What is Li Xiaoxia?
{{Chinese name|Li}} '''Li Xiaoxia''' ([[Simplified Chinese characters|simplified Chinese]]: 李晓霞; [[Traditional Chinese characters|traditional Chinese]]: 李曉霞; born 16 January 1988<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.google.de/search?q=Li+Xiaoxia|title=Li Xiaoxia - Google Search|website=www.google.de|language=en|access-date=2018-04-09}}</ref> in [[Anshan]]) is a Chinese [[table tennis]] player. With her team, she won gold five times at the world [[championship]]s and gold two times at the [[Olympics]]. In [[Doubles (tennis)|doubles]] Li became the world champion three times and won gold twenty-one times on the world tour. After the [[Olympics]] 2016 she finished her career.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://tischtennis-olympia.de/news/rio-2016/li-xiaoxia-beendet-ihre-spielerkarriere/|title=Li Xiaoxia beendet ihre Spielerkarriere nach den Olympischen Spielen 2016|date=2016-09-11|work=Tischtennis Olympia|access-date=2018-04-09|language=de-DE}}</ref> [[File:Mondial Ping -Women's Singles - Quarterfinal - Wu Yang-Li Xiaoxia - 05.jpg|thumb|Li at the WTTC 2013 in Paris]] == Career == In 2006 she took part in the world [[championship]]s for the first time. With the team, she won gold. After that, Li came under the best 10 players in the world rankings. At the [[FIFA World Cup|world cup]], where she took part for the first time too, Li came to the Quarterfinals. In the next year, she won silver in the [[Singles (tennis)|singles]] and [[Doubles (tennis)|doubles]] at the [[WTTC]], and at the grand finals she won gold. For her win at the [[FIFA World Cup|world cup]] in 2008, Li was for the first time number one in the world. But she wasn't nominated for the [[Olympics]] in 2008. In the next year, Li did not win a lot of big titles, except the [[Asian Games]], so she fell back in time to 8th place in the [[ITTF]]-rankings. In the doubles Li Xiaoxia became the 2009 and 2011 world-champion and won the 2011 world tour grand finals, too. In the singles, she became vice-world champion. In 2012, Li was for the first time nominated for the [[