In a sentence

She was not the most talked-about name of her era, but she was one of the options the coaching staff trusted most when setting a lineup.

Playing style

  • Two-winged inverted-rubber loop, with solid fundamentals and steady rallies
  • Holds her own in mid-distance rallies, stronger the longer a point runs
  • Firmly carries out tactics, hard to knock out of her rhythm

Career and key moments

She reached the top of the World Cup women’s singles and won the World Championships women’s team title several times as a member of China’s women’s team. In the early 2000s, when Chinese women’s table tennis was extraordinarily deep in talent, she stayed in the national team’s main group for years and was a dependable link in team and doubles events.

What she left the game

She embodies the strongest part of Chinese women’s table tennis — its depth. When a team’s second and third singles are both world-champion level, the title no longer rests on any one person.

In a sentence: A pipeline is called a pipeline because every level holds up.