Lin Yun-ju
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Native name | 林昀儒 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nickname(s) | The Silent Assassin[1][2] , Little Lin Classmate (小林同學) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Yuanshan, Taiwan | 17 August 2001||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)[3] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Playing style | Left-handed shakehand grip | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Equipment(s) | Butterfly Lin Yun-Ju SZLC with tenergy 05 hard on forehand and dignics 05 on backhand | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Highest ranking | 5 (3 August 2021)[4] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Current ranking | 7 (12 August 2024) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Kinoshita Meister Tokyo (T.League)[5] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Lin Yun-Ju (Chinese: 林昀儒; pinyin: Lín Yún rú born 17 August 2001) is a Taiwanese table tennis player.[6][7] He is a left-handed player who plays with the shakehand grip.
Personal life
[edit]Lin was born in Yuanshan, Yilan County, Taiwan. He graduated from Taipei Municipal Nei-Hu Vocational High School and is currently studying at Fu Jen Catholic University.[8]
Career
[edit]Lin started playing table tennis as a third grader.[9] At age 14, he officially became a member of the national team at the 2016 World Team Championships, the youngest Taiwanese player to do so.
2019
[edit]Lin started competing in the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) senior circuit in 2016.[10] He won two major tournaments in a row in 2019, first the T2 Diamond Malaysia in July,[11] followed in August by his first ITTF World Tour title, the Czech Open at the age of only 18.[12] In these tournaments, he had beaten some of the top players, including Ma Long, Fan Zhendong, Dimitrij Ovtcharov and Timo Boll.[13]
2021
[edit]Lin trained in China along with members of the Chinese national team and other selected foreigners from late 2020 until early 2021.[14] His first international event was WTT Contender at World Table Tennis' inaugural event WTT Doha, where he reached the finals after defeating Quadri Aruna in the quarter-finals and Simon Gauzy in the semi-finals[15] before being upset by Dimitrij Ovtcharov in the finals.[16] In the WTT Star Contender event, Lin suffered a quarter-final upset against Ruwen Filus.[17] However, Lin walked out of Doha with control of the fourth seed for the men's singles event at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.[18] In April, ITTF amended the Olympic seeding system so that Lin fell back to the fifth seed below Hugo Calderano.[19]
Lin placed fourth at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics after losing to Dimitrij Ovtcharov in the bronze-medal match.[20] Lin defeated Ovtcharov in the team event later, but Taiwan ultimately fell to Germany 3–2 in the quarter-finals.[21]
2023
[edit]Lin participated in WTT Frankfurt, and beat Ma Long in the finals, thus winning a WTT Champions title, and stopping Ma Long from getting his first WTT Champions title.
2024
[edit]Lin played in the team world championships in 2024. The Chinese Taipei team performed better than expected. In the quarterfinals, they managed to surprise Germany, sweeping them 3-0. But after that, they fell short to France and lost. With this result, Chinese Taipei has qualified for the 2024 Summer Olympics as a team.
Achievements
[edit]Major tournaments
[edit]Tournaments | Events | |||
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Singles | Men's doubles |
Mixed doubles |
Team | |
Olympic Games | 4th | — | 3rd | Quarterfinals |
World Championships | Last 16 | Last 16 | Semifinals | Semifinals |
World Cup | 3rd | — | — | Semifinals |
Singles titles
[edit]Year | Tournament | Final opponent | Score | Ref |
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2019 | ITTF Challenge Plus, Oman Open | ![]() |
4–2 | [22] |
T2 Diamond Malaysia | ![]() |
4–1 | [23] | |
ITTF World Tour, Czech Open | ![]() |
4–1 | [24] | |
2022 | WTT Contender Zagreb | ![]() |
4–0 | [25] |
2023 | WTT Contender Almaty | ![]() |
4–1 | [26] |
WTT Champions Frankfurt | ![]() |
4–1 | [27] |
References
[edit]- ^ "Final Day: 2019 Chengdu Airlines Men's World Cup ( the silent assassin Lin Yun-Ju)". ITTF. 3 December 2019.
- ^ "Who Will Rule in Seamaster T2 Diamond 2019 Singapore? ( the silent assassin Lin Yun-Ju)". T2 Diamond Table Tennis League.
- ^ "リン ユンジュ Lin Yun-Ju". tleague.jp (in Japanese). Retrieved 12 June 2023.
- ^ "Ranking History". results.ittf.link. Retrieved 3 September 2023.
- ^ "Lin Yun Ju". tleague.jp. Retrieved 3 September 2023.
- ^ Table Tennis LIN Yun Ju – Tokyo 2020 Olympics Archived 30 July 2021 at the Wayback Machine Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Retrieved 30 July 2021.
- ^ "Is Lin Yun-Ju the real deal?". International Table Tennis Federation. 24 July 2019.
- ^ "賀!!本校體碩二鄭怡靜、體大一林昀儒同學桌球混雙取得2020東京奧運門票". Fu Jen Catholic University (in Chinese). 13 December 2019.
- ^ Su, Lynn (November 2021). "Table Tennis Prodigy Lin Yun-ju Lets His Paddle Do the Talking". Taiwan Panorama. Retrieved 24 February 2024.
- ^ "Player profile". ittf.com. Retrieved 19 September 2022.
- ^ Marshall, Ian (21 July 2019). "T2 Diamond: Lin Yun-Ju and Zhu Yuling win in Malaysia". International Table Tennis Federation.
- ^ "Taiwan table tennis phenom Lin Yun-ju wins Czech Open". Taiwan Today. 28 August 2019.
- ^ Chia, Nicole (20 November 2019). "Table tennis: Teen prodigy Lin Yun-ju lets his bat do the talking". The Straits Times.
- ^ "WTT Doha 2021 Preview Part 3: Women's Singles seeds 5 To 8". edgesandnets.com. 14 February 2021. Retrieved 25 February 2021.
- ^ "Lin Yun-Ju Staves Off Quadri Aruna Comeback On Path To WTT Contender Finals". edgesandnets.com. 5 March 2021. Retrieved 6 March 2021.
- ^ "How Dimitrij Ovtcharov Solved The Lin Yun-Ju Problem at WTT Doha". edgesandnets.com. 25 March 2021. Retrieved 25 March 2021.
- ^ "6 Ruwen Filus Shots To Watch Out For in the WTT Doha Finals". edgesandnets.com. 12 March 2021. Retrieved 12 March 2021.
- ^ "Feng Tianwei Was The Biggest Winner at WTT Doha – Edges and Nets". edgesandnets.com. 17 March 2021. Retrieved 17 March 2021.
- ^ "World Table Tennis News Roundup – 04/19/21 – Edges and Nets". edgesandnets.com. 19 April 2021. Retrieved 19 April 2021.
- ^ "Ma Long Defeats Fan Zhendong to Win Olympic Gold". edgesandnets.com. 30 July 2021. Retrieved 31 July 2021.
- ^ "Olympic Table Tennis Team Quarterfinal Round-Up". edgesandnets.com. 3 August 2021. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
- ^ "Oman Highlights Final Day: talent shines through". ittf.com. 24 March 2019. Retrieved 19 September 2022.
- ^ "T2 Diamond Malaysia". t2diamond.com. Retrieved 19 September 2022.
- ^ "2019 ITTF World Tour, Czech Open". ittf.com. Retrieved 19 September 2022.
- ^ "WTT Contender Zagreb 2022". worldtabletennis.com. Retrieved 19 September 2022.
- ^ "WTT Contender Almaty 2023". worldtabletennis.com. Retrieved 3 September 2023.
- ^ "WTT Champions Frankfurt 2023". worldtabletennis.com. Retrieved 7 November 2023.
External links
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- 2001 births
- Living people
- Asian Games medalists in table tennis
- Asian Games bronze medalists for Chinese Taipei
- Fu Jen Catholic University alumni
- Medalists at the 2018 Asian Games
- Medalists at the 2022 Asian Games
- Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Olympic bronze medalists for Taiwan
- Table tennis players at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics
- Table tennis players at the 2018 Asian Games
- Table tennis players at the 2022 Asian Games
- Table tennis players at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Chinese male table tennis players
- Olympic medalists in table tennis
- World Table Tennis Championships medalists
- Olympic table tennis players for Taiwan
- 21st-century Chinese sportspeople
- People from Yilan County, Taiwan
- Table tennis players at the 2024 Summer Olympics