Ge Xinai

Ge Xinai - formerly Ke Hsin -Ai (Chinese葛 新 爱; * 1953 ) is a former Chinese table tennis player with the biggest successes in the 1970s. At the World Championships she won a title five times.

Ge Xinai played in the penholder style. She took her bat on one side with a thin sponge lining up with added long pimples. On the other hand, a bat of the same color "normal" sponge pad was applied. Depending on which side she used was a different spin. Often, they turned the club so that the trajectory of the ball was difficult for opponents to calculate.

She took part in the World Championships in 1975, 1977 and 1979. They took each time with the Chinese women's team gold medal. The semi-finals they came in 1975 and 1977 in single and double in 1977 with Zhang Li, she was the most successful at the 1979 World Cup, when she became World Champion in singles and mixed doubles and doubles reaching the final. In single- defeating in the final song Li Suk from North Korea. The Mixed with Liang Geliang sat down in the final against the Chinese Li Zhenshi / Yan Guili by. Only in the double with Li Zhenshi they lost the final to the Chinese women Zhang Deying / Zhang Li

In the ITTF World Ranking was in 1979 and 1980 led to square one. In June 1981, she was no longer represented in the world rankings.

2003 Ge Xinai was included in the ITTF Hall of Fame.

Results from the ITTF database

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