There is no doubt that world snooker is still dominated by Chinese players: in the recently concluded 2022 World Team Pool Championships, both men and women won gold medals from China. To be able to represent China, you must first defeat a player vote with a world-class force. As the competition is so fierce, many Chinese players choose to transfer their nationality to give themselves more opportunities to compete in the international arena. The player Han Ying unveiled today moved to Germany for this reason and, at the age of 39, she rose to number 8 on the world rankings and ushered in the pinnacle of her career again.
Han Ying was born in Liaoning Province, China in 1983. Because her father loved billiards, he raised it to become a pool player since she was a child. Later, her father heard that the local sports school’s pool team was interested in recruiting “cutting board”. “type” players, so he invited her. She re-practices the chip game. Eventually, Han Ying not only successfully entered the sports school, but also became the representative of the Liaoning Provincial Table Team. However, if you want to enter the international arena, you must first enter the national team. However, at that time, there were so many talented Chinese pool players that Han Ying could only be a sparring partner in the second team of the national team.
In 2002, when he was 19, he had the opportunity to play in the league in Germany under the coach’s recommendation, thinking that the chances of staying in the country and joining the national team were very low, so he decided to go to Germany, to at one point he went straight back to China after the holidays and did not want to return to the team, but after a few years of adaptation his performances improved more and more and he was promoted by player no. 5 of the ace number one team.
In 2011 he obtained a German passport and officially started representing Germany on the world tour. In the 2012 World Tour Qatar Open, he reached the top 8 for the first time. Although he lost to Chinese player Chen Meng, he still made it.After many points, his world rankings rose from more than 120 to 42 after this battle and the German national team also invited her to join the team at this time.
When Han Ying was 29, when she saw that her billiard career was finally about to usher in a big breakthrough, she got pregnant at that moment.Since she wanted to give birth to a healthy baby, she decided to put her racket aside during pregnancy, and therefore lost the opportunity to join the national team. After giving birth she resumed training after resting for less than two months, in reality it was very difficult for her to return to the field because her physical strength after giving birth was very different from before her. She won the first game.
At this time, the German national team invited her again, and she finally joined the German pool team, quickly becoming the team’s number one player.In 2014, she won the first championship of her career in the 2014 World Tour Korea Open Trophy of the championship, the world ranking has also climbed into the top 20.
In 2016, at the age of 33, she represented Germany in women’s singles and women’s team competitions, although she lost to China’s Ding Ning, who won the silver medal at the previous Olympic Games in the quarter-finals. of the singles, she missed the medal, but in the women’s team competition, the German team won the medal. Beating the US and Hong Kong all the way, the top four faced off against the strong Japanese enemy team consisting of Ito Mima, Ishikawa Kasumi and Fukuhara Ai. Han Ying faced Ai Fukuhara. Eventually, after five games, she thrilled Ai Fukuhara to take Germany to the final. After the game, she was so happy that she threw her racket out. Even though she lost to the Chinese team in her final she still wins German billiards, the team’s historic silver medal.
In 2018 she collaborated with Ruwen Filus, also a German chipper, to win the European Championship in mixed doubles. In 2020 she defeated Taiwanese pool player Zheng Yijing in the top 8 of the Women’s Billiards World Cup to advance to the top 4 and eventually she won fourth place name. In 2021, Han Ying participated in the Olympic Games for the second time. At the age of 38, she did not expect to be able to climb the highest hall once again at this age. In the singles event, she also lost in the top 8. Even though she missed the medal in the team competition, she still won first place with a fourth place.
Just when everyone was wondering if Han Ying was about to retire, the 39-year-old’s performance suddenly exploded: first she won the women’s singles championship at the European Championships, and then she won the World Billiards Major League Star Challenge Duha Station. She (WTT Star Contender DOHA) she won second place in the world rankings and reached 8th place in the world to usher in the pinnacle of her career. Recently, she led the German team to beat the Hong Kong team in the top 4 in the World Team Table Tennis Championship.
Han Ying considers herself very fortunate to be able to enter the international arena and also feels that if she had not gone to Germany and had chosen to stay in China, her chances of participating in the Olympic Games would have been lower than those of winning the lottery. chosen a special path, she nevertheless became. he doesn’t dare to compare himself to his predecessors As for whether he can be like Ni Xialian When he’s 50, he’s still on the pitch, so let’s wait and see!
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