Sun Yingsha

In this Chinese name, the family name is Sun.
Sun Yingsha
Sun in 2024
Personal information
Native name孙颖莎(小太阳）
Born (2000-11-04) 4 November 2000
Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China[1]
Height1.62 m (5 ft 4 in)[2]
Table tennis career
Playing styleRight-handed, shakehand grip
Highest ranking1 (1 February 2022)[3]
Current ranking1 (15 April 2025)[4]
Medal record
Women's table tennis
Representing  China
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Olympic Games 3 2 0
World Championships 9 1 1
World Cup / WTT Finals 9 1 0
Asian Games 5 0 0
Asian Championships 3 4 0
Asian Cup 0 1 0
Total 29 9 1
Olympic Games
2020 Tokyo Team
2024 Paris Mixed doubles
2024 Paris Team
2020 Tokyo Singles
2024 Paris Singles
World Championships
2019 Budapest Doubles
2021 Houston Doubles
2021 Houston Mixed doubles
2022 Chengdu Team
2023 Durban Singles
2023 Durban Mixed doubles
2024 Busan Team
2025 Doha Singles
2025 Doha Mixed doubles
2021 Houston Singles
2023 Durban Doubles
World Cup
2019 Tokyo Team
2023 Chengdu Mixed team
2024 Macau Singles
2024 Chengdu Mixed team
2025 Macau Singles
2020 Weihai Singles
WTT Finals
2021 Singapore Singles
2022 Xinxiang Singles
2023 Nagoya Singles
2023 Nagoya Doubles
Asian Games
2018 Incheon Mixed doubles
2018 Incheon Team
2022 Hangzhou Singles
2022 Hangzhou Mixed doubles
2022 Hangzhou Team
Asian Championships
2019 Yogyakarta Singles
2019 Yogyakarta Team
2023 Pyeongchang Team
2019 Yogyakarta Mixed doubles
2023 Pyeongchang Singles
2023 Pyeongchang Doubles
2024 Astana Team
Asian Cup
2025 Shenzhen Singles
Youth Olympic Games
2018 Buenos Aires Singles
2018 Buenos Aires Mixed team
World Junior Championships
2017 Riva del Garda Singles
2017 Riva del Garda Doubles
2017 Riva del Garda Team
2017 Riva del Garda Mixed doubles

Sun Yingsha (Chinese: 孙颖莎; pinyin: Sūn Yǐngshā; born 4 November 2000) is a Chinese professional table tennis player, Olympic champion, and World Champion.[1] She is the current world No. 1 in women's singles.[3][4]

Sun is the reigning Olympic gold medallist in mixed doubles with Wang Chuqin, and in the team event in both Tokyo 2020 and Paris 2024. She is also the reining World Champion and World Cup Champion.

Career

In January 2017, Sun entered the national table tennis team of China, only sixteen months after being selected for the B team. Sun won gold in the women's singles and mixed team with Wang Chuqin at the 2018 Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

2019

In the 2019 World Team Cup, Sun came back from down 10–7 in the deciding fifth game to defeat Mima Ito in the finals against Japan. In an interview in 2021, Sun referred to this match as her precious match.[5]

2021

Sun started out 2021 as number two in the world rankings.[6] However, after China's decision to withdraw from all international events until the Tokyo Olympics,[7] Mima Ito passed Sun for the number two position in the world rankings.[8] In April, ITTF amended the seeding system for the Olympics such that she would be seeded above Mima Ito.[9]

2023

On October 1, in the women's singles final of the Hangzhou Asian Games, Sun defeated Japan's Hina Hayata 4-1 to win gold. This was also Sun's third gold medal after winning both team and mixed doubles. This marked China's seventh consecutive championship in the women's singles competition at the Asian Games.[10]

2024

At the 2024 Paris Olympics, Sun won the first gold in mixed doubles for the Chinese table tennis team,[11] as well as women's team gold and women's singles silver.[12][13] At the closing ceremony of Paris 2024 Olympic games, Sun was selected to extinguish the Olympic flame as the representative of the continent of Asia, the first female to be selected for the role.[14]

Singles titles

Year Tournament Final opponent Score Ref
2017 ITTF World Tour Platinum, Japan Open Chen Meng 4–1 [15]
2018 Youth Olympic Games Miu Hirano 4–1 [16]
2019 ITTF World Tour Platinum, Japan Open Liu Shiwen 4–3 [17]
ITTF World Tour Platinum, Australian Open Ding Ning 4–0 [18]
Asian Championships Liu Shiwen 3–0 [19]
ITTF World Tour Platinum, German Open Mima Ito 4–1 [20]
T2 Diamond Singapore Mima Ito 4–3 [21]
2021 WTT Cup Finals Wang Yidi 4–2 [22]
2022 WTT Champions Macao Chen Xingtong 4–1 [23]
WTT Cup Finals Chen Meng 4–3 [24]
2023 WTT Singapore Smash Qian Tianyi 4–1 [25]
WTT Champions Xinxiang Wang Yidi 4–1 [26]
World Championships Chen Meng 4–2 [27]
WTT Star Contender Ljubljana Chen Meng 4–3 [28]
Asian Games Hina Hayata 4–1 [29]
WTT Star Contender Lanzhou Chen Meng 4–0 [30]
WTT Finals Wang Yidi 4–2 [31]
2024 WTT Star Contender Doha Chen Meng 4–1 [32]
WTT Champions Incheon Wang Manyu 4–0 [33]
World Cup Wang Manyu 4–3 [34]
WTT Champions Chongqing Wang Manyu 4–3 [35]
WTT Champions Macao Wang Yidi 4–2 [36]
WTT China Smash Wang Manyu 4–2 [37]
2025 WTT Singapore Smash Kuai Man 4–1 [38]
WTT Champions Chongqing Chen Xingtong 4–0 [39]
World Cup Kuai Man 4–0 [40]
World Championships Wang Manyu 4–3

See also

References

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  3. ^ a b "ITTF Table Tennis World Ranking Women's Singles 2022 Week #5". ittf.com. Retrieved 24 September 2022.
  4. ^ a b "ITTF Table Tennis World Ranking". ittf.com. Retrieved 8 October 2023.
  5. ^ "Sun Yingsha WTT Interview On Olympic Preparations and More". edgesandnets.com. 17 July 2021. Archived from the original on 17 July 2021. Retrieved 17 July 2021.
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  10. ^ 郝洪萱. "孙颖莎4-1战胜早田希娜 国乒亚运女单七连冠". sports.cctv.com. Retrieved 6 October 2023.
  11. ^ "Wang Chuqin and Sun Yingsha win table tennis mixed doubles gold after China's Tokyo failure". The Strait Times. 31 July 2024. Retrieved 27 February 2025.
  12. ^ "China's Chen Meng wins women's singles table tennis gold, teammate Sun Yingsha takes silver". nbcolympics.com. 3 August 2024. Retrieved 27 February 2025.
  13. ^ "China earns a 300th Olympic gold medal with women's team victory in table tennis at Paris Games". The Associated Press. 11 August 2024. Retrieved 27 February 2025.
  14. ^ Yingxue, Sun Xiaochen and Li. "Team China hailed for wins, morale". asianews.network. Retrieved 12 December 2024.
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