Senior world number three and member of the Chinese team that won - TopicsExpress



          

Senior world number three and member of the Chinese team that won the 2014 World Championships, FAN Zhendong (CHN) has been selected as Chinas representative for the upcoming Youth Olympic Games Table Tennis event in Nanjing, China. 17-year-old FAN Zhendong, who shot to stardom last year by winning the German and Polish Opens as a 16-year-old, which at the time was the youngest ever winner of a World Tour event, will be one of the 32 boys and 32 girls competing for gold at the second Youth Olympic Games. China had the luxury of having an automatic position at Nanjing as Host Nation, but this was not the case for the rest of the worlds best table tennis players born between 1996-1999. They had to battle through 12 months of tough qualification, which started in Egypt and cumulated in the Cook Islands last week to secure their golden ticket to Nanjing. The 32 boys and 32 girls players that will line up at Nanjing 2014 after qualifying through various methods are:
Posted on: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 14:36:59 +0000

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