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Choi Hyo-joo

Nationality

Chinese (before 2013)
South Korean (after 2013)

Born

Yao Yao
15 April 1998 (age 26)
Jiangsu, China

Height

155 cm (5 ft 1 in)^[1]

Weight

50 kg (110 lb)^[1]

Table tennis career

Playing style

Left-handed shakehand grip^[2]

Highest ranking

36 (February 2016)^[3]

Current ranking

69 (20 February 2024)^[4]

Medal record

Women's table tennis

Representing South Korea
World Cup
	2019 Tokyo	Team
Asian Games
	2018 Jakarta	Team
Asian Championships
	2021 Doha	Team

Choi Hyo-joo
Hangul	최효주
Hanja	崔孝珠
Revised Romanization	Choe Hyo-ju
McCune–Reischauer	Ch'oe Hyochu

Yao Yao

Traditional Chinese

姚堯

Simplified Chinese

姚尧

Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Yáo Yáo

Choi Hyo-joo (Korean: 최효주, born 15 April 1998) is a Chinese-born South Korean table tennis player.^[5]^[6] Born in China as Yao Yao (Chinese: 姚尧), she became a naturalized South Korean citizen in November 2013.^[7]

She represented South Korea at the team event in the 2020 Summer Olympics.^[8]

Early life and move to Korea

A Jiangsu native, Choi (then known as Yao Yao) attended a table tennis school in Qingdao, Shandong at a young age.^[9] In 2009, she finished 8th in the national cadet tournament, behind the likes of Chen Meng, Gu Yuting, Shao Jieni, and Zhu Yuling.^[10] She was spotted by Choi Young-il, head coach of the Korean club Samsung Life, who persuaded her to go to South Korea and acquire Korean nationality. Several people helped out with her naturalization: the mother of Jeong Sang-eun, another Chinese-born South Korean player, and Coach Choi's older brother, a public employee, who volunteered to foster her.^[11] Later, when she became a naturalized Korean, she adopted the surname Choi.