table tennis player Jiawei to tie the knot
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FOLLOWING a six-month whirlwind romance, Li Jiawei is set to tie the knot.
The China-born Singaporean table tennis star registered her marriage with a Beijing-based businessman in the Chinese capital last Friday.
The news was a surprise to many, coming so soon after Li and national badminton player Ronald Susilo called off their engagement in January.
The Sunday Times understands that Li's new love interest is in his mid-30s and shares her surname.
Li, who led the women's table tennis team to Singapore's first Olympic medal in 48 years two months ago, told the media from Beijing: 'I'm delighted and feel very blessed.
'But this doesn't count as a real marriage yet, it's just an engagement. Only when we have had a proper banquet will it count. This won't come so soon though, because I have several competitions coming up and I will focus on them first.'
Sources said Li was initially drawn to the fact that the businessman shares her surname after they were introduced by a mutual friend in March.
She had long wished that her children would also carry her surname. She had even toyed with the idea of having one child bear her surname and another carry her husband's.
Getting hitched to the businessman will present the perfect scenario.
Her engagement also completes an amazing turnaround for the 27-year-old after a turbulent couple of months.
After breaking up with Susilo, 29, in January, the former golden couple of Singapore sports were embroiled in an ugly spat which has since been settled out of court.
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