Zhang Xueling Explained

Zhang Xueling
Native Name:	张雪玲
Native Name Lang:	zh
Nationality:	Singapore
Birth Date:	7 May 1983
Birth Place:	Beijing, China
Height:	1.63 m^[1]
Weight:	53 kg

Zhang Xueling (; born 7 May 1983 in Beijing, China) is a Chinese-born Singaporean table tennis player.

Zhang started playing table tennis at the age of 6 and made her first International appearance in 1999. She won four gold medals at the 2005 Southeast Asian Games, helping Singapore to sweep the women events as well as the mixed doubles.

Zhang has defeated her higher-ranked fellow Singaporean, Li Jiawei, 3 times to date: once at the 2005 Southeast Asian Games in the women's singles finals; another at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in the mixed doubles finals partnered by Cai Xiaoli against Li and her teammate, Yang Zi; and in the women's singles finals in the same Games, winning four out of five gold medals for the country.^[2]

In the Athens Olympics 2004, she went to the Games with no other target than to perform at her best. Zhang Xueling played her game and surprised the nation when she defeated 14th seed, Korea's Lee Eun Sil and Japan's Ai Fujinuma, to secure a position in the quarter-finals, before losing to Korea's Kim Hyang Mi.^[3]

However, Zhang has resigned in February, and has returned to Shanghai to join her husband, Zheng Qi. Zheng Qi was the Ex-Assistant Table Tennis Coach for the Singapore's Men's Team. Zhang's departure was due to Wang Yuegu, another Chinese-born Table Tennis Player, who has just received her Singaporean citizenship in February 2007.

Achievements

• 1998
  • Golden Racket (VIE)
    • Gold - Women's Doubles
• 2001
  • 21st SEA Games
    • Gold - Women's Team
• 2002
  • 17th Commonwealth Games
    • Gold - Women's Team
    • Bronze - Women's Doubles
  • South East Asian Championships 2002
    • Gold - Women's Team
    • Gold Women's Singles
    • Silver - Mixed Doubles
  • 14th Asian Games
    • Bronze - Women's Team
• 2003
  • Southeast Asian Games
    • Silver - Women's Doubles (partner: Tan Paey Fern)
    • Gold - Women's Team
    • Silver - Women's Singles
  • Asian Championships
    • Bronze - Women's Team
• 2004
  • Olympic Games
    • Top 8 - Women's Singles
  • South East Asian Championships
    • Gold - Women's Team
    • Silver - Women's Doubles (partner: Tan Paey Fern)
• 2005
  • ITTF Pro Tour Korea Open
    • Gold - Women's Doubles (partner: Tan Paey Fern)
  • ITTF Pro Tour China Open
    • Silver - Women's Doubles (partner: Tan Paey Fern)
  • Singapore Sports Meritorious Senior Award
  • SEA Games
    • Gold - Women's Team
    • Gold - Women's Singles
    • Gold - Women's Doubles (partner: Li Jia Wei)
    • Gold - Mixed Doubles (partner: Yang Zi)
• 2006
  • 18th Commonwealth Games
    • Gold - Women's Team
    • Gold - Women's Singles
    • Gold - Women's Doubles (partner: Li Jia Wei)
    • Gold - Mixed Doubles (partner: Yang Zi)
  • South East Asian Championships 2006
    • Gold - Women's Team
    • Gold - Women's Singles
    • Gold - Women's Doubles (partner: Tan Paey Fern)
    • Gold - Mixed Doubles (partner: Yang Zi)
  • 15th Asian Games
    • Silver - Women's Team

Notes and References

1. Web site: Biographical information Zhang Xueling . olympedia.org . OlyMADMen . 10 June 2022.
2. Web site: GOLDEN GIRL . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20070927174515/http://www.teamsingapore.com.sg/publish/teamsingapore/en/games/commonwealth/2006/news_features/latest_news/2006/golden_girl.html . 27 September 2007 . 26 March 2006 . Team Singapore.
3. News: Women's singles results . 12 August 2004 .