Shanghai Daily, 28 Jul 2011CHINA also dominates in table tennis, considered the national sport, and Chinese coaches are working with foreign teams. Some foreign players have been invited to train in China in a "wolf raising" program.
The best-known Chinese table tennis coach working overseas is Liu Guodong, elder brother of China's national coach Liu Guoliang. Liu Guodong joined Singapore's women's team in 2005 and became Singapore's head table tennis coach the next year.
He helped Singapore's women's team win silver in the 2006 Asian Games; the team reached the finals in the Olympic Games in Beijing two years later. That was Singapore's best achievement in 48 years. Full story
