1. Ariel Yenhua Hsing was born on November 29,1995 and is an American table tennis player who competed in the 2012 Summer Olympics.
21 Facts About Ariel Hsing
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Ariel Hsing is the first player from North America to win the Intercontinental Cup in 2012 with participants from Africa, Latin America, North America, and Oceania.
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Ariel Hsing was a bronze medalist in women's team and women's singles at the 2011 Pan American Games.
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Ariel Hsing was the women's singles champion at the North American Championships in the year 2013, and at the North America Cup in the year 2011 and 2012.
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Ariel Hsing was born in Fremont, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Ariel Hsing's mother, Xin Hua Jiang, was born in China, and grew up in Henan Province.
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Ariel Hsing's father, Michael Hsing, is a computer engineer who was born in Taiwan.
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Ariel Hsing started playing table tennis when her parents could not find a babysitter one night and brought the then seven-year-old to the Palo Alto Table Tennis Club with them.
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Ariel Hsing joined the Palo Alto Table Tennis Club junior training program under the head coach Dennis Davis.
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Ariel Hsing hung in there and won her first tournament.
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In 2012, Ariel Hsing won the singles titles at the ITTF North American Cup and the United States Junior and Cadet Open.
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Ariel Hsing is acquaintances with Warren Buffett and Bill Gates and used to refer to them as "Uncle Warren" and "Uncle Bill".
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Ariel Hsing met Buffett at age 9 when one of Buffett's friends retained a table tennis coach for Buffett at his seventy-fifth birthday party and it was decided to have the 9-year-old Hsing play Buffett as a joke.
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Since then, Ariel Hsing has been invited to the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Shareholders Meeting to play table tennis with Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, and the stockholders.
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Ariel Hsing stumped panelists Ciara Bravo, Alex Heartman, Leon Thomas III and Stephen Kramer Glickman, for one round.
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Ariel Hsing entered the Olympics as the 46th seed and ranked 115th in the world.
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Ariel Hsing has been blogging for espnW for her Olympic journey.
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Ariel Hsing graduated from Valley Christian High School in San Jose in 2013.
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Ariel Hsing is a graduate of Princeton University and was elected as Social Chair for the Class of 2017.
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Ariel Hsing is featured in the documentary Top Spin directed by Mina T Son and Sara Newens.
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Ariel Hsing participated in Andy Akiho's Ping Pong Concerto, world premiered in Shanghai on July 18,2015, at Shanghai Symphony Hall by Shanghai Symphony Orchestra.