birth_place headercolor weight hrank height sport birth_date playingstyle article_title name
shenyang , china lightblue 50 kg lb 0 on 48 -lrb- december 2012 -rrb- 1.64 0 on table tennis 30 june 1983 left-handed , shakehand grip tan ruiwu
 tan ruiwu
tan ruiwu

tan ruiwu -lrb- born june 30 , 1983 in shenyang , china -rrb- is a croatian table tennis player of chinese origin .
as of december 2012 , he is ranked no. 48 in the world by the international table tennis federation -lrb- ittf -rrb- .
he is also left-handed , and uses the shakehand grip .
tan represented his adopted nation croatia at the 2008 summer olympics in beijing , where he competed for the singles and team events .
in his first event , men 's singles , tan received two byes in the preliminary rounds , before defeating japan 's seiya kishikawa , singapore 's gao ning , and hong kong 's li ching .
he reached the quarterfinal round of the competition , where he lost to china 's wang liqin , with a unanimous set score of 0 -- 4 .
few days later , tan joined the national team , with his fellow players andrej gaćina and six-time olympic veteran zoran primorac , for the inaugural men 's team event .
he and his team placed second in the preliminary pool , with two victories and a single defeat from the german team -lrb- led by dimitrij ovtcharov -rrb- , but offered a second chance for the bronze medal by entering the playoffs .
tan and his team , however , lost their first playoff to the austrian team , with a set score of 1 -- 3 .
