A great athlete and leader, born in Hunan Province, China, in 1973; currently considered one of the best female Ping-Pong players in the history of the sport; winner of  four Olympic gold medals and participant, individually or as a team member, in ten World Championship Titles. Between 1991 and 1998 she was ranked the number one woman player in the world. In 1998, Deng Ya Ping enrolled in Cambridge University and in Tsinghua University in Beijing. She is currently a Representative to the People's Congress of the People's Republic of China. In 2001, she was voted number two by readers of the Xinhua News Agency Global Magazine in a list of 20 most influential women in China in the last 20 years. (Tile dedicated by Dian Grueneich in honor of her daughter.)