Ding Song (
ChineseA Chinese character, also known as a Han character , is a logogram used in writing Chinese , Japanese , less frequently Korean , and formerly Vietnamese , and other languages...
: 丁松;
PinyinPinyin , or more formally Hanyu Pinyin , is currently the most commonly used romanization system for Standard Mandarin. Hanyu means the Chinese language, and pinyin means "phonetics", or more literally, "spelling sound" or "spelled sound"...
: Dīng Sōng; born 1971) is a famous
ChineseChina is a cultural region, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity extending over a large area in East Asia....
table tennisTable tennis is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight, hollow ball back and forth with rackets. The game takes place on a hard table divided by a net. Except for the initial serve, players must allow a ball played toward them only one bounce on their side of the table and must...
player due to his eccentric "modern defensive" style. He is best known for defeating
Peter Karlsson__NOEDITSECTION__Peter Karlsson may refer to: -Peter:* Peter Karlsson , Swedish ice hockey player* Peter Karlsson , Swedish motorcycle speedway rider...
in the men's team final of the 1995 World Table Tennis Championships, securing China's final victory. He also made it to the men's single semifinals beforing losing to teammate
Kong LinghuiKong Linghui is a male Chinese table tennis player who competed in the 1996 Summer Olympics, in the 2000 Summer Olympics, and in the 2004 Summer Olympics....
, who is skilled in defeating defensive players.
Ding Song is distinguished from other "traditional" defensive players by his unreasonably frequent and powerful
counterattackA counterattack is a military battlefield tactic used by some or all of a defending force against their attackers. The general objective is to negate or thwart the advantage gained by the enemy in attack and the specific objectives are usually to regain lost ground or to destroy attacking enemy...
s, almost as aggressive as offensive players, although sometimes he also confuses his opponents with oddly spinning chops just like other choppers.
He retired from the Chinese team after the 1997 WTTC due to his aging physical performance, but in recent years a video of him playing against
Timo BollTimo Boll is a German professional table tennis player who plays currently with Borussia Düsseldorf and is the German No.1 on the German Table Tennis National League...
is spread widely around the internet, in which he flawlessly returns Timo Boll's offensive smashes by chopping them, the rally lasting a full 49 hits.
After playing in German leagues for a few years, Ding Song returned to China in 2003 and played in the
China Table Tennis Super League China Table Tennis Super League is the top table tennis division under the Chinese Table Tennis Association.The last finisher of the CTTSL will be relegated to the China Table Tennis Jia League A Group. The top two finishers of the Jia League A Group will have extra games with the second last...
till 2007.
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Ding Song (
ChineseA Chinese character, also known as a Han character , is a logogram used in writing Chinese , Japanese , less frequently Korean , and formerly Vietnamese , and other languages...
: 丁松;
PinyinPinyin , or more formally Hanyu Pinyin , is currently the most commonly used romanization system for Standard Mandarin. Hanyu means the Chinese language, and pinyin means "phonetics", or more literally, "spelling sound" or "spelled sound"...
: Dīng Sōng; born 1971) is a famous
ChineseChina is a cultural region, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity extending over a large area in East Asia....
table tennisTable tennis is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight, hollow ball back and forth with rackets. The game takes place on a hard table divided by a net. Except for the initial serve, players must allow a ball played toward them only one bounce on their side of the table and must...
player due to his eccentric "modern defensive" style. He is best known for defeating
Peter Karlsson__NOEDITSECTION__Peter Karlsson may refer to: -Peter:* Peter Karlsson , Swedish ice hockey player* Peter Karlsson , Swedish motorcycle speedway rider...
in the men's team final of the 1995 World Table Tennis Championships, securing China's final victory. He also made it to the men's single semifinals beforing losing to teammate
Kong LinghuiKong Linghui is a male Chinese table tennis player who competed in the 1996 Summer Olympics, in the 2000 Summer Olympics, and in the 2004 Summer Olympics....
, who is skilled in defeating defensive players.
Ding Song is distinguished from other "traditional" defensive players by his unreasonably frequent and powerful
counterattackA counterattack is a military battlefield tactic used by some or all of a defending force against their attackers. The general objective is to negate or thwart the advantage gained by the enemy in attack and the specific objectives are usually to regain lost ground or to destroy attacking enemy...
s, almost as aggressive as offensive players, although sometimes he also confuses his opponents with oddly spinning chops just like other choppers.
He retired from the Chinese team after the 1997 WTTC due to his aging physical performance, but in recent years a video of him playing against
Timo BollTimo Boll is a German professional table tennis player who plays currently with Borussia Düsseldorf and is the German No.1 on the German Table Tennis National League...
is spread widely around the internet, in which he flawlessly returns Timo Boll's offensive smashes by chopping them, the rally lasting a full 49 hits.
After playing in German leagues for a few years, Ding Song returned to China in 2003 and played in the
China Table Tennis Super League China Table Tennis Super League is the top table tennis division under the Chinese Table Tennis Association.The last finisher of the CTTSL will be relegated to the China Table Tennis Jia League A Group. The top two finishers of the Jia League A Group will have extra games with the second last...
till 2007. He also entered
Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityShanghai Jiao Tong University , located in Shanghai, is one of the oldest and most influential universities in China...
in 2006, majoring in
human resource managementHuman resource management is the strategic and coherent approach to the management of an organization's most valued assets - the people working there who individually and collectively contribute to the achievement of the objectives of the business...
. In june 2009 he received a
bachelor's degreeA bachelor's degree is usually an academic degree awarded for an undergraduate course or major that generally lasts for four years, but can range from two to six years depending on the region of the world...
, and started working in SJTU as the coach of the university's team.