Deng Yaping is a Chinese table tennis player, who won eighteen world championships including four Olympic championships between 1989 and 1997. She is regarded as one of the greatest players in the history of the sport.
Mouma Das is an Indian table tennis player. Born and brought up in Kolkata, West Bengal, she has represented India in international events since the early 2000s. Das has won multiple medals at the Commonwealth Games including a gold in the Women's Team Competition in 2018. She was awarded the Arjuna Award, India's second highest sporting honour in 2013 for her contributions to the sport.
The World Table Tennis Championships are table tennis competitions sanctioned by the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF). The World Championships have been held since 1926, biennially since 1957. Five individual events, which include men's singles, women's singles, men's doubles, women's double and mixed doubles, are currently held in odd numbered years. The World Team Table Tennis Championships, which include men's team and women's team events, were first their own competition in 2000. The Team Championships are held in even numbered years.
Ni Xia Lian is a Chinese-born table tennis player who represents Luxembourg since 1991. She was born in Shanghai, and resides in Ettelbruck.
Li Bun-hui is a former table tennis player from North Korea who competed in the 1992 Summer Olympics.
The WTA Tour is the elite tour for professional women's tennis organised by the Women's Tennis Association (WTA). The 1989 WTA Tour included the four Grand Slam tournaments, the WTA Tour Championships and the WTA Category 1-5 events. ITF tournaments are not part of the WTA Tour, although they award points for the WTA World Ranking.
Otilia Bădescu, born 31 October 1970 in Bucharest, Romania, is a former Romanian table tennis player.
Rong Guotuan was a Chinese table tennis player. He won the men's singles title at the 1959 World Table Tennis Championships in Dortmund, the first world championship winner representing the People's Republic of China. During the Cultural Revolution, Rong was persecuted as a "spy suspect". He committed suicide on June 20, 1968.
Věra Votrubcová is a former female international table tennis player from Czechoslovakia.
Ilona Uhlíková-Voštová is a female former international table tennis player from Czechoslovakia.
Vlasta Depetrisová was a female international table tennis player from Czechoslovakia.
The 2013 World Table Tennis Championships were held at the Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy in Paris, France, from May 13 to May 20, 2013. The Championships were the 52nd edition of the World Table Tennis Championships.
Huang Junqun is a former international table tennis player from China.
Zheng Minzhi also known as Cheng Min-chih is a former international table tennis player from China.
Elizabeth Blackbourn is a former female international table tennis player from England.
Yoshiko Tanaka is a former international table tennis player from Japan.
Kiiko Watanabe is a former international table tennis player from Japan.
Noriko Yamanaka is a former international table tennis player from Japan.
Gertrude 'Trude' Wildam was a female Austrian international table tennis player.
Park Mi-ra is a female South Korean former international table tennis player.
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Otilia Bădescu 
Kyoko Uchiyama 
Ri Pun-hui 
Daniela Guergueltcheva 
Hyun Jung-hwa 
Alena Šafářová 
Xiaoming Wang-Dréchou