Sunday, February 22, 2009
7:34 AM
World Table Tennis Championships - Singapore sending her Largest Contingent in history
Singapore will be sending a eleven strong contingent to the upcoming World Individual Table Tennis Championships which will be held in Yokohama, Japan.

Our Men's Team will comprises of China-borned Gao Ning, Yang Zi, Cai Xiao Li and the young and potential Pang Xue Jie, while the female team will consists of 3 time Olympian Li Jia Wei, Feng Tianwei, Wang Yue Gu, Sun Bei Bei, Yu Meng Yu and 2 local borned teenagers Sim Kai Xin Zena and Li Siyun Isabelle.

Feng Tianwei is targeting for a Semi-Final finish to clinch a Bronze Medal, while Li Jia Wei feels that she has a chance in the Singles as well if she is in good form. Li is currently still recovering from her knee injury. This event will be good exposure for our young paddler, especially Li Siyun Isabelle, who is likely to represent Singapore in the Asain Youth Games this year and Youth Olympics next year.

Our paddlers will be competing in the Indian and German Pro Tour Open before departing for a month long centralised training in China in preparation for this event.

The best our paddlers have done so far in this event is in 2007 where Li Jia Wei partnered Wang Yue Gu to win the Bronze Medal in the Women's Doubles Event.




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