Ariel Hsing
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Hsing at the Berkshire Hathaway Shareholder's Weekend, 2018 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Ariel Yenhua Hsing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | American | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | November 29, 1995 Fremont, California, U.S. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 5 in (165 cm) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 117 lb (53 kg) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Playing style | Shakehand | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Highest ranking | 73 (October 2012) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Jinhua Bank (China) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 邢延華 | ||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 邢延华 | ||||||||
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Ariel Yenhua Hsing (born November 29, 1995) is an American table tennis player who competed in the 2012 Summer Olympics.
Hsing became the youngest U.S. table tennis national champion in history in 2010 at age 15. She repeated as champion in 2011 and 2013. She is the first player from North America to win the Intercontinental Cup in 2012 with participants from Africa, Latin America, North America, and Oceania.
She was a bronze medalist in women's team and women's singles at the 2011 Pan American Games. Hsing was the women's singles champion at the North American Championships in the year 2013, and at the North America Cup in the year 2011 and 2012. During her junior career, she was ranked as high as 4th in the world in both the cadet (U-15) and the junior (U-18) age group.
In May 2014, she became the first American-born player in the China Table Tennis Super League, signing a contract with Zhejiang Jinhua Bank.