Chen Xingtong: The Clutch Player in Team Events
Multiple World Championships women's team champion with China, a member of the women's team title at the 2026 London World Championships, and a long-time top-ranked women's singles player.
In a sentence
Her name usually appears in the middle of a team-event lineup — and that position means she has to win.
Playing style
- Two-winged inverted-rubber loop combined with fast attack, tight in transition and quick to react
- Steady on the backhand counter-loop, keeping placement accuracy in high-speed rallies
- Strong at executing tactics, carrying out the specific game plans the coaches set
Career and key moments
In 2019 she won back-to-back women’s singles titles at the Bulgarian and Czech Opens, beating Japanese mainstays such as Miu Hirano and Mima Ito along the way. At the 2022 Chengdu World Championships she won the women’s team title and her first world championship; she has since added two more women’s team titles and a 2025 Asian Championships women’s team title. At the 2025 Doha World Championships she beat Hina Hayata of Japan to reach the women’s singles quarterfinals.
What she left the game
Her career shows both the cruelty and the value of the competition inside Chinese women’s table tennis: to make a team-event lineup takes effort no smaller than winning an individual world title.
In a sentence: To make a team-event lineup is itself a kind of victory.