Men · CHN
Li Hechen
World No. 175 ▲2
- World ranking
- No. 175, 145 points
- Age
- 17 (born 14 March 2009)
Overview
Latest results
| Date | Event | Opponent | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 Oct 2026 | China Smash 2026Men's doubles, Last 16 | Lim Jonghoon / Oh Junsung with Zhou Guanhong | L 0-34-11, 6-11, 5-11 |
| 6 Oct 2026 | China Smash 2026Men's doubles, Last 32 | Lubomir Pistej / Jakub Zelinka with Zhou Guanhong | W 3-111-4, 8-11, 11-2, 11-4 |
| 1 Oct 2026 | China Smash 2026Men's singles, Qualifying round 1 | Nikita Artemenko | L 1-37-11, 4-11, 11-5, 7-11 |
| 18 Sep 2026 | WTT Star Contender Astana 2026Mixed doubles, Quarter-final | Fang Bo / Jia Nan Yuan with Yao Ruixuan | L 2-312-10, 9-11, 11-3, 12-14, 11-13 |
| 18 Sep 2026 | WTT Star Contender Astana 2026Men's doubles, Quarter-final | Eduard Ionescu / Darius Movileanu with Zhou Guanhong | L 2-312-10, 11-6, 12-14, 0-11, 7-11 |
Latest news
- China's coaches say Youth Olympic Games exposed weakness under pressure after Dakar ends without a medal
- Youth Olympic Games: China leave without a table tennis medal for the first time as Otálvaro beats Li Hechen
- Youth Olympic Games: Ryusei Kawakami and Miku Matsushima win mixed doubles gold for Japan
Honours
1 title or gold medal on record.
All honours →News
- International
China's coaches say Youth Olympic Games exposed weakness under pressure after Dakar ends without a medal
Wu Hao said both of Li Hechen's defeats were decided after 10-10, and Zheng Changgong said Chen Min-hsin was more decisive than Yao Ruixuan in the seventh game.
- International
Youth Olympic Games: China leave without a table tennis medal for the first time as Otálvaro beats Li Hechen
The 16-year-old Colombian won a fifth game that he had led 9-5 and then trailed, as Miku Matsushima reached the girls' semi-finals without dropping a game.
- International
Youth Olympic Games: Ryusei Kawakami and Miku Matsushima win mixed doubles gold for Japan
The Japanese pair, who knocked out China in the quarter-finals, beat Hong Kong in the Dakar final, while Taiwan came from behind against Thailand to take bronze.
Results
Recent matches
| Date | Event | Opponent | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 Oct 2026 | China Smash 2026Men's doubles, Last 16 | Lim Jonghoon / Oh Junsung with Zhou Guanhong | L 0-34-11, 6-11, 5-11 |
| 6 Oct 2026 | China Smash 2026Men's doubles, Last 32 | Lubomir Pistej / Jakub Zelinka with Zhou Guanhong | W 3-111-4, 8-11, 11-2, 11-4 |
| 1 Oct 2026 | China Smash 2026Men's singles, Qualifying round 1 | Nikita Artemenko | L 1-37-11, 4-11, 11-5, 7-11 |
| 18 Sep 2026 | WTT Star Contender Astana 2026Mixed doubles, Quarter-final | Fang Bo / Jia Nan Yuan with Yao Ruixuan | L 2-312-10, 9-11, 11-3, 12-14, 11-13 |
| 18 Sep 2026 | WTT Star Contender Astana 2026Men's doubles, Quarter-final | Eduard Ionescu / Darius Movileanu with Zhou Guanhong | L 2-312-10, 11-6, 12-14, 0-11, 7-11 |
| 17 Sep 2026 | WTT Star Contender Astana 2026Mixed doubles, Last 16 | Abdullah Yigenler / Ece Harac with Yao Ruixuan | W 3-011-5, 11-8, 12-10 |
| 17 Sep 2026 | WTT Star Contender Astana 2026Men's doubles, Last 16 | Chen Junsong / Chen Yuanyu with Zhou Guanhong | W 3-214-12, 2-11, 12-10, 5-11, 11-6 |
| 16 Sep 2026 | WTT Star Contender Astana 2026Mixed doubles, Qualifying round 1 | Danyang Shi / Alissa Tsvigun with Yao Ruixuan | W 3-011-3, 11-6, 11-7 |
| 16 Sep 2026 | WTT Star Contender Astana 2026Men's doubles, Qualifying round 1 | Alexey Markin / Nurislam Kassym with Zhou Guanhong | W 3-014-12, 11-3, 11-7 |
| 15 Sep 2026 | WTT Star Contender Astana 2026Men's singles, Qualifying round 2 | Maksim Grebnev | L 0-39-11, 8-11, 11-13 |
| 15 Aug 2026 | WTT Feeder Olomouc 2026Mixed doubles, Qualifying round 1 | Tiago Abiodun | W 4-34-7, 7-6, 7-4, 1-7, 7-4, 2-7, 7-1 |
| 12 Apr 2026 | WTT Contender Taiyuan 2026Men's doubles, Final | Lin Shidong / Huang Youzheng with Wen Ruibo | W 3-212-10, 10-12, 11-7, 8-11, 11-8 |
| 11 Apr 2026 | WTT Contender Taiyuan 2026Men's doubles, Semi-final | Maharu Yoshimura / Kazuhiro Yoshimura with Wen Ruibo | W 3-111-9, 11-4, 8-11, 11-6 |
| 10 Apr 2026 | WTT Contender Taiyuan 2026Men's doubles, Quarter-final | Ho Kwan Kit / Li Hon Ming with Wen Ruibo | W 3-011-6, 11-4, 11-8 |
| 10 Apr 2026 | WTT Contender Taiyuan 2026Men's singles, Last 16 | Hiroto Shinozuka | L 0-38-11, 8-11, 7-11 |
| 9 Apr 2026 | WTT Contender Taiyuan 2026Men's singles, Last 32 | Kazuhiro Yoshimura | W 3-211-6, 0-11, 9-11, 11-6, 12-10 |
| 9 Apr 2026 | WTT Contender Taiyuan 2026Men's doubles, Last 16 | Cedric Meissner / Ma Jinbao with Wen Ruibo | W 3-211-9, 10-12, 8-11, 11-4, 11-9 |
| 9 Apr 2026 | WTT Contender Taiyuan 2026Mixed doubles, Last 16 | Cedric Meissner / Lee Hoi Man with Yao Ruixuan | L 2-311-6, 12-10, 9-11, 9-11, 15-17 |
| 29 Jan 2026 | WTT Feeder Doha 2026Men's singles, Last 32 | Sathiyan Gnanasekaran | L 1-35-11, 8-11, 12-10, 7-11 |
| 25 Sep 2025 | China Smash 2025Men's singles, Qualifying round 1 | Leonardo Iizuka | L 1-311-4, 7-11, 7-11, 8-11 |
Official results from World Table Tennis. Times are UK dates.
Season by season
| Year | Singles | Won-lost | Win % | Titles | Finals | Doubles |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 5 | 1-4 | 20% | 0 | 0 | 10-4 |
| 2025 | 3 | 1-2 | 33% | 0 | 0 | 9-4 |
| 2024 | 3 | 2-1 | 67% | 0 | 0 | 1-1 |
| 2023 | 2 | 1-1 | 50% | 0 | 0 | 0-2 |
WTT and ITTF events from 2023, main draw and qualifying, walkovers left out. Team-event matches are listed under recent matches but not counted here.
Head to head
Singles against the players met most often.
- Kazuhiro Yoshimura1-0
- Wassim Essid1-0
- Iulian Chirita1-0
- Rawad Alnaser1-0
- Mudit Dani1-0
- Nikita Artemenko0-1
- Maksim Grebnev0-1
- Hiroto Shinozuka0-1
- Sathiyan Gnanasekaran0-1
- Leonardo Iizuka0-1
Where the ranking points come from
145 points from 8 counted results (ITTF world ranking, week 46, 9 November 2026). A player's best results over 12 months count; each drops off a year after the event.
| Event | Result | Points | Drops off | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| WTT Contender Taiyuan 2026 | Last 16 | 45 | Counts | 19 April 2027 |
| WTT Youth Star Contender Metz 2026 | Runner-up | 20 | Counts | 26 April 2027 |
| ITTF World Youth Championships 2025 | Semi-final | 20 | Counts | 30 November 2026 |
| China Youth Smash 2026 | Quarter-final | 15 | Counts | 18 October 2027 |
| Singapore Youth Smash 2026 | Quarter-final | 15 | Counts | 8 March 2027 |
| Dakar 2026 Youth Olympic Games | Quarter-final | 12 | Counts | 15 November 2027 |
| China Smash 2026 | Qualifying | 10 | Counts | 18 October 2027 |
| WTT Star Contender Astana 2026 - President’s Cup | Qualifying | 8 | Counts | 27 September 2027 |
| Europe Youth Smash - Sweden 2026 | Last 16 | 10 | Not counted | 23 August 2027 |
| WTT Youth Star Contender Bangkok 2026 | Quarter-final | 8 | Not counted | 31 May 2027 |
| WTT Contender Muscat 2026 | Group stage | 4 | Not counted | 1 February 2027 |
| WTT Feeder Doha 2026 | Last 32 | 2 | Not counted | 8 February 2027 |
From World Table Tennis's ranking records.
Honours
Honours
At the majors and Grand Smashes
| 2025 | 2026 | Titles | |
|---|---|---|---|
| China Smash | Q | Q | 0 |
W won, F final, SF semi-final, QF quarter-final, R16 last 16 and so on; Grp group stage, Q qualifying, – did not play or no record, Not held: no event that year. Singles, except the World Team Championships, which show the team's finish in years the player played or won a medal. Full results from 2025 from World Table Tennis's records; earlier years show medals only.
WTT tour 1
- Winner 2026 WTT Contender Taiyuan doubles WTT Contender Taiyuan 2026
Results, rankings and playing details from World Table Tennis. Biography, clubs, equipment and championship medals from worldtabletennis.com, checked 10 November 2026.