Zeng Jian (, born 19 November 1996) is a

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player. She won three Under-21 singles titles at the

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Career

In late 2014, Zeng registered with the Singapore Table Tennis Association with hopes to acquire Singaporean nationality and play for the Singapore national team. She acquired Singaporean nationality in November 2019.

2022

Zeng took part in the

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held in Birmingham. She won two golds in the women's team and doubles events. In the singles event, she was leading 3 sets and eventually losing to compatriot

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3-4 in all-Singapore final to claim the silver. She partnered

to defeat the Australian duo Jee Minhyung and

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3-0 in the finals. At the

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at Chengdu, she led the team of Zhou Jingyi, Wong Xinru,

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and Zhang Wanling to top Group 4 by defeating Iran, Luxembourg & South Korea. The team qualifies to the knock-out rounds and won Czech Republic 3-1 in the Round of 16 to progress to the Quarter-Final to face 7th seed, Chinese Taipei. Zeng secured two points by defeating world no. 35

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and world no. 22 Chen Szu-yu but was not enough for the win as the team fell to Chinese Taipei 2-3. Throughout this tournament, she notched an impressive streak of eight wins in seven days.

References

1996 births Living people Chinese female table tennis players Chinese emigrants to Singapore Singaporean sportspeople of Chinese descent People from Loudi Kinoshita Abyell Kanagawa players Table tennis players from Hunan Chinese expatriate sportspeople in Japan Expatriate table tennis people in Japan Naturalised table tennis players Naturalised citizens of Singapore Singaporean female table tennis players Table tennis players at the 2022 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Singapore Commonwealth Games medallists in table tennis Singaporean expatriate sportspeople in Japan Competitors at the 2021 Southeast Asian Games Southeast Asian Games silver medalists for Singapore Southeast Asian Games bronze medalists for Singapore Southeast Asian Games medalists in table tennis Medallists at the 2022 Commonwealth Games {{Singapore-tabletennis-bio-stub