Zhou Yihan


Zhou Yihan
Personal information
Nationality Singapore
Born 30 January 1994 (1994-01-30) (age 21)
Liaoning, China
Height 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Sport
Sport Table tennis

Zhou Yihan is a table tennis player from Singapore. Born in China, she moved to Singapore in 2009. She became eligible to play for her new country in 2011.[1] She won a team gold at the 2014 Commonwealth Games and a team Bronze at the 2014 Asian Games. During the team semi-final match against Japan, she defeated Sayaka Hirano of Japan 3-2 despite ranked lower than her opponent.

On 2 June 2015, she and her compatriot, Lin Ye defeat top seed, Feng Tianwei and Yu Mengyu 4-3 to clinch the Women Doubles title in 28th Southeast Asian Games held in Singapore. The pair continues their good momentum and causes one of the biggest upset in history when they defeated the top doubles pair Ding Ning and Liu Shiwen 3-0 in ITTF World Tour, Japan Open Semi-Final but lost to another China pair of Wu Yang and Liu Fei in Final.

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