Recently, the ITTF World Ranking Working Group conducted an online exchange discussion, Li Xiaoxia was invited to participate, and she appeared in an international organization for the first time in a new capacity. Following Xu Xin's successful election as the vice chairman of the Asian Table Tennis Alliance last year, Li Xiaoxia held an important position in an international organization this time, which once again reflects the great importance that the Chinese Table Tennis Association attaches to international exchanges.
The ITTF World Ranking Working Group was approved by the 2021 ITTF Annual Congress and its main work covers reviewing the policies of the world ranking system, providing athletes with a fair opportunity to improve their world rankings, and providing professional advice to the ITTF Executive Committee. Li Xiaoxia was recommended by the Chinese Table Tennis Association and approved by the Executive Committee of the International Table Tennis Federation to become a full member of the group as an expert representative, which undoubtedly means that the influence of Chinese table tennis in the international arena has been further enhanced.
Li Xiaoxia was born in Anshan City, Liaoning Province in 1988, when she was a child, she did not show the top table tennis talent, at the age of 9, she left home alone to join the Shandong team in Jinan, and since then she has continued to make progress, at the age of 13, Li Xiaoxia finally knocked on the door of the national team. Although the sharp edge has always been overshadowed by Guo Yue of the same team, she still won the women's singles and women's doubles championships at the National Table Tennis Championships at the age of 14, becoming the youngest table tennis women's singles national champion at that time. However, no World Series winner became her hard wound, leading to her losing the World Table Tennis Championships in Paris in 2003. Such a result has hit Li Xiaoxia, who has always believed that "pay is rewarded", and psychological fluctuations have also affected her physical state and competitive state. Until 2005, Li Xiaoxia, who finally adjusted her body and mind, began to make a series of achievements, not only in the civil war, but also in the foreign war. According to statistics, in 2008, Li Xiaoxia won more than 20 championships in less than 4 years, which can be said to be soft on winning awards. Especially in the 2007 World Table Tennis Championships in Zagreb, Li Xiaoxia defeated the elder sister Wang Nan in a historic way and became the successor of the leading figure of the national table tennis women's team. After experiencing setbacks in missing out on the Beijing Olympic Games, Li Xiaoxia's technical skills steadily improved in 2009 and 2010. She began her ambition to launch an assault on the London 2012 Olympics. At the same time, Wang Nan and Zhang Yining have also retired one after another, and Li Xiaoxia has gradually taken over the leadership responsibility.
However, in the finals of the 2011 Rotterdam World Table Tennis Championships and the Singapore World Cup, Li Xiaoxia lost twice to Ding Ning, who was in excellent shape, and these two defeats made Li Xiaoxia particularly depressed. Fortunately, after Li Xiaoxia finished fighting with herself, she finally crossed this "hurdle". In the Olympic women's singles final, when Li Xiaoxia defeated Ding Ning 4:1, with a gold medal on her chest and flowers in her hand, she had completed one of the most important transformations in her career. After this battle, Li Xiaoxia can be described as "a light boat has passed through ten thousand heavy mountains". At the World Table Tennis Championships in Paris in May 2013, Li Xiaoxia defeated Liu Shiwen 4:2 in the final, becoming the fourth women's table tennis Grand Slam winner after Deng Yaping, Wang Nan and Zhang Yining. Four months later, she won the women's singles gold medal at the 12th National Games. At this point, the 25-year-old Li Xiaoxia has become a women's table tennis grand slam winner who combines olympic games, world table tennis championships, world cups, itttennis federation tour finals, Asian Games, and national games singles gold medals.
After 18 years of repeated hardening and winning all the championships at home and abroad, Li Xiaoxia finally stood at the peak of her career. On December 28, 2013, the Chinese table tennis team elected Li Xiaoxia as the new captain of the women's team by secret ballot, which also marked the recognition of her "first person" in women's table tennis. After another Olympic cycle of battling injuries and winning the silver medal in the women's singles at the Rio Olympics, Li Xiaoxia chose to retire. In March this year, people saw her figure again in a nucleic acid sampling work of all employees in Shenyang, but at that time, Li Xiaoxia was already wearing a full protective suit and became a volunteer involved in the fight against the epidemic. Nowadays, Li Xiaoxia has ushered in new jobs and new challenges, and in the future, the Chinese Table Tennis Association will strive to send more outstanding athletes with rich professional experience in table tennis, a good reputation in the world table tennis arena and strong communication skills to join international organizations and further enhance their international discourse power.