Date of Birth: 31 August 1986
Place of Birth: Heilongjiang, China
Height: 1.64 m
Feng Tianwei (born is a Singaporean table tennis player, ranked sixth in the world as a singles player as of December 2008. Born in China, she began training in Singapore in March 2007 and commenced her international career in competitive table tennis the following month. She became a Singapore citizen in January 2008.
Feng represented Singapore for the first time in the Olympic Games at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. On 15 August, the Singapore team comprised of Feng and her teammates Li Jiawei and Wang Yuegu defeated South Korea 3–2 in the semifinals. The team lost to China in the final, but obtained the silver medal. This was Singapore's first Olympic medal in 48 years and its first as an independent nation. Feng won her first professional singles title at the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) Pro Tour Polish Open in Warsaw on 30 November 2008, in an all-Singapore final against Wang. In December 2008, the ITTF announced that she was ranked sixth
Career as national player
Feng made her international début for Singapore in June 2007 as an under-21 player at the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) Pro Tour Volkswagen Korean Open. As a singles player, Feng was ranked 73rd in the world in August 2007.[3] Nonetheless, that month she achieved a silver medal in the singles at the ITTF Pro Tour Chinese Taipei Open, her compatriot Li Jiawei beating her to take the gold.
Feng was a member of the silver medal-winning Singapore women's team at the World Team Championships in Guangzhou in 2008, and also defeated the top seed Zhang Yining from China in the quarter-finals of the Asian Cup held in Sapporo between 29 March and 30 March 2008, eventually achieving second place behind China's Guo Yue. She obtained singles bronze medals at the ITTF Pro Tour Chile Open in April and the Singapore Open in June 2008, and helped the women's team to a second place at the Volkswagen Japan Open in Yokohama on 24 May 2008. As of October 2008, she had worked her way up to a seventh-place ranking in the world.
On 9 September 2008, Feng beat her compatriot Wang to clinch the bronze medal at the ITTF Women's World Cup in Kuala Lumpur. Despite crashing out of the singles event earlier, Feng and her teammates Li and Wang won the top title and US$8,000 at the ITTF Pro Tour ERKE German Open in Berlin on 22 November 2008. Feng won her first professional singles title at the Polish Open in Warsaw on 30 November, in an all-Singapore final against Wang. Feng and Yu Mengyu also took silver in the doubles championship. On 2 December 2008, the ITTF announced that Feng was ranked sixth in the world. This made her the top Singapore female table tennis player and the highest-placed player in the world not representing China.[ She was third in Today newspaper's list of athletes of the year for 2008.
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