Deng Yaping was born on February 6th.1973.She started to play table tennis in 1978.In 1983,s-he joined the Henan table tennis team.She joined the national table tennis team.In 1988,she went to Tsinghua University,majored in English and management in 1997.From 1993 to 1998,she
became the number one women’s singles player in the ITTF