Feng Tianwei joins Sport Singapore and pursues overseas master's at the same time

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Feng Tianwei is set to join Sport Singapore as an employee, the national sports agency revealed on Monday. It announced that the Republic's most bemedalled Olympian and top table tennis player will join its sport development group, working on the development of sport...

While this move rules her out of the Sept 30-Oct 9 World Team Table Tennis Championships in Chengdu, China, the 36-year-old added she will continue to train at a lower intensity to maintain her fitness, and"if I am given the opportunity, I will continue to represent Singapore".

In the same interview, she also committed her future to Singapore when asked if she would remain in the Republic for the long term. However, behind the success and glory were injuries and challenges she had to overcome, as the right-hander has had to deal with pain in her right ankle, both knees, waist, shoulder, elbow and playing wrist, in which 70 per cent of the cartilage has worn out and she cannot rotate it.

 

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