Zhang Xi (beach volleyball)
Zhang Xi (张 希Chinese, born April 19, 1985 in Nantong, People's Republic of China) is a Chinese beach volleyball player.
Career
Your sport career began in 1996 when Zhang Xi Tong Zhong woman volleyball team. With Zhang Yi, she played in 2001 an international beach volleyball youth tournament. With Wang Yepan Zhang Xi launched for the first time at the FIVB World Tour 2002 on Rhodes. Also just an event she contested in 2003 with Hu Xiaoyan. In the following two years, she played two tournaments with Tian Jia, seven tournaments with Ji Linjun and ten competitions with Hu Xiaoyan. With Ji 2004 with Hu in 2005, it reached ninth place as best result in each case.
In 2006 a sportswoman from Nantong for the first time with Xue Chen at. Even their second tournament of the World Series in Shanghai were the two athletes from the Middle Kingdom to win. After they had arrived in Saint Petersburg and Warsaw to the final, they managed to Phuket at the last event of the year, another victory. The next year, Xue and Zhang arrived in nine of sixteen events, the semi-finals, it was second in Montreal, Kristiansand and Hong Kong (Challenger and Satellite Tournament ) and received the bronze medal at Sentosa as well as in Warsaw and Åland. At the World Championships in Gstaad they lost both the semifinals against the eventual world champions Walsh / May- Treanor and the match for third place against the Brazilians Larissa / Juliana and were fourth.
In 2008, the Chinese women won in Seoul and Moscow, and took third place in Osaka and Gstaad. However, they reached their greatest success at the Olympic Games in the capital of their homeland. In Beijing, Xue Chen and Zhang Xi lost the semi-final against their compatriots Tian and Wang Jie, but then won the game for third place and the bronze medal against the Brazilians Talita and Renata. With her new partner Huang Ying Zhang finished fourth in her first show outing in the finale Sanya, subsequently she was honored as Most Outstanding in 2008. In the competitions in 2009, Zhang and Huang were each Ninth in Shanghai, Stavanger, Moscow and Phuket.
2010
Xue Chen and Zhang Xi, who had now again become partners, started with a seventh place in Brasília in the World Tour 2010, then they were in Shanghai and Rome Fifth, in Seoul they finished ninth. Your first win of the year they reached the Grand Slam in Moscow. After the fifth place in Stavanger, Gstaad and the bronze medal in the seventh rank in Marseille and the ninth in Klagenfurt, the Chinese women reached five times in a row in the final. They were able to win the tournaments in Åland and in Sanya, in Stare Jabłonki, Kristiansand and The Hague they were second. At the end of the year occupied the Asians in Phuket ninth place. In all fifteen competitions of the year, Xue Chen and Zhang Xi achieved top ten placings.
2011
Like last year, started the two Asians on the World Tour 2011 with a seventh place in the Brazilian capital, which she repeated at the third tournament of the year in Shanghai. More rankings among the top eight teams reach the Chinese women in Beijing, where they finished in fifth place, and in Stare Jabłonki and The Hague. There they were each fourth. Medals were won by the athletes from the Far East at the World Championships in Rome and at the Grand Slam in Moscow as well as third parties in the Sanya Open and the Grand Slam in Gstaad, and Klagenfurt. These tournaments Xue Chen and Zhang Xi lost the final. Profits they could, however, both the Åland and the Thailand Open. Like last year, reached the two Chinese in 2011 at all events a place in the top ten teams. In December Xue Chen and Zhang Xi won at the Asian Championships in Haikou.
2012
When you first open tournament in 2012 in Brasília Xue Chen and Zhang Xi celebrated their next success. In addition, they won the Grand Slam in Shanghai and Moscow. In Berlin, they were subject only in the finale. The other Grand Slams they also came in the top ten. They also qualified for the Olympic Games in London. There she achieved as a group in two of the first round, the second round and came up with two more victories in the semi-finals. This game they lost to Walsh / May- Treanor, as well as then the duel for bronze against Larissa / Juliana. She then successfully defended her title at the Asian championship.
2013
2013 won the Chinese women the first open tournament of the season in Fuzhou and were fifth in the Grand Slams in Shanghai. At the World Championships in Stare Jabłonki they had to settle for third place in their preliminary round group. Afterwards, however, they gave four times in a row from a single sentence and reached the final. By a 2-1 victory against the Germans Borger / Büthe they were the first Asian world champion, ending the winning streak of the Brazilian and U.S. teams.