Feng Tianwei

Feng Tianwei is a Singapore table tennis player. Born in China, she moved to Singapore under the Foreign Sports Talent Scheme in March 2007 and commenced her international career in competitive table tennis the following month. She received Singapore citizenship in January 2008.

Feng Tianwei was born onAugust 1986 in Harbin, Heilongjiang, Peoples Republic of China. She is the only daughter of Feng Qingzhi, a granary worker, and his wife Li Chunping, an employee of a department store. Fengs parents, who were poor, lived frugally for years to pay for her table tennis training. Her father suffered from multiple sclerosis, but she was not told how severe his illness was. He died in 2002, weeks before Feng tried out for Chinas national B squad. Although Feng topped the qualifying matches a month later and was called up for the national team in 2003, she suffered from a long illness a source close to her said it was because she missed her father too much. Feng left China in 2005 to play in the Japanese professional league. While there she was spotted by Liu Guodong, then a coach with the Singapore Table Tennis Association, in 2006. In March 2007 she was invited to train in Singapore under the Foreign Sports Talent Scheme. She became a Singapore citizen in Januar

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