In a sentence

There is nothing flashy in her game, yet she can take the hardest point when it counts most — especially against foreign opponents.

Playing style

  • Two-winged inverted-rubber loops, balanced between attack and defence, strong in rallies
  • A solid backhand that keeps delivering under high-speed pressure
  • Her forehand has improved markedly in recent years; overall she no longer has a clear weakness

Career and key moments

At the 2021 Houston World Championships she won women’s singles and moved firmly into the core of the Chinese women’s team. She went on to win women’s team gold at the 2020 Tokyo and 2024 Paris Olympics and the women’s team title at the 2026 London World Championships; at the 2025 Doha World Championships she and Kuai Man won women’s doubles, and the same year she took women’s singles at the Shenzhen Asian Cup. At the end of 2025, at the WTT Finals in Hong Kong, she won all six matches to defend her women’s singles title and rose to world No. 2. She is especially reliable against foreign opponents, one of China’s first choices against Japanese players in team events.

What she left the game

She represents the new generation’s “hard-skill” route in Chinese women’s table tennis: no tricks, just every part of the game trained until it can be used.

In a sentence: Reliability against foreign opponents is the rarest and most valuable quality in a team event.