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Daniela Dodean of Romania ... a woman who's in the ascendancy in the table tennis world rankings ... and attracting lots of attention.
21 year old Daniela is currently ranked at number 9 in the Under 21 age category and at number 34 in the women's world ranking list.
Daniela has already achieved success at all levels of the game ...
Major achievements ...
by courtesy of the ITTF Daniela's achievements already include winning the 2002 European Youth Championship (Cadet) title in Moscow, Russia and the European Youth Championship (Junior) titles in both 2005 in Ostrava, Czechoslovakia and 2006 in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina.
But it didn't stop there ...
Continued success ...
by courtesy of the ITTF Daniela has continued to win titles every year since then.
In 2008 Dodean won the Under 21 Women's Singles title at the Slovenian Open on 18th January 2008 - beating her compatriat Elizabeta Samara to retain the title ... and also captured two more titles.
Daniela defeated Hu Melek to win the Under 21 Women's Singles title at the Kuwait Open on 15 March 2008 and then defeated Yu Meng Yu on 21 March 2008 to win the Under 21 Women's Singles title at the Qatar Open.
Steady progress ...
by courtesy of the ITTF 
Daniela is also making steady progress in the senior events too.
At the Liebherr French Open on 2nd November 2007 she defeated China’s Niu Jianfeng - ranked 15 in the World and winner of five Women's ITTF Pro Tour Singles titles and the 2003 Pro Tour Grand Finals title - in the second round of the Women's Singles event.
It was only the second time since 1997 that Niu Jianfeng had lost in the second round in a Women's Singles event on the ITTF Pro Tour. The one previous occasion was in 1999 when, ironically, she was beaten at the French Open by former World champion, Chire Koyama of Japan.
More Success ...
Daniela had the best win of her life in the 2009 European Championships when, with doubles partner Elizabeta Samara, they took the gold medal, beating Nikoleta Stefanova and Wenling Tan of Italy in the final.
Daniela commented after her win "We have been playing together for a long time.
We have won different tournaments and youth titles but this is our first big title."
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