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Fan Zhendong (Chinese: 樊振东; pinyin: Fán Zhèndōng; born 22 January 1997) is a Chinese professional table tennis player who is currently ranked world No. 1 for men's singles by the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF).[5] After joining the Chinese National Table Tennis Team in 2012 as the youngest member of the team, he went on to become the youngest ITTF World Tour Champion and the youngest World Table Tennis Champion.[6][7] He achieved the top spot in the world rankings after holding position No. 2 for 29 consecutive months, starting from November 2015.[8]

Fan Zhendong
Fan Zhendong on ITTF World Tour 2017 German Open
Personal information
Native name樊振东
NationalityChinese
Born (1997-01-22) 22 January 1997 (age 25)
Guangzhou, Guangdong, China[1]
Playing styleRight-handed, Shakehand grip
Equipment(s)Butterfly Fan Zhendong Super ALC with DHS Hurricane 3 National (Blue Sponge) (FH, Black), Butterfly Dignics 09c (BH, Red)
Highest ranking1 (April 2018)[2]
Current ranking1 (8 November 2022)[3]
Height1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)[4]
Weight77 kg (170 lb)[4]
Medal record
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Olympic Games 1 1 0
World Championships 6 2 2
World Cup 7 1 0
Total 14 4 2
Men's table tennis
Representing  China
Olympic Games
2020 TokyoTeam
2020 TokyoSingles
World Championships
2014 TokyoTeam
2016 Kuala LumpurTeam
2017 DüsseldorfDoubles
2018 HalmstadTeam
2021 HoustonSingles
2022 ChengduTeam
2015 SuzhouDoubles
2017 DüsseldorfSingles
2015 SuzhouSingles
2019 BudapestMixed doubles
World Cup
2015 DubaiTeam
2016 SaarbrückenSingles
2018 LondonTeam
2018 ParisSingles
2019 TokyoTeam
2019 ChengduSingles
2020 WeihaiSingles
2015 HalmstadSingles
WTT Cup Finals
2021 SingaporeSingles
ITTF World Tour Grand Finals
2017 AstanaSingles
2019 ZhengzhouSingles
2019 ZhengzhouDoubles
2015 LisbonSingles
2016 DohaSingles
2013 DubaiSingles
Military World Games
2019 WuhanTeam
2019 WuhanSingles
2019 WuhanDoubles
2019 WuhanMixed doubles
Asian Games
2014 IncheonTeam
2018 Jakarta-PalembangTeam
2018 Jakarta-PalembangSingles
2014 IncheonSingles
2014 IncheonDoubles
Asian Championships
2013 BusanTeam
2015 PattayaTeam
2015 PattayaSingles
2015 PattayaDoubles
2015 PattayaMixed doubles
2017 WuxiTeam
2017 WuxiSingles
2017 WuxiDoubles
2019 YogyakartaTeam
2019 YogyakartaDoubles
2013 BusanMixed doubles
2019 YogyakartaSingles
Asian Cup
2018 YokohamaSingles
2019 YokohamaSingles
2014 WuhanSingles
2015 JaipurSingles
2017 AhmedabadSingles
East Asian Games
2013 TianjinSingles
2013 TianjinTeam
2013 TianjinDoubles
Youth Olympic Games
2014 NanjingSingles
2014 NanjingMixed team
World Junior Championships
2012 HyderabadSingles
2012 HyderabadMixed doubles
2012 HyderabadTeam
2012 HyderabadDoubles
Asian Youth Games
2013 NanjingSingles
Asian Junior Championships
2012 JiangyinSingles
2012 JiangyinDoubles
2012 JiangyinTeam

Fan's attacking style of play involves explosive footwork and powerful forehand loops.[9] His thick-set build has led fans and commentators to affectionately refer to him as "Little Fatty" (Chinese: 小胖; pinyin: Xiǎo Pàng).[1] His continuous rise to becoming one of the top table tennis players in the world has garnered him a large fanbase worldwide, with over half a million followers on Chinese social media site Weibo. In 2016, he won the ITTF Star Point Award, and he was nominated for the Best Male Star Award every year between 2013 and 2016.[10]


Playing style and equipment


Fan was a Stiga sponsored athlete. However, he used a Butterfly Viscaria blade but changed to a Stiga Infinity VPS V handle because of sponsoring Stiga. He uses a black DHS Hurricane 3 neo National Blue Sponge for forehand and a Red Tenergy 05 for backhand. During the 2019 world table tennis championships, he changed to the new Butterfly Dignics 05 on his backhand that had just been released on 1 April 2019.[11] Butterfly announced its signing of Fan Zhendong on November 1, 2021.[12]

A right-handed shakehand-grip player, Fan plays an attacking style of table tennis using his explosive footwork and thunderous forehand loops to finish off his opponents. Emerging as a 16-year-old wunderkind, Fan's playing style is often compared to his senior compatriot Ma Long. In addition to being trained by national team coaches, he has been specially trained by both Wang Hao and Ma Lin. His encounters against senior players in the Chinese national team have drawn much speculation and anticipation. His fearlessness and technique allow him to challenge highly rated, experienced players, sometimes even beating top players in thrilling style.[citation needed]


Career



2021


In May, Fan played in the Chinese Olympic Scrimmages. He won all his group matches 3–0 and defeated 16-year-old break-out star Lin Shidong, who defeated Xu Xin in the group stage,[13] 4–2 in the quarter-finals.[14] Because of Lin's similarity to Fan, he received the nickname "Little Little Fatty" by Chinese netizens. Fan defeated Wang Chuqin in the semi-finals, but lost to the dark horse champion Zhou Qihao in the finals.[15] Fan was selected alongside Ma Long to represent China in the men's singles event at the Tokyo Olympics.[16] Fan won the second leg of the Chinese Olympic Scrimmage, coming back from down 8–4 and 3–1 in games to defeat Xu Xin in the finals.[17] Fan noted that his selection onto the Olympic team helped him focus better on his training and play better in the second leg compared to the first leg.[18] Zhou again upset Fan in a closed-door scrimmage in June.[19]

Although Ma Long called Fan the favorite before their Olympic finals match-up, Ma ended up upsetting Fan 4-2 in the Olympic finals, giving Ma the gold medal and Fan the silver. Afterwards, Fan called Ma the greatest player of our generation.[20]

In September, Fan saved six match points to beat Ma Long deuce in the fifth in the finals of the team event at the China National Games.[21] Fan's win over Ma delivered Team Guangdong the gold medal. Fan Zhendong also won the gold in the men's singles event.[22]


Playing style


In 2021, Timo Boll stated that he felt that he and Fan played a similar style except that Fan was better. Boll did not elaborate further.[23]

Fan raises his elbow higher on his strokes compared to some of his contemporaries such as Ma Long, resulting in a stronger backhand-forehand transition game at the expense of a more vulnerable middle.[24]


Achievements


Majors (Olympic Games, World Championships, World Cup)
Year Event Location Type
Singles Doubles Team
2013 World Table Tennis Championships Paris, France Rd of 32 － －
2014 World Team Table Tennis Championships Tokyo, Japan － － Winner
2015 Table Tennis World Cup (Team) Dubai, UAE － － Winner
World Table Tennis Championships Suzhou, China Semi-finals Runner-up (with Zhou Yu) －
Table Tennis World Cup (Men's Singles) Halmstad, Sweden Runner-up － －
2016 World Team Table Tennis Championships Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia － － Winner
Table Tennis World Cup (Men's Singles) Saarbrücken, Germany Winner － －
2017 World Table Tennis Championships Düsseldorf, GermanyRunner-up Winner (with Xu Xin)－
2018 Table Tennis World Cup (Team) London, England － － Winner
World Team Table Tennis Championships Halmstad, Sweden － － Winner
Table Tennis World Cup (Men's Singles) Paris, France Winner － －
2019 World Table Tennis Championships Budapest, Hungary Rd of 16 Semi-finals (with Ding Ning) －
Table Tennis World Cup (Team) Tokyo, Japan － － Winner
Table Tennis World Cup (Men's Singles) Chengdu, China Winner － －
2020 Olympic Games Tokyo, Japan Runner-up － Winner
2021 World Table Tennis Championships Houston, USA Winner Quarter-finals (with Wang Chuqin) －
2022 World Team Table Tennis Championships Chengdu, China － － Winner
Asian Games, Asian Championships, Asian Cup
Year Event Location Type
Men's singles Men's doubles Men's Team Mixed doubles
2013 Asian Table Tennis Championships Busan, South Korea Quarter-finals Semi-finals (with Chen Meng) Winner －
2014 Asian Cup Table Tennis Tournament Wuhan, China Runner-up － － －
Asian Games Incheon, South Korea Runner-up Runner-up (with Xu Xin) Winner －
2015 Asian Cup Table Tennis Tournament Jaipur, India Runner-up － － －
Asian Table Tennis Championships Pattaya, Thailand Winner Winner (with Xu Xin) Winner Winner (Mixed Doubles with Chen Meng)
2017 Asian Table Tennis Championships Wuxi, China Winner Winner (with Lin Gaoyuan) Winner －
Asian Cup Table Tennis Tournament Ahmedabad, India Runner-up － － －
2018 Asian Cup Table Tennis Tournament Yokohama, Japan Winner － － －
Asian Games Jakarta, Indonesia Winner － Winner －
2019 Asian Cup Table Tennis Tournament Yokohama, Japan Winner － － －
Asian Table Tennis Championships Yogyakarta, Indonesia Semi-finals Runner-up (with Xu Xin) Winner －
ITTF World Tour
Year Location Type
Men's singles Men's doubles Mixed doubles
2013 Doha, Qatar Rd of 32 Rd of 16 －
Changchun, China Quarter-finals － －
Spała, Poland Winner Quarter-finals －
Bremen, Germany Winner Quarter-finals －
Stockholm, Sweden Runner-up Quarter-finals －
2014 Dubai, UAE* Semi-finals － －
Kuwait City, Kuwait Winner Quarter-finals －
Doha, Qatar Rd of 16 Semi-finals －
Chengdu, China Semi-finals Winner －
Stockholm, Sweden Winner Runner-up －
2015 Kuwait City, Kuwait Semi-finals Semi-finals －
Kobe, Japan Semi-finals Runner-up －
Chengdu, China Semi-finals Winner －
Warsaw, Poland Winner Rd of 16 －
Stockholm, Sweden Winner Runner-up －
Lisbon, Portugal* Runner-up － －
2016 Kuwait City, Kuwait Semi-finals Semi-finals －
Doha, Qatar Runner-up Winner －
Tokyo, Japan Winner Semi-finals －
Incheon, South Korea Semi-finals Semi-finals －
Chengdu, China Winner Runner-up －
Doha, Qatar* Runner-up － －
2017 Doha, Qatar Runner-up Quarter-finals －
Tokyo, Japan Runner-up Semi-finals －
Magdeburg, Germany Semi-finals Quarter-finals －
Stockholm, Sweden Runner-up Winner －
Astana, Kazakhstan* Winner － －
2018 Budapest, Hungary Winner Winner (with Yu Ziyang) －
Doha, Qatar Winner Winner (with Xu Xin) －
Shenzhen, China Runner-up Winner (with Lin Gaoyuan) －
Stockholm, Sweden Winner Rd of 16 (with Liang Jingkun) －
Linz, Austria Semi-finals Quarter-finals (with Wang Chuqin) －
Incheon, South Korea* Quarter-finals － －
2019 Budapest, Hungary Semi-finals Runner-up (with Lin Gaoyuan) －
Shenzhen, China Quarter-finals － Prelim Rd 2 (with Ding Ning)
Sapporo, Japan Semi-finals Winner (with Xu Xin) Semi-finals (with Ding Ning)
Busan, South Korea Quarter-finals Winner (with Xu Xin) －
Geelong, Australia Rd of 16 Semi-finals (with Xu Xin) －
Stockholm, Sweden Semi-finals Winner (with Xu Xin) －
Bremen, Germany Winner Semi-finals (with Lin Gaoyuan) －
Linz, Austria Winner Rd of 16 (with Wang Chuqin) －
Zhengzhou, China* Winner Winner (with Xu Xin) －

  *   ITTF World Tour Grand Finals


See also



References


  1. "Will Fan Zhendong be the Next Grand Slam Champion?". Team USA. Retrieved 6 April 2018.
  2. "Ranking progression". ittf.com. Retrieved 12 January 2022.
  3. "Rankings".
  4. "Athlete's Profile". 2014 Incheon Asian Games Organizing Committee. Archived from the original on 3 October 2014. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
  5. "Table Tennis: FAN Zhendong". Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 30 July 2021. Retrieved 30 July 2021.
  6. "Fan Zhendong – Table Tennis' Rising Star". International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 6 April 2018.
  7. "Fan Zhendong set on the 2017 World Championships". International Table Tennis Federation. Retrieved 6 April 2018.
  8. "April 2018 World Ranking Analysis: Fan Zhendong Tops the Chart". International Table Tennis Federation. 4 April 2018. Retrieved 7 April 2018.
  9. "I haven't reached my best: Fan". DOHA Stadium Plus. Retrieved 6 April 2018.
  10. "Fan Zhendong: I have not reached my best". International Table Tennis Federation. Retrieved 6 April 2018.
  11. "Fan Zhendong". TableTennis Reference. Retrieved 6 April 2018.
  12. "Butterfly signs contract with Fan Zhendong, World Ranking No. 1 Player". Butterfly Global. Retrieved 7 August 2022.
  13. "China Olympic Scrimmage Day 1 Singles Results – Edges and Nets". edgesandnets.com. 3 May 2021. Retrieved 6 May 2021.
  14. "Fan Zhendong Ends Lin Shidong's Cinderalla Run At China Olympic Scrimmage". edgesandnets.com. 6 May 2021. Retrieved 6 May 2021.
  15. "Zhou Qihao Wins China Olympic Scrimmage With 4–2 Upset Over Fan Zhendong". edgesandnets.com. 8 May 2021. Retrieved 8 May 2021.
  16. "Out-of-Sorts Ma Long Upset By Xu Chenhao In Chinese Olympic Scrimmage Quarterfinals". edgesandnets.com. 29 May 2021. Retrieved 29 May 2021.
  17. "Fan Zhendong and Wang Manyu Win Second Leg of China Olympic Scrimmage". edgesandnets.com. 31 May 2021. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
  18. "Fan Zhendong Recounts Chinese Olympic Scrimmage Title". edgesandnets.com. 10 July 2021. Retrieved 12 July 2021.
  19. "Liu Guoliang Downplays Expectations and Reiterates Need For Mental Strength Heading Into Tokyo". edgesandnets.com. 24 June 2021. Retrieved 25 June 2021.
  20. "Ma Long Defeats Fan Zhendong to Win Olympic Gold". edgesandnets.com. 30 July 2021. Retrieved 30 July 2021.
  21. "Lucky Fan Zhendong Saves Six Match Points to Defeat Ma Long at China National Games". edgesandnets.com. 21 September 2021. Retrieved 21 September 2021.
  22. "Fan Zhendong Cruises to China National Games Men's Singles Gold". edgesandnets.com. 26 September 2021. Retrieved 26 September 2021.
  23. "Timo Boll Talks About Chinese Table Tennis and More". edgesandnets.com. 5 September 2021. Retrieved 8 September 2021.
  24. "How Armpit Space Affects The Ma Long vs Fan Zhendong Rivalry". edgesandnets.com. 8 September 2021. Retrieved 8 September 2021.



На других языках

[de] Fan Zhendong

Fan Zhendong (chinesisch .mw-parser-output .Hant{font-size:110%}樊振東 / 樊振东, Pinyin Fán Zhèndōng; * 22. Januar 1997 in Guangzhou) ist ein chinesischer Tischtennisspieler. Er gewann viermal den World Cup, ist mehrfacher Weltmeister mit der Mannschaft und wurde 2021 Weltmeister im Einzel.
- [en] Fan Zhendong

[fr] Fan Zhendong

Fan Zhendong (en chinois : 樊振東), né le 22 janvier 1997 à Guangzhou en Chine, est un pongiste chinois de renommée internationale. Classé n°1 en avril 2018, il fait partie des meilleurs mondiaux. En 2012, il finit premier aux championnats du monde juniors en simple, double mixte et par équipes et décroche une médaille d'argent en double messieurs. En 2013, il devient le plus jeune joueur à avoir remporté deux opens d'affilée, celui de Pologne avant d'enchaîner sur celui d'Allemagne[1]. La même année, il termine 2e à l'open de Suède, frôlant de peu un troisième open d'affilée. En 2014, il finit 1er aux championnats du monde par équipe à Tokyo, et remporte le titre de Champion de Chine en battant Ma Long en finale. Aux championnats du monde de 2017 à Düsseldorf, il finit deuxième en perdant 4 sets à trois face à son coéquipier Ma Long.

[ru] Фань Чжэньдун

Фань Чжэньду́н (кит. упр. 樊振东, пиньинь Fan Zhendong; род. 22 января 1997 года, Гуанчжоу, КНР) — китайский игрок в настольный теннис. Олимпийский чемпион в командном разряде и серебряный призёр Олимпийских игр 2020 года в одиночном разряде. Шестикратный чемпион мира, шестикратный обладатель кубка мира.


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