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Feng Tianwei
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Feng at the Volkswagen Women's World Cup in Kuala Lumpur on 7 September 2008
Personal information
Full name: Feng Tianwei
Nickname(s): Le Le (Chinese: 乐乐; pinyin: Lè Lè)[1]
Nationality:  Singapore
Residence: Singapore
Playing style: Right-handed shakehand grip[2]
Equipment(s): Stiga Kelvar blade[2]
Highest ranking: 5th (November 2009)[3]
Club: Lu Neng Lu An Ji Tuan (in China Table Tennis Super League)[4]
Date of birth: 31 August 1986 (1986-08-31) (age 23)
Place of birth: Harbin, Heilongjiang, China
Height: 1.64 m (5 ft 5 in)[5]
Weight: 58 kg (130 lb) (2008)[5]
This is a Chinese name; the family name is Feng (Chinese: 冯; pinyin: Féng).

Feng Tianwei (simplified Chinese: 冯天薇; traditional Chinese: 馮天薇; pinyin: Féng Tiānwēi, pronounced [fə̌ŋ tjɛ́nwéi]; born 31 August 1986) is a Singaporean table tennis player, ranked sixth in the world as a singles player as of December 2008. Born in China, she began training in Singapore in March 2007 and commenced her international career in competitive table tennis the following month. She became a Singapore citizen in January 2008.

Feng represented Singapore for the first time in the Olympic Games at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. On 15 August, the Singapore team composed of Feng and her teammates Li Jiawei and Wang Yuegu defeated South Korea 3–2 in the semifinals. The team lost to China in the final, but obtained the silver medal. This was Singapore's first Olympic medal in 48 years and its first as an independent nation. Feng won her first professional singles title at the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) Pro Tour Polish Open in Warsaw on 30 November 2008, in an all-Singapore final against Wang. In November 2009, the ITTF announced that she was ranked fifth in the world.

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Early years

Feng Tianwei was born on 31 August 1986[5] in Harbin, Heilongjiang, People's Republic of China.[6] She is the only daughter of Feng Qingzhi, a granary worker, and his wife Li Chunping, an employee of a department store. Feng's parents, who were poor, lived frugally for years to pay for her table tennis training. Her father suffered from multiple sclerosis, but she was not told how severe his illness was. He died in 2002, weeks before Feng tried out for China's national B squad. Although Feng topped the qualifying matches a month later and was called up for the national team in 2003, she suffered from a long illness; a source close to her said it was "because she missed her father too much".[7][8] Feng left China in 2005 to play in the Japanese professional league. While there she was spotted by Liu Guodong, a coach with the Singapore Table Tennis Association, in 2006.[8] In March 2007 she was invited to train in Singapore under the Foreign Sports Talent Scheme. She became a Singapore citizen in January 2008.[6]

Career as national player

Feng made her international début for Singapore in June 2007 as an under-21 player at the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) Pro Tour Volkswagen Korean Open.[6][9] As a singles player, Feng was ranked 73rd in the world in August 2007.[3] Nonetheless, that month she achieved a silver medal in the singles at the ITTF Pro Tour Chinese Taipei Open, her compatriot Li Jiawei beating her to take the gold.[10]

Feng was a member of the silver medal-winning Singapore women's team at the World Team Championships in Guangzhou in 2008, and also defeated the top seed Zhang Yining from China in the quarter-finals of the Asian Cup held in Sapporo between 29 March and 30 March 2008, eventually achieving second place behind China's Guo Yue.[11] She obtained singles bronze medals at the ITTF Pro Tour Chile Open in April[9] and the Singapore Open in June 2008,[12] and helped the women's team to a second place at the Volkswagen Japan Open in Yokohama on 24 May 2008.[13]

2008 Summer Olympics

See also: Li Jiawei – 2008 Summer Olympics

Feng represented Singapore for the first time at the 2008 Summer Olympics in the women's table tennis team tournament. The youngest member of the team which included Li Jiawei and Wang Yuegu, she contributed significantly to Singapore's 3–2 win against South Korea in the semifinals on 15 August by defeating Dang Ye-Seo and Park Mi-Young in two singles matches. Feng's match against Park was closely fought, with Feng eventually overcoming Park 3–1. Singapore was assisted by the implementation of the expedite system when the game failed to be completed in ten minutes. Under the system, players serve on alternative points rather than on every two points. A receiving player scores a point if she manages 13 returns, which disadvantages defensive play by the server. The system unsettled Park, and Feng won two minutes after its introduction in the match when Park committed a service fault.[14] Interviewed afterwards, Feng said: "I definitely did not expect that [Park's error]. It was a surprise and the best birthday present I've ever gotten."[6]

On 17 August, Feng and her teammates gained Singapore a silver medal in women's table tennis after losing to China in three matches.[15] Feng played the starting singles match, winning the first game but eventually losing to China's Wang Nan 3–1. This was the first time Singapore had won an Olympic medal since its independence in 1965. The medal came 48 years after Tan Howe Liang won the country's first medal, a silver in weightlifting in the lightweight category at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome.[16]

Feng in action against China's Guo Yue during a quarterfinal match at the Volkswagen Women's World Cup in Kuala Lumpur on 7 September 2008

Feng and her teammates received byes into the third round of the women's singles tournament.[17] Feng defeated South Korea's Dang 4–0 in the third round and the Netherlands' Li Jie 1–4 in the fourth round,[5] but fell 4–1 to China's Zhang Yining in the quarter-finals.[18] Feng made the world number one work for her win, with the final scores being 11–13, 14–12, 12–14, 10–12, 11–13. According to the Straits Times, Zhang leveraged on her experience by stalling for time at crucial stages of the game, which broke Feng's rhythm. Interviewed after the match, Feng said: "I'm sure I'll win a medal at the next Olympics."[18]

At a victory celebration in Singapore on 25 August, Vivian Balakrishnan, the Minister for Community Development, Youth and Sports, announced that Feng, Li and Wang would be presented with the Pingat Jasa Gemilang (Meritorious Service Medal). This is only the third time the medal will be awarded to athletes, the two previous recipients being weightlifter Tan Howe Liang (1962) and swimmer Joscelin Yeo (2006).[19]

In May 2009, the national table tennis women's team, composed of Feng and her teammates Li, Wang and Sun Beibei, were awarded the Team of the Year (Event) prize at the Singapore Sports Awards.[20]

Other competitions

On 9 September 2008, Feng beat her compatriot Wang to clinch the bronze medal at the ITTF Women's World Cup in Kuala Lumpur.[21] Despite crashing out of the singles event earlier, Feng and her teammates Li and Wang won the top title and US$8,000 at the ITTF Pro Tour ERKE German Open in Berlin on 22 November 2008.[22] Feng won her first professional singles title at the Polish Open in Warsaw on 30 November, in an all-Singapore final against Wang. Feng and Yu Mengyu also took silver in the doubles championship.[23] On 2 December 2008, the ITTF announced that Feng was ranked sixth in the world. This made her the top Singapore female table tennis player and the highest-placed player in the world not representing China.[4][24] She was third in Today newspaper's list of athletes of the year for 2008.[25]

On 23 August 2009, Feng achieved her second Pro Tour singles title at the KAL Cup Korean Open in Seoul.[26]

As of November 2009, Feng had worked her way up to a fifth-place ranking in the world.[3][27]

Feng took part in the 25th Southeast Asian Games in Vientiane, Laos. She was a member of the Singapore women's team with Sun Beibei and Wang Yuegu that beat Thailand 3–0 on 10 December 2009.[28] On 14 December 2009, she and her partner Wang Yuegu were defeated by compatriots Sun Beibei and Yu Mengyu in an all-Singapore final in the women's doubles.[29] The following day, in her maiden appearance at the Games, she achieved gold in the singles competition after trouncing Wang 4–1.[30]

Medals

Event Medal Date Competition
2007
Women's singles[10] Silver 26 August 2007 ITTF Pro Tour Chinese Taipei Open
Taipei, Chinese Taipei
2008
Women's team[31]

(with Li Jiawei, Wang Yuegu, Sun Beibei and Yu Mengyu)

 Silver 1 March 2008 Evergrande Real Estate World Team Table Tennis Championships
Guangzhou, Guangdong, People's Republic of China
Women's singles[32] Silver 29–30 March 2008 2008 Asian Cup
Sapporo, Hokkaidō Prefecture, Japan
Women's singles[9] Bronze 27 April 2008 ITTF Pro Tour Chile Open
Santiago, Chile
Women's team[13]

(with Li Jiawei and Wang Yuegu)

 Silver 24 May 2008 ITTF Pro Tour Volkswagen Japan Open
Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Women's singles[12] Bronze 8 June 2008 ITTF Pro Tour TMS Singapore Open
Singapore
Women's team[15]

(with Li Jiawei and Wang Yuegu)

 Silver 13–17 August 2008 2008 Summer Olympics
Beijing, People's Republic of China
Women's singles[21] Bronze 9 September 2008 ITTF Volkswagen Women's World Cup
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Women's team[22]

(with Li Jiawei and Wang Yuegu)

 Gold 22 November 2008 ITTF Pro Tour ERKE German Open
Berlin, Germany
Women's singles[23] Gold 30 November 2008 ITTF Pro Tour Polish Open
Warsaw, Poland
Women's doubles[23]
(with Yu Mengyu)		 Silver 30 November 2008 ITTF Pro Tour Polish Open
Warsaw, Poland
2009
Women's singles[26] Gold 23 August 2009 ITTF Pro Tour KAL Cup Polish Open
Seoul, South Korea
Women's team[28]
(with Sun Beibei and Wang Yuegu)		 Gold 10 December 2009 25th Southeast Asian Games
Vientiane, Laos
Women's doubles[29] Silver 14 December 2009 25th Southeast Asian Games
Vientiane, Laos
Women's singles[30] Gold 15 December 2009 25th Southeast Asian Games
Vientiane, Laos

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Lin Xinyi (9 September 2008), "Feng upset with blogger who's using her nickname", The Straits Times (Sports): B10  .
  2. ^ a b FENG Tianwei, International Table Tennis Federation, http://www.ittf.com/biography/biography_web_details.asp?Player_ID=102712&s_Assoc=&s_Gender=&s_Name=&s_Player_ID=&, retrieved 23 August 2008  .
  3. ^ a b c World ranking record for FENG Tianwei (SIN), International Table Tennis Federation, 5 November 2009, http://www.ittf.com/_front_page/ittf1.asp?category=wr, retrieved 8 November 2009  .
  4. ^ a b Terrence Voon (5 December 2008), "Feng is new S'pore No. 1", The Straits Times (Sport): D5  .
  5. ^ a b c d Athlete biography: FENG Tianwei, Beijing 2008, Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad, 2008, http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRM/ENG/BIO/Athlete/4/202324.shtml, retrieved 18 August 2008  .
  6. ^ a b c d Chua Chin Hon (16 August 2008), "Match-winner: Win over tenacious rival gives Feng 'best birthday present'", The Straits Times: C36, http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/Sport/Story/STIStory_268729.html  .
  7. ^ Chua Chin Hon (17 August 2008), "Medal dreams come true: Gutsy Feng rewards parents' toil and sacrifice", The Straits Times: A4  .
  8. ^ a b Tan Hui Yee (26 August 2008), "The priceless power of the dream", The Straits Times: A26  .
  9. ^ a b c Ian Marshall (27 April 2008), Number one seed reserves place in women's singles final in Santiago, International Table Tennis Federation, http://www.ittf.com/_front_page/ittf_full_story1.asp?ID=15307&Competition_ID=1703&, retrieved 22 August 2008  .
  10. ^ a b Ian Marshall (26 August 2007), Li Jia Wei returns to winning ways as she succeeds in Chinese Taipei, International Table Tennis Federation, http://www.ittf.com/_front_page/ittf_full_story1.asp?ID=13232&Competition_ID=1660&, retrieved 22 August 2008  .
  11. ^ Lim Han Ming (15 August 2008), "One more step to a medal", The New Paper: 64 at 65  .
  12. ^ a b Ian Marshall (8 June 2008), Top seeds book places in women's singles final, International Table Tennis Federation, http://www.ittf.com/_front_page/ittf_full_story1.asp?ID=15665&Competition_ID=1712&, retrieved 22 August 2008  .
  13. ^ a b Japan Open 2008 – WSTM2, International Table Tennis Federation, May 2008, http://www.ittf.com/world_events/team_Indv_matches1.asp?Tour_Code=1708&Event_Type=WSTM2&P1_Assc=CHN&P2_Assc=SIN, retrieved 16 August 2008  .
  14. ^ "Compelling: How the Koreans were overcome in five matches", The Straits Times (Sport): C34, 16 August 2008  .
  15. ^ a b China women take gold, International Herald Tribune, 17 August 2008, http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/17/sports/olytableten17.php  .
  16. ^ Olympics: Singapore enter women's table-tennis team final, Channel NewsAsia, 15 August 2008, http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/sportsnews/view/368387/1/.html, retrieved 15 August 2008  ; Marc Lim (16 August 2008), "At last! S'pore assured of at least a silver after 48-year wait", The Straits Times: 1  ; Leonard Thomas (16 August 2008), "A new Olympic heroine: First medal since 1960", Today: 1 & 3, http://www.todayonline.com/articles/271233.asp  ; Leonard Thomas (18 August 2008), "A silver spark? Feng, Li and Wang could just be what's needed to fire up sports talent and development in S'pore", Today: 1–2, http://www.todayonline.com/articles/271499.asp  .
  17. ^ Low Lin Fhoong (21 August 2008), "Yuegu crashes out: Jiawei and Tianwei cruise into last 16 despite team-mate's shock loss", Today: 55, http://www.todayonline.com/articles/272095.asp  .
  18. ^ a b Marc Lim (22 August 2008), "A medal at the next Olympics, vows Feng", The Straits Times (Sport): B22  .
  19. ^ Jeanette Wang; Lin Xinyi; Valerie Chia (26 August 2008), "Cheers and national honours for winning trio", The Straits Times: A6  ; Tan Yo-Hinn (26 August 2008), "A party 48 years in the making: Team Singapore return to a grand heroes' welcome", Today: 31, http://www.todayonline.com/articles/272924.asp  .
  20. ^ Terrence Voon; Lin Xinyi (6 May 2009), "Paddlers are team of the year ... but no award for coach", The Straits Times  ; Low Lin Fhoong (6 May 2009), "Women's paddlers: 3-in-a-row", Today: 43, archived from the original on 7 May 2009, http://www.webcitation.org/5gar6xZT6, retrieved 7 May 2009  .
  21. ^ a b Feng Tianwei wins Singaporean duel to clinch bronze medal, International Table Tennis Federation, 9 September 2008, http://www.ittf.com/_front_page/ittf_full_story1.asp?ID=16314&Competition_ID=1724&, retrieved 10 September 2008  ; Lin Xinyi (9 September 2008), "Battle for third place: Feng too good for Wang in play-off after both fall in the last four", The Straits Times (Sport): B10  ; Tan Yo-Hinn (9 September 2008), "S'pore paddlers miss final: Feng grabs consolation bronze as players get used to new glue for bats", Today: 30, http://www.todayonline.com/articles/274861.asp  .
  22. ^ a b Ian Marshall (22 November 2008), Gold for Singapore, a major boost of confidence for Germany, International Table Tennis Federation, http://www.ittf.com/_front_page/ittf_full_story1.asp?ID=16746&Competition_ID=1730&, retrieved 25 November 2008  ; Lin Xinyi (24 November 2008), "S'pore win team crown: Women paddlers put aside singles losses for joint glory in Germany", The Straits Times (Sport): B13  .
  23. ^ a b c Ian Marshall (30 November 2008), Feng Tianwei collects first career ITTF Pro Tour Women’s Singles gold, International Table Tennis Federation, http://www.ittf.com/_front_page/ittf_full_story1.asp?ID=16819&Competition_ID=1731&, retrieved 4 December 2008  ; Jonathan Wong (1 December 2008), "Feng, 22, claims first professional title", The Straits Times (Sport): B10  .
  24. ^ See also Bennie Cheok (8 December 2008), "Feng's ultimate goal a singles Olympic medal? [letter]", The Straits Times: A18  .
  25. ^ Leonard Thomas (31 December 2008), "The brightest star of all: Table tennis star Li Jiawei is TODAY's Singapore Athlete of the Year 2008", Today: 24, archived from the original on 1 January 2009, http://www.webcitation.org/5dUzauUYw  .
  26. ^ a b Ian Marshall (23 August 2009), Feng Tianwei validates top billing at KAL Cup Korean Open, International Table Tennis Federation, archived from the original on 25 August 2009, http://www.webcitation.org/5jHaH2QQ8, retrieved 25 August 2009  ; Lix Xinyi (24 August 2009), "Feng wins Korean Open: Singapore paddler beats Hong Kong player for second Pro Tour title", The Straits Times: B12  ; Tan Yo-Hinn (24 August 2009), "Imperious Feng", Today: 26, archived from the original on 25 August 2009, http://www.webcitation.org/5jHZybXWJ  .
  27. ^ Lin Xinyi (7 November 2009), "Feng is new World No. 5: Steely resolve, focus and hard work behind S'pore paddler's rise", The Straits Times (Sport): C42  .
  28. ^ a b Result list – table tennis: Women's team, 25th SEA Games, Laos, Vientiane 2009, 10 December 2009, archived from the original on 16 December, http://www.webcitation.org/5m4bZNsRV, retrieved 16 December 2009  ; Lin Xinyi (11 December 2009), "Double delight: Singapore's men and women clinch table tennis team gold", The Straits Times  ; Low Lin Fhoong (11 December 2009), "Table tennis team gold sparks Singapore off", Today, archived from the original on 16 December 2009, http://www.webcitation.org/5m4c3D7kQ  .
  29. ^ a b Lin Xinyi (15 December 2009), "Sun and Yu stun Feng and Wang", The Straits Times: B8  ; Low Lin Fhoong (15 December 2009), "Sun, Yu retain doubles crown", Today: 48, archived from the original on 16 December 2009, http://www.webcitation.org/5m4Z8d0g4  .
  30. ^ a b Lin Xinyi (16 December 2009), "Table toppers: Singapore paddlers sweep singles golds to finish on a high", The Straits Times: B10  ; Low Lin Fhoong (16 December 2009), "It will be a big year for table tennis: Feng and Gao Ning win final two golds, as STTA chief looks ahead to 2010", Today: 65, archived from the original on 16 December 2009, http://www.webcitation.org/5m4Zl06E8  .
  31. ^ Ian Marshall (1 March 2008]), Singapore provides severe test as China retain women's team world title, International Table Tennis Federation, http://www.ittf.com/_front_page/ittf_full_story1.asp?ID=14878&Competition_ID=1678&, retrieved 16 August 2008  .
  32. ^ ( – Scholar search) The 21st Asian Cup 2008 in Sapporo–Japan: Total result, 29–30 March, 2008, Hokkaidō Table Tennis Association, March 2008, http://www.htta.jp/AsiaCup2008result.pdf, retrieved 16 August 2008  .

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