Wang Chuqin is a Chinese Professional table tennis player who is a master of his sport at only nineteen years old. Over the course of his career, he’s won 315 out of 377 matches—approximately 84 percent. Apart from an instance which saw him face a three-month suspension, he has always remained calm, assured and focused in matches, a factor which has led to so many of his wins.
Chuqin was a winner at the 2017 Asian Junior & Cadet Championships in Asan, Korea, at the 2017 ITTF Junior Circuit Golden Chia Junior and Cadet Open in Taicang, China and at the 2019 ITTF World Tour Open in Sweden. He won Gold in the men’s singles and mixed team events at the 2018 Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires, beating out Japan’s Tomokazu Harimoto in the singles event. He won Gold in the Team and Doubles events at both the 2018 and the 2019 World Championships in Halmstad and Budapest. He and partner Ma Long placed first at the 2019 World Table Tennis Championships in Budapest and 2nd at the 2019 ITTF World Tour Platinum Chinese Open in Shenzhen. One of his most recent and impressive feats is beating Long, one of the sport’s greatest players of all time, in the men’s singles event at the 2020 ITTF World Tour Platinum China Open. Building a name for himself at incredible speed, Chuqin will be playing for Team China at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.