Sun Yingsha (born 4 November 2000) is a Chinese professional table tennis player. She has won Olympic, World Championship, World Cup and WTT events in singles, doubles, mixed doubles and team competition, representing the People's Republic of China. She is right-handed and uses a shakehand grip. Her name is written 孙颖莎 in Chinese characters and is romanised as Sūn Yǐngshā in pinyin.
Early career
Sun was born in Shijiazhuang, Hebei. At the age of 14 she won the singles title at the national junior championships in 2015, which led national selectors to place her in the second-string national squad. She joined the senior national team in January 2017. Her senior breakthrough came in 2019, when she won the women's singles at the Asian Championships in Yogyakarta and, with Wang Manyu, the women's doubles at the World Championships in Budapest. In January 2022 she became the first player born after 2000 to reach the top of the ITTF women's world rankings. The infobox of her English Wikipedia article gives 1 February 2022 as the date of her highest ranking; the two dates differ slightly, and this entry follows the ranking-date source where they conflict.
Olympic Games
At the Olympic Games in Tokyo in 2020, Sun was the youngest Chinese table tennis Olympian since 2008, and she won silver in women's singles and gold in the team event. At the Paris 2024 Games she won gold in mixed doubles with Wang Chuqin, which was the first mixed doubles gold for the Chinese team, and gold in the women's team event. Her women's singles result was silver, after defeat by compatriot Chen Meng. In total she has three Olympic golds and two silvers.
World Championships and World Cup
At the World Championships she has won 10 gold medals, one silver and one bronze. Her gold medals include:
- Doubles at Budapest 2019, with Wang Manyu
- Doubles and mixed doubles at Houston 2021, the women's singles silver there being her only silver at that level
- Singles at Durban 2023 and mixed doubles at Durban 2023
- Team events at Chengdu 2022, Busan 2024 and London 2026
- Singles and mixed doubles at Doha 2025
In Doha she defended her singles title by beating Wang Manyu 4–3 in a seven-game final after saving match points.
At the World Cup she has won seven titles, including the singles in Macau in 2024 and 2025, team titles and mixed team titles at Chengdu.
WTT Finals and Asian events
At the WTT Finals she won the singles title in 2021, 2022 and 2023 and the doubles in 2023. At the Asian Games she won mixed doubles and team gold at Jakarta-Palembang 2018, and singles, mixed doubles and team gold at Hangzhou 2022. At the 2026 Asian Games in Aichi-Nagoya she won team gold and took silver in both singles, where she lost 4–2 to Wang Manyu in the final, and mixed doubles. She also won the Asian Championships singles in 2019 and the Asian Cup singles in Haikou in February 2026, her first Asian Cup singles title.
Injury and recent results (2025–2026)
Sun withdrew from the WTT Finals singles semi-final in December 2025 because of an ankle injury. Her return came at the Asian Cup in February 2026. She won the WTT Singapore Smash singles for a third time in March 2026, beating Wang Manyu 4–2 in the final. In July 2026 she won the singles at the United States Smash in Ontario, California, beating Kuai Man in seven games. At the Asian Games in September she reached the final, as above. At the WTT China Smash in Beijing in October 2026 she advanced to the second round.
Ranking
Sun reached the top of the women's world rankings in 2022. Her English Wikipedia article gives her ranking as No. 2 as of 28 September 2026. A July 2026 report described her as world No. 1, and a late-September 2026 preview described Wang Manyu as the new women's world number one. The two sources therefore differ on her position at the time, and the dates of each ranking should be checked against the ITTF list.
Public profile
Coverage of Sun often connects her results to wider efforts to promote women's table tennis and gender equality in the sport. In August 2026 she appeared on the cover of a GQ issue featuring the Chinese national table tennis team.
References
- Sun Yingshaen.wikipedia.org
- Sun Yingsha wins gold medal at table tennis world championships - ESPNespn.com
- Sun Yingsha (CHN)olympics.com
- 2025 World Table Tennis Championships %E2%80%93 Women%27s singlesen.wikipedia.org
- Paris Olympics 2024: Who is China’s Table Tennis Star Sun Yingsha? - Missing Perspectivesmissingperspectives.com
- 2019 World Table Tennis Championships %E2%80%93 Women%27s doublesen.wikipedia.org
- 2019 Asian Table Tennis Championshipsen.wikipedia.org
- Paddling Towards Equality in Table Tennis with Sun Yingshavoiceinsport.com
- Table Tennis: Sun Yingsha and Matsushima Sora take home trophies at United States Smash 2026olympics.com
- Sun Yingsha wins Singapore Smash for third time, while Wang Chuqin reclaims his crownscmp.com
- WTT Singapore Smash: Sun Yingsha wins third title, Wang Chuqin claims men’s crownmacaonews.org
- Sun Yingsha reaches second round at WTT China Smash - CGTNnews.cgtn.com
- Sun Yingsha caps injury return with Asian Cup title - China.org.cnchina.org.cn
- Sun Yingsha one step closer to defending title at WTT Singapore Smash - CGTNnews.cgtn.com
- 2022 WTT Cup Finalsen.wikipedia.org
- Yang Ying (table tennis, born 1977)en.wikipedia.org
- Sun Yingsha（Chinese female table tennis player）_Baiduwikibaike.baidu.com
- 2026 Asian Games Table Tennis - Schedules and Results - PingSundaypingsunday.com
- Table tennis at the 2026 Asian Gamesen.wikipedia.org
- Table tennis at the 2022 Asian Games %E2%80%93 Women%27s singlesen.wikipedia.org