David Zhuang (

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: 莊永祥,

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: Zhuāng Yǒngxiáng, born September 1, 1963) is a

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Chinese-born American

table tennis Table tennis, also known as ping-pong and whiff-whaff, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball, also known as the ping-pong ball, back and forth across a table using small solid rackets. It takes place on a hard table div ...

player. Zhuang began playing table tennis competitively at age 11, and was a professional player at age 12. One of his schoolmates was

Jiang Jialiang Jiang Jialiang (; born March 3, 1964) is a male former international table tennis player from China. He competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics. Table tennis career From 1982 to 1989 he won many medals in singles, doubles, and team events in the A ...

, the 1985 and 1987 World Table Tennis Champion. David moved to the United States in 1990, and became one of the top players in the country. Championships won by David Zhuang: *U.S. Men's Singles, 1994, 1995, 1998, 2000, 2006 and 2008. *U.S. Men's Doubles, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2006 and 2008. *U.S. Mixed Doubles: 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1998, 1999. *Pan Am Men's Singles: 1999 *Pan Am Men's Teams: 1999 *World Consolation: 1997 He represented the U.S. in the Olympics in 1996, 2000 and 2008. Zhuang resides in

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and is married to Joannie Fu, who is also his coach. Together they have two daughters, Zoe and Cassidy. He was inducted into the

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Hall of Fame in 2003. In 2006, when he won his fifth national championship, he was 43 years old. The

magazine printed his photograph on the cover, with the heading, "He's still got it!" In the summer of 2008, he was the sole US male table tennis player competing at the Beijing Olympics. In December 2008, he became the first person to win the US Men's Singles National Championships six times. The USA Table Tennis magazine again printed his photograph on the cover, with the heading "SIX", and an article "The Perfect Year" in the magazine.

References

*USA Table Tennis website, www.usatt.org *USA Table Tennis Magazine, Mar-Apr 2007 *USA Table Tennis Magazine, Mar-Apr 2009 1963 births Living people American male table tennis players Chinese emigrants to the United States American sportspeople of Chinese descent Olympic table tennis players of the United States Table tennis players at the 1996 Summer Olympics Table tennis players at the 2000 Summer Olympics Table tennis players at the 2008 Summer Olympics People from West Windsor, New Jersey Pan American Games medalists in table tennis Pan American Games gold medalists for the United States Table tennis players from Guangdong Naturalised table tennis players Table tennis players at the 1999 Pan American Games Medalists at the 1999 Pan American Games {{US-tabletennis-bio-stub