Fan Zhendong
Fan Zhendong (Chinese: 樊振东; pinyin: Fán Zhèndōng; born 22 January 1997) is a Chinese professional table tennis player.[1] After joining the Chinese National Table Tennis Team in 2012 as the youngest member of the team, he went on to become the youngest ITTF World Tour Champion and the youngest World Table Tennis Champion.[5][6] In April 2018, he achieved the top spot in the world rankings after holding position No. 2 for 29 consecutive months, starting from November 2015.[7]
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Native name | 樊振东 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Guangzhou, Guangdong, China[1] | 22 January 1997|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)[2] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 77 kg (170 lb)[2] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Table tennis career | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Playing style | Right-handed, shakehand grip | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Equipment(s) | Butterfly Fan Zhendong ALC with DHS Hurricane 3 National (Blue Sponge) (FH, Black), Butterfly Dignics 09c (BH, Red)[3] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Highest ranking | 1 (April 2018)[4] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Current ranking | 2 (10 October 2023) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Fan's attacking style of play involves explosive footwork and powerful forehand loops.[8] His thick-set build has led fans and commentators to affectionately refer to him as "Little Fatty" (Chinese: 小胖; pinyin: Xiǎo Pàng).[9] His continuous rise to becoming one of the top table tennis players in the world has garnered him a large fanbase worldwide, with over half a million followers on Chinese social media site Weibo. In 2016, he won the ITTF Star Point Award, and he was nominated for the Best Male Star Award every year between 2013 and 2016.[10]
Playing style and equipment
A right-handed shakehand-grip player, Fan plays an attacking style of table tennis using his explosive footwork and thunderous and well placed loops to finish off his opponents. Emerging as a 16-year-old wunderkind, Fan's playing style is often compared to his senior compatriot Ma Long. In addition to being trained by national team coaches, he has been specially trained by both Wang Hao and Ma Lin. His encounters against senior players in the Chinese national team have drawn much speculation and anticipation. His fearlessness and technique allow him to challenge highly rated, experienced players, sometimes even beating top players in thrilling style.
Fan raises his elbow higher on his strokes compared to some of his contemporaries such as Ma Long, resulting in a stronger backhand-forehand transition game at the expense of a more vulnerable middle.[11] In 2021, Timo Boll stated that he felt that he and Fan played a similar style except that Fan was better. Boll did not elaborate further.[12]
Fan was a Stiga sponsored athlete. However, he changed to Butterfly Fan Zhendong ALC, he uses a black DHS Hurricane 3 neo National Blue Sponge for forehand and a Red Tenergy 05 for backhand. During the 2019 world table tennis championships, he changed to the new Butterfly Dignics 05 on his backhand that had just been released on 1 April 2019.[13] Butterfly announced its signing of Fan Zhendong on November 1, 2021.[14]
Career
2013
On January 3, 2013, the Chinese table tennis team went straight to Paris for the first time
Fan In the first stage of the competition, Fan who was only 16 years old, defeated many famous players and won an unexpected second place, thus becoming the biggest dark horse. From January 15th to 19th, in the second stage of the Chinese men's table tennis selection that went directly to Paris, Fan Zhendong finally achieved eighth place.
2014
On March 22, in the men's singles final of the Asian Cup Table Tennis Tournament, he lost to Ma Long 3:4 and won the runner-up.
On May 5, the 52nd Team World Table Tennis Championships kicked off the men's team finals in Tokyo, Japan. In the end, the Chinese team defeated its opponent with a big score of 3-1 and won the men's team championship of this World Table Tennis Championships. Fan Zhendong also became the world champion by virtue of this competition, and won the world championship at the age of 17 years and 103 days, surpassing Ma Long who won the world championship at the age of 17 years and 8 months, becoming the youngest world champion in the history of men's table tennis .
2015
In January, he won the Dubai World Cup men's team championship with Zhang Jike, Ma Long, Xu Xin and Fang Bo[5]. On July 28, 2015, in the 13th round of the Table Tennis Super League men's competition, 18-year-old Fan Zhendong of the Bayi Team won another victory this round. So far, his personal winning rate is still 100%. Winning 24 games, Fan Zhendong broke the table tennis Super League record of 23 games won by Ma Long in 2012.
2016
In June, Fan Zhendong won the men's singles championship at the ITTF Tour Japan Open. It is worth mentioning that in the quarter-finals with French player Simon Gautz, Fan Zhendong hit a "magic save". This "magic save" not only made Fan Zhendong's popularity soar, but also won the title of "Best Score of the Year" at the ITTF awards ceremony at the end of the year.
2017
On March 8, in the final round of the World Table Tennis Championships in Dusseldorf held in Shenzhen, Fan Zhendong defeated Xu Xin 2-0, ranking first with 9 wins and 2 losses, and won the first Dusseldorf title. For tickets to the Seldorf World Table Tennis Championships, Malone, who also has 9 wins and 2 losses, can only be ranked second (because Fan Zhendong won the previous match against Malone). On April 12, he won the men's team championship at the Asian Table Tennis Championships.
2018
In the early morning of January 22, 2018, the Hungarian Open, the first ITTF tournament in 2018, decided on four championships, all of which were won by China Table Tennis Federation. Fan Zhendong defeated another Chinese player Wang Chuqin 4-1 in the men's singles final and won the championship;
2019
On March 3, 2019, Fan Zhendong won all 11 matches in the 2019 Direct Tournament and received the qualification for singles participation in the 2019 World Table Tennis Championships in Budapest and a high cash reward of 1 million.
2020
On November 15, 2020, he defeated Ma Long 4-3 in the men's singles final of the 2020 Men's Table Tennis World Cup and won the championship for the fourth time. On November 22, in the men's singles final of the 2020 ITTF Finals, Fan Zhendong lost to Ma Long 1-4 and won the runner-up.
2021
In May, Fan played in the Chinese Olympic Scrimmages. He won all his group matches 3–0 and defeated 16-year-old break-out star Lin Shidong, who defeated Xu Xin in the group stage,[15] 4–2 in the quarter-finals.[16] Because of Lin's similarity to Fan, he received the nickname "Little Little Fatty" by Chinese netizens. Fan defeated Wang Chuqin in the semi-finals, but lost to the dark horse champion Zhou Qihao in the finals.[17] Fan was selected alongside Ma Long to represent China in the men's singles event at the Tokyo Olympics.[18] Fan won the second leg of the Chinese Olympic Scrimmage, coming back from down 8–4 and 3–1 in games to defeat Xu Xin in the finals.[19] Fan noted that his selection onto the Olympic team helped him focus better on his training and play better in the second leg compared to the first leg.[20] Zhou again upset Fan in a closed-door scrimmage in June.[21]
Although Ma Long called Fan the favorite before their Olympic finals match-up, Ma ended up upsetting Fan 4-2 in the Olympic finals, giving Ma the gold medal and Fan the silver. Despite the loss, Fan Zhendong still showed class, acknowledging Ma Long's control of the match and recognizing his own missed opportunities. When asked about Ma Long's place in history, Fan acknowledged that he is the greatest in their generation.[22]
In September, Fan saved six match points to beat Ma Long deuce in the fifth in the finals of the team event at the China National Games.[23] Fan's win over Ma delivered Team Guangdong the gold medal. Fan Zhendong also won the gold in the men's singles event.[24]
Achievements
Performance timeline
W | F | SF | QF | #R |
(W) won; (F) finalist; (SF) semi-finalist; (QF) quarter-finalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1
(S) singles event; (MD) men's doubles event; (XD) mixed doubles event; (T) team event
Tournament | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | |
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World Championships | S | 3R | SF | F | 4R | W | W | |||||
MD | F | W | QF | W | ||||||||
XD | SF | |||||||||||
T | W | W | W | W | ||||||||
Olympic Games | S | F | ||||||||||
T | W | |||||||||||
WTT Cup Finals | S | W | QF | |||||||||
World Cup | S | F | W | W | W | W | ||||||
T | W | W | W | |||||||||
Asian Games | S | F | W | F | ||||||||
MD | F | W | ||||||||||
T | W | W | W | |||||||||
Asian Championships | S | QF | W | W | SF | F | ||||||
MD | W | W | F | W | ||||||||
XD | SF | W | ||||||||||
T | W | W | W | W | W | |||||||
Asian Cup | S | F | F | F | W | W | ||||||
Year-end ranking | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | |
5 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
Men's singles
Result | Year | Tournament | Opponent | Score | Ref |
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Winner | 2013 | East Asian Games | Yan An | 3–0 | [25] |
Winner | 2013 | ITTF World Tour, Polish Open | Zhou Yu | 4–2 | [26] |
Winner | 2013 | ITTF World Tour, German Open | Dimitrij Ovtcharov | 4–1 | [27] |
Runner-up | 2013 | ITTF World Tour, Swedish Open | Yan An | 2–4 | [28] |
Winner | 2014 | ITTF World Tour, Kuwait Open | Yan An | 4–1 | [29] |
Runner-up | 2014 | Asian Cup | Ma Long | 3–4 | [30] |
Runner-up | 2014 | Asian Games | Xu Xin | 2–4 | [31] |
Winner | 2014 | ITTF World Tour, Swedish Open | Fang Bo | 4–2 | [32] |
Runner-up | 2015 | Asian Cup | Xu Xin | 3–4 | [33] |
Winner | 2015 | Asian Championships | Xu Xin | 4–3 | [34] |
Runner-up | 2015 | World Cup | Ma Long | 0–4 | [35] |
Winner | 2015 | ITTF World Tour, Polish Open | Stefan Fegerl | 4–3 | [36] |
Winner | 2015 | ITTF World Tour, Swedish Open | Xu Xin | 4–2 | [37] |
Runner-up | 2015 | ITTF World Tour Grand Finals | Ma Long | 3–4 | [38] |
Runner-up | 2016 | ITTF World Tour, Qatar Open | Ma Long | 1–4 | [39] |
Runner-up | 2016 | ITTF Asian Olympic Qualification Tournament | Ma Long | 1–4 | [40] |
Winner | 2016 | ITTF World Tour, Japan Open | Xu Xin | 4–1 | [41] |
Winner | 2016 | ITTF World Tour, China Open | Ma Long | 4–0 | [42] |
Winner | 2016 | World Cup | Xu Xin | 4–1 | [43] |
Runner-up | 2016 | ITTF World Tour Grand Finals | Ma Long | 2–4 | [44] |
Runner-up | 2017 | ITTF World Tour, Qatar Open | Ma Long | 2–4 | [45] |
Winner | 2017 | Asian Championships | Jeong Sang-eun | 3–0 | [46] |
Runner-up | 2017 | World Championships | Ma Long | 3–4 | [47] |
Runner-up | 2017 | ITTF World Tour, Japan Open | Ma Long | 1–4 | [48] |
Runner-up | 2017 | Asian Cup | Lin Gaoyuan | 2–4 | [49] |
Runner-up | 2017 | ITTF World Tour, Swedish Open | Xu Xin | 1–4 | [50] |
Winner | 2017 | ITTF World Tour Grand Finals | Dimitrij Ovtcharov | 4–0 | [51] |
Winner | 2018 | ITTF World Tour, Hungarian Open | Wang Chuqin | 4–1 | [52] |
Winner | 2018 | ITTF World Tour, Qatar Open | Hugo Calderano | 4–0 | [53] |
Winner | 2018 | Asian Cup | Lin Gaoyuan | 4–0 | [54] |
Runner-up | 2018 | ITTF World Tour, China Open | Ma Long | 1–4 | [55] |
Winner | 2018 | Asian Games | Lin Gaoyuan | 4–2 | [56] |
Winner | 2018 | World Cup | Timo Boll | 4–1 | [57] |
Winner | 2018 | ITTF World Tour, Swedish Open | Xu Xin | 4–1 | [58] |
Winner | 2019 | Asian Cup | Ma Long | 4–2 | [59] |
Runner-up | 2019 | T2 Diamond Malaysia | Lin Yun-ju | 1–4 | [60] |
Winner | 2019 | ITTF World Tour Platinum, German Open | Xu Xin | 4–1 | [61] |
Winner | 2019 | ITTF World Tour Platinum, Austrian Open | Zhao Zihao | 4–0 | [62] |
Winner | 2019 | World Cup | Tomokazu Harimoto | 4–2 | [63] |
Winner | 2019 | ITTF World Tour Grand Finals | Ma Long | 4–1 | [64] |
Winner | 2020 | ITTF World Tour Platinum, Qatar Open | Liam Pitchford | 4–2 | [65] |
Winner | 2020 | World Cup | Ma Long | 4–3 | [66] |
Runner-up | 2020 | ITTF Finals | Ma Long | 1–4 | [67] |
Runner-up | 2021 | Olympic Games | Ma Long | 2–4 | [68] |
Winner | 2021 | World Championships | Truls Möregårdh | 4–0 | [69] |
Winner | 2021 | WTT Cup Finals | Tomokazu Harimoto | 4–1 | [70] |
Winner | 2022 | Singapore Smash | Ma Long | 4–3 | [71] |
Runner-up | 2022 | WTT Champions Macao | Wang Chuqin | 3–4 | [72] |
Winner | 2023 | Singapore Smash | Ma Long | 4–1 | [73] |
Winner | 2023 | WTT Champions Xinxiang | Liang Jingkun | 4–1 | [74] |
Winner | 2023 | World Championships | Wang Chuqin | 4–2 | [75] |
Runner-up | 2023 | WTT Contender Zagreb | Lin Gaoyuan | 3–4 | [76] |
Winner | 2023 | WTT Star Contender Ljubljana | Wang Chuqin | 4–3 | [77] |
Runner-up | 2023 | Asian Championships | Ma Long | 2–3 | [78] |
Runner-up | 2023 | Asian Games | Wang Chuqin | 3–4 | [79] |
Men's doubles
Result | Year | Tournament | Partner | Opponents | Score | Ref |
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Winner | 2014 | ITTF World Tour, China Open | Ma Long | Xu Xin / Zhang Jike | 3–2 | [80] |
Runner-up | 2014 | Asian Games | Xu Xin | Ma Long / Zhang Jike | 0–4 | [81] |
Runner-up | 2014 | ITTF World Tour, Swedish Open | Xu Xin | Wang Hao / Yan An | 2–3 | [82] |
Runner-up | 2015 | World Championships | Zhou Yu | Xu Xin / Zhang Jike | 2–4 | [83] |
Runner-up | 2015 | ITTF World Tour, Japan Open | Shang Kun | Ma Long / Xu Xin | 2–3 | [84] |
Winner | 2015 | ITTF World Tour, China Open | Xu Xin | Fang Bo / Zhu Linfeng | 3–2 | [85] |
Winner | 2015 | Asian Championships | Xu Xin | Jeoung Young-sik / Lee Sang-su | 4–0 | [86] |
Runner-up | 2015 | ITTF World Tour, Swedish Open | Zhang Jike | Fang Bo / Xu Xin | 1–3 | [87] |
Winner | 2016 | ITTF World Tour, Qatar Open | Zhang Jike | Koki Niwa / Maharu Yoshimura | 3–0 | [88] |
Runner-up | 2016 | ITTF World Tour, China Open | Xu Xin | Ma Long / Zhang Jike | 2–3 | [89] |
Winner | 2017 | Asian Championships | Lin Gaoyuan | Fang Bo / Zhou Yu | 3–1 | [90] |
Winner | 2017 | World Championships | Xu Xin | Masataka Morizono / Yuya Oshima | 4–1 | [91] |
Winner | 2017 | ITTF World Tour, Swedish Open | Xu Xin | Ho Kwan-kit / Wong Chun-ting | 3–1 | [92] |
Winner | 2018 | ITTF World Tour, Hungarian Open | Yu Ziyang | Pavel Platonov / Vladimir Samsonov | 3–0 | [93] |
Winner | 2018 | ITTF World Tour, Qatar Open | Xu Xin | Jun Mizutani / Yuya Oshima | 3–1 | [94] |
Winner | 2018 | ITTF World Tour, China Open | Lin Gaoyuan | Ovidiu Ionescu / Álvaro Robles | 3–0 | [95] |
Runner-up | 2019 | ITTF World Tour, Hungarian Open | Lin Gaoyuan | Liang Jingkun / Xu Xin | 2–3 | [96] |
Winner | 2019 | ITTF World Tour Platinum, Japan Open | Xu Xin | Benedikt Duda / Dang Qiu | 3–0 | [97] |
Winner | 2019 | ITTF World Tour, Korea Open | Xu Xin | Jeoung Young-sik / Lee Sang-su | 3–0 | [98] |
Runner-up | 2019 | Asian Championships | Xu Xin | Liang Jingkun / Lin Gaoyuan | 1–3 | [99] |
Winner | 2019 | ITTF World Tour, Swedish Open | Xu Xin | Liang Jingkun / Lin Gaoyuan | 3–2 | [100] |
Winner | 2019 | ITTF World Tour Grand Finals | Xu Xin | Liao Cheng-ting / Lin Yun-ju | 3–1 | [101] |
Winner | 2022 | Singapore Smash | Wang Chuqin | Yukiya Uda / Shunsuke Togami | 3–1 | [102] |
Winner | 2023 | Singapore Smash | Wang Chuqin | Jang Woo-jin / Lim Jong-hoon | 3–1 | [103] |
Winner | 2023 | World Championships | Wang Chuqin | Jang Woo-jin / Lim Jong-hoon | 3–0 | [104] |
Winner | 2023 | Asian Championships | Lin Gaoyuan | Ma Long / Wang Chuqin | 3–2 | [78] |
Winner | 2023 | Asian Games | Wang Chuqin | Jang Woo-jin / Lim Jong-hoon | 4–0 | [105] |
Mixed doubles
Result | Year | Tournament | Partner | Opponents | Score | Ref |
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Winner | 2015 | Asian Championships | Chen Meng | Yang Zi / Yu Mengyu | 4–0 | [106] |
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