Fan Zhendong and Sun Yingsha are good friends in private.

Fan Zhendong, born on January 22, 1997 in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, is an athlete of the Chinese table tennis team and plays for the Guangdong Provincial Table Tennis Team and the Chinese National Table Tennis Team. Before going to school, Fan Zhendong's parents heard that there were sports teams in primary schools, and children who joined the sports teams would be exempted from some tuition fees, so they signed him up to learn table tennis at the Children's Palace in Haizhu District, Guangzhou. After being selected to attend Guangzhou Weilun Sports School Before that, I had been studying under Haizhu District Children’s Palace and Haizhu District coaches Wen Haoguang (Uncle Wen), Yang Biyu and Zheng Jingxuan.

At the same time, Fan Zhendong was studying in Tongfu Middle School No. 1 in Haizhu District, Guangzhou (a key table tennis primary school). Fan Zhendong was selected by the city sports school because he represented the school in city competitions. Every morning I go to class and take the afternoon off to go to the city sports school for training.

In 2008, Fan Zhendong was selected by the Bayi team. In February 2012, he entered the Chinese national table tennis team; in December, he won the men's singles, mixed doubles, and men's team championships and the men's doubles runner-up at the Table Tennis World Youth Championship.