Ai Fukuhara has been a darling of the Japanese table tennis scene for a long time now, though recently she has been eclipsed by the younger Kasumi Ishikawa. Fukuhara has a long and varied experience with table tennis, including about a year (?) playing Chinese league table tennis for a provincial team. That is no doubt one of the main reasons for her high world ranking, which is at present 7.
That ranking is a bit of a surprise, because in Japan she generally loses out to Ishikawa (number 10) and Sayaka Hirano (number 11), and as far as I know she has never won the national championships in Japan.
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