Zeng Jian
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Native name | 曾尖 |
Nationality | Singaporean |
Born | Loudi, Hunan, China | November 19, 1996
Height | 159 cm (5 ft 3 in)[1] |
Playing style | Right-handed shakehand grip |
Highest ranking | 17 (July 2017)[2] |
Current ranking | 54 (October 2022) |
Club | Kinoshita Abyell Kanagawa |
Medal record |
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Zeng Jian (Chinese: 曾尖, born 19 November 1996) is a Singaporean table tennis player. She won three Under-21 singles titles at the 2016 ITTF World Tour.[3] She qualified and took part in the 2024 Summer Olympics at Paris.[4]
Career
[edit]In late 2014, Zeng registered with the Singapore Table Tennis Association with hopes to acquire Singaporean nationality and play for the Singapore national team.[5][3] She acquired Singaporean nationality in November 2019.[6]
2022
[edit]Zeng took part in the 2022 Commonwealth Games held in Birmingham. She won two golds in the women's team and doubles events. In the singles event, she was leading 3 sets and eventually losing to compatriot Feng Tianwei 3-4 in all-Singapore final to claim the silver. [7] She partnered Feng Tianwei to defeat the Australian duo Jee Minhyung and Jian Fang Lay 3-0 in the finals.[8]
At the 2022 World Team Table Tennis Championships at Chengdu, she led the team of Zhou Jingyi, Wong Xinru, Goi Rui Xuan and Zhang Wanling to top Group 4 by defeating Iran, Luxembourg & South Korea. [9] The team qualifies to the knock-out rounds and won Czech Republic 3-1 in the Round of 16 to progress to the Quarter-Final to face 7th seed, Chinese Taipei. [10] Zeng secured two points by defeating world no. 35 Cheng I-ching and world no. 22 Chen Szu-yu but was not enough for the win as the team fell to Chinese Taipei 2-3. Throughout this tournament, she notched an impressive streak of eight wins in seven days. [11]
References
[edit]- ^ "ノジマTリーグ 2019-2020シーズン 選手・スタッフ - ゼン ジャン(曾 尖)". T.League (in Japanese). Retrieved 2019-12-11.
- ^ "Player profile - Zeng Jian". ITTF. Retrieved 2019-12-11.
- ^ a b Chen, May (2017-03-07). "Table tennis: STTA seeks Singapore passport for Zeng". The Straits Times. Retrieved 2019-12-11.
- ^ Correspondent, David LeeSports (2024-07-28). "Singapore's Zeng Jian makes Olympic table tennis last 32; Izaac Quek, Zhou Jingyi out". The Straits Times. ISSN 0585-3923. Retrieved 2024-07-30.
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has generic name (help) - ^ Chua Siang Yee (2016-10-25). "Table tennis: Feng Tianwei cut from national squad in shock move by STTA". The Straits Times. Retrieved 2019-12-11.
- ^ "ITTF Eligibility Registration". ITTF. Retrieved 31 January 2020.
- ^ "Feng Tianwei beats Zeng Jian in all-Singapore women's singles final at Commonwealth Games". 2022-08-07.
- ^ "Singapore's Feng Tianwei and Zeng Jian win table tennis doubles gold at Commonwealth Games". 2022-08-08.
- ^ "Table tennis: Singapore women reach World Championships' knock-out rounds". 2022-10-04.
- ^ "Table tennis: Singapore women beat Czechs to make quarter-finals of World C'ships". 2022-10-05.
- ^ "Table tennis: Singapore knocked out of world team c'ships q-finals by Chinese Taipei". 2022-10-06.
- 1996 births
- Living people
- Chinese female table tennis players
- Chinese emigrants to Singapore
- Singaporean sportspeople of Chinese descent
- People from Loudi
- Kinoshita Abyell Kanagawa players
- Table tennis players from Hunan
- Chinese expatriate sportspeople in Japan
- Expatriate table tennis people in Japan
- Naturalised table tennis players
- Naturalised citizens of Singapore
- Singaporean female table tennis players
- Table tennis players at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
- Commonwealth Games gold medallists for Singapore
- Commonwealth Games medallists in table tennis
- Singaporean expatriate sportspeople in Japan
- Competitors at the 2021 SEA Games
- SEA Games silver medalists for Singapore
- SEA Games bronze medalists for Singapore
- SEA Games medalists in table tennis
- Medallists at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
- Table tennis players at the 2022 Asian Games
- Table tennis players at the 2024 Summer Olympics
- Olympic table tennis players for Singapore
- Asian table tennis biography stubs
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