Lin Yun-ju

Lin Yun-Ju
Personal information
Native name林昀儒
Nickname(s)The Silent Assassin[1][2] , Little Lin Classmate (小林同學）
Born (2001-08-17) 17 August 2001 (age 23)
Yuanshan, Taiwan
Height1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)[3]
Table tennis career
Playing styleLeft-handed shakehand grip
Equipment(s)Butterfly Lin Yun-Ju SZLC with tenergy 05 hard on forehand and dignics 05 on backhand
Highest ranking5 (3 August 2021)[4]
Current ranking11 (8 October 2024)
ClubKinoshita Meister Tokyo (T.League)[5]
Medal record
Men's table tennis
Representing  Chinese Taipei
Olympic Games
Bronze medal – third place 2020 Tokyo Mixed doubles
World Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2021 Houston Mixed doubles
Bronze medal – third place 2024 Busan Team
World Cup
Bronze medal – third place 2019 Tokyo Team
Bronze medal – third place 2019 Chengdu Singles
Asian Games
Bronze medal – third place 2018 Jakarta Team
Bronze medal – third place 2022 Hangzhou Doubles
Bronze medal – third place 2022 Hangzhou Team
Asian Championships
Silver medal – second place 2023 Pyeongchang Team
Silver medal – second place 2024 Astana Team
Bronze medal – third place 2023 Pyeongchang Singles
Bronze medal – third place 2023 Pyeongchang Mixed doubles
Youth Olympic Games
Bronze medal – third place 2018 Buenos Aires Mixed team

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Major tournaments

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Best results in majors (Olympic Games, World Championships, World Cup)
Tournaments Events
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

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Year Tournament Final opponent Score Ref
2019 ITTF Challenge Plus, Oman Open Sweden Mattias Falck 4–2 [22]
T2 Diamond Malaysia China Fan Zhendong 4–1 [23]
ITTF World Tour, Czech Open Germany Dimitrij Ovtcharov 4–1 [24]
2022 WTT Contender Zagreb China Xiang Peng 4–0 [25]
2023 WTT Contender Almaty China Xiang Peng 4–1 [26]
WTT Champions Frankfurt China Ma Long 4–1 [27]

References

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  1. ^ "Final Day: 2019 Chengdu Airlines Men's World Cup ( the silent assassin Lin Yun-Ju)". ITTF. 3 December 2019.
  2. ^ "Who Will Rule in Seamaster T2 Diamond 2019 Singapore? ( the silent assassin Lin Yun-Ju)". T2 Diamond Table Tennis League.
  3. ^ "リン ユンジュ Lin Yun-Ju". tleague.jp (in Japanese). Retrieved 12 June 2023.
  4. ^ "Ranking History". results.ittf.link. Retrieved 3 September 2023.
  5. ^ "Lin Yun Ju". tleague.jp. Retrieved 3 September 2023.
  6. ^ Table Tennis LIN Yun Ju – Tokyo 2020 Olympics Archived 30 July 2021 at the Wayback Machine Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Retrieved 30 July 2021.
  7. ^ "Is Lin Yun-Ju the real deal?". International Table Tennis Federation. 24 July 2019.
  8. ^ "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.
  9. ^ Su, Lynn (November 2021). "Table Tennis Prodigy Lin Yun-ju Lets His Paddle Do the Talking". Taiwan Panorama. Retrieved 24 February 2024.
  10. ^ "Player profile". ittf.com. Retrieved 19 September 2022.
  11. ^ Marshall, Ian (21 July 2019). "T2 Diamond: Lin Yun-Ju and Zhu Yuling win in Malaysia". International Table Tennis Federation.
  12. ^ "Taiwan table tennis phenom Lin Yun-ju wins Czech Open". Taiwan Today. 28 August 2019.
  13. ^ Chia, Nicole (20 November 2019). "Table tennis: Teen prodigy Lin Yun-ju lets his bat do the talking". The Straits Times.
  14. ^ "WTT Doha 2021 Preview Part 3: Women's Singles seeds 5 To 8". edgesandnets.com. 14 February 2021. Retrieved 25 February 2021.
  15. ^ "Lin Yun-Ju Staves Off Quadri Aruna Comeback On Path To WTT Contender Finals". edgesandnets.com. 5 March 2021. Retrieved 6 March 2021.
  16. ^ "How Dimitrij Ovtcharov Solved The Lin Yun-Ju Problem at WTT Doha". edgesandnets.com. 25 March 2021. Retrieved 25 March 2021.
  17. ^ "6 Ruwen Filus Shots To Watch Out For in the WTT Doha Finals". edgesandnets.com. 12 March 2021. Retrieved 12 March 2021.
  18. ^ "Feng Tianwei Was The Biggest Winner at WTT Doha – Edges and Nets". edgesandnets.com. 17 March 2021. Retrieved 17 March 2021.
  19. ^ "World Table Tennis News Roundup – 04/19/21 – Edges and Nets". edgesandnets.com. 19 April 2021. Retrieved 19 April 2021.
  20. ^ "Ma Long Defeats Fan Zhendong to Win Olympic Gold". edgesandnets.com. 30 July 2021. Retrieved 31 July 2021.
  21. ^ "Olympic Table Tennis Team Quarterfinal Round-Up". edgesandnets.com. 3 August 2021. Retrieved 3 August 2021.
  22. ^ "Oman Highlights Final Day: talent shines through". ittf.com. 24 March 2019. Retrieved 19 September 2022.
  23. ^ "T2 Diamond Malaysia". t2diamond.com. Retrieved 19 September 2022.
  24. ^ "2019 ITTF World Tour, Czech Open". ittf.com. Retrieved 19 September 2022.
  25. ^ "WTT Contender Zagreb 2022". worldtabletennis.com. Retrieved 19 September 2022.
  26. ^ "WTT Contender Almaty 2023". worldtabletennis.com. Retrieved 3 September 2023.
  27. ^ "WTT Champions Frankfurt 2023". worldtabletennis.com. Retrieved 7 November 2023.
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