at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Jeon reached th ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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German Open (table Tennis)
The German Open is an annual table tennis tournament in Germany, run by the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF). It is currently part of the ITTF World Tour. History The tournament was first held in 1925, and has featured on the ITTF World Tour's schedule in 1999, and then every year since 2001. China's Ma Long holds the record for most men's singles tournament wins, with five, while in the women's singles event, Mária Mednyánszky, Astrid Krebsbach, Trude Pritzi, Agnes Simon and Maria Alexandru all share the record with three wins each. Since the tournament became part of the ITTF World Tour in 1999, Chen Meng is the only player wins the women's singles event more than once. In August 2016, it was announced by the ITTF that Magdeburg has been chosen as one of six cities to host a "World Tour Platinum" event in 2017. These events will replace the Super Series as the top tier of the ITTF World Tour. The German Table Tennis Association has confirmed that the "German Op ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Hitomi Sato (table Tennis)
is a Japanese table tennis player. She won a bronze medal with Honoka Hashimoto at the 2019 World Table Tennis Championships. ITTF results Singles Doubles Career records ;Doubles * World Championships: 3rd (2019 File:2019 collage v1.png, From top left, clockwise: Hong Kong protests turn to widespread riots and civil disobedience; House of Representatives votes to adopt articles of impeachment against Donald Trump; CRISPR gene editing first used to experim ...). * Asian Championships: 3rd (2017, 2019). * Asian Junior and Cadet Championships: 3rd (2015) ;Team * World Team Cup: 2nd (2019) * Asian Championships: 2nd (2017, 2019). * Asian Junior and Cadet Championships: 2nd (2014, 2015) References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Sato, Hitomi Japanese female table tennis players 1997 births Living people World Table Tennis Championships medalists ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Honoka Hashimoto
is a Japanese table tennis player. She won a medal at the 2019 World Table Tennis Championships. Achievements ITTF Tours ''Women's singles'' ''Women's doubles'' Career records ;Doubles *World Championships: 3rd (2019). * World Tour winner (3): Australian Open (2016), Belarus Open (2016), Austria Open (2016). *Asian Championships An Asian Championship is a top level international sports competition between Asian athletes or sports teams representing their respective countries or professional sports clubs. List of Championships (Summer Olympic Sports) ;Aquatics * Asia ...: 3rd (2017). References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Hashimoto, Honoka Japanese female table tennis players 1998 births Living people World Table Tennis Championships medalists ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Saki Shibata
is a Japanese table tennis player. During the 2018 ITTF Challenge Series The 2018 ITTF Challenge Series was the second season of the International Table Tennis Federation's secondary professional table tennis tour, a level below the ITTF World Tour. Schedule Below is the schedule released by the International Table ... season she won unprecedented ten titles, including four senior singles titles. Achievements ITTF Tours ''Women's singles'' ''Women's doubles'' References 1997 births Japanese female table tennis players Living people Sportspeople from Chiba Prefecture People from Asahi, Chiba 21st-century Japanese women {{Japan-tabletennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |