Taiwanese table tennis player
| Lin Yun-Ju |
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| Native name | 林昀儒 |
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| Nickname(s) | The Silent Assassin[1][2] |
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| Born | (2001-08-17) 17 August 2001 (age 22)
Yuanshan, Taiwan |
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| Height | 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)[3] |
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| Playing style | Left-handed shakehand grip |
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| Equipment(s) | Butterfly Lin Yun-Ju SZLC with tenergy 05 hard on forehand and dignics 05 on backhand |
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| Highest ranking | 5 (3 August 2021)[4] |
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| Current ranking | 8 (20 February 2024) |
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| Club | Kinoshita Meister Tokyo (T.League)[5] |
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Lin Yun-Ju (Chinese: 林昀儒; pinyin: Lín Yún rú born 17 August 2001) is a Taiwanese table tennis player.[6][7] He is a left-handed player who plays with the shakehand grip.
Career
Lin started playing table tennis as a third grader.[9] At age 14, he officially became a member of the national team at the 2016 World Team Championships, the youngest Taiwanese player to do so.
2019
Lin started competing in the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) senior circuit in 2016.[10] He won two major tournaments in a row in 2019, first the T2 Diamond Malaysia in July,[11] followed in August by his first ITTF World Tour title, the Czech Open at the age of only 18.[12] In these tournaments, he had beaten some of the top players, including Ma Long, Fan Zhendong, Dimitrij Ovtcharov and Timo Boll.[13]
2021
Lin trained in China along with members of the Chinese national team and other selected foreigners from late 2020 until early 2021.[14] His first international event was WTT Contender at World Table Tennis' inaugural event WTT Doha, where he reached the finals after defeating Quadri Aruna in the quarter-finals and Simon Gauzy in the semi-finals[15] before being upset by Dimitrij Ovtcharov in the finals.[16] In the WTT Star Contender event, Lin suffered a quarter-final upset against Ruwen Filus.[17] However, Lin walked out of Doha with control of the fourth seed for the men's singles event at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.[18] In April, ITTF amended the Olympic seeding system so that Lin fell back to the fifth seed below Hugo Calderano.[19]
Lin placed fourth at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics after losing to Dimitrij Ovtcharov in the bronze-medal match.[20] Lin defeated Ovtcharov in the team event later, but Taiwan ultimately fell to Germany 3–2 in the quarter-finals.[21]
