Ai Fukuhara: 'Ai-chan' to Chinese Fans
A four-time Olympian, silver medalist in the women's team at the London 2012 Olympics and bronze medalist at the Rio 2016 Olympics.
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A four-time Olympian, silver medalist in the women's team at the London 2012 Olympics and bronze medalist at the Rio 2016 Olympics.
A mainstay of the Chinese men's team in the 1980s, he coached it after retiring, led its revival in the mid-to-late 1990s, and later served as head coach of the Chinese national table tennis team.
Women's singles champion at Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024, the third player after Deng Yaping and Zhang Yining to defend Olympic women's singles gold.
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.
Winner of four Olympic gold medals who spent eight consecutive years as world No. 1 in women's singles, one of the most recognizable symbols of Chinese table tennis.
2017 World Cup men's singles champion and men's singles bronze medalist at both the 2012 London and 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
Women's singles champion at the Rio 2016 Olympics and the 2011 World Championships, completing a Grand Slam, and best known for her squat chop serve.
Men's singles champion at the Paris 2024 Olympics, completing a Grand Slam; a four-time World Cup and two-time World Championships men's singles champion.
A World Cup women's singles champion and multiple World Championships women's team champion with China, an important member of Chinese women's table tennis at the turn of the century.
Women's singles champion at the 2007 Zagreb World Championships and a member of the women's team champions at the 2008 and 2012 Olympics, famous from a young age.
Women's singles bronze and women's team silver medalist at the Paris 2024 Olympics, and Japan's No. 1 women's singles player in recent years.
The first man to complete the Grand Slam and 1992 Barcelona Olympic men's singles champion, known to Chinese fans as "the Evergreen" and "Lao Wa".
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