Fan began playing at age 6, before her disability. In 1999, on her way home from a table tennis tournament, she was hit by a motorist and had a fractured right femoral head and avascular necrosis, which resulted in unequal leg length.[1]
References
^ abFang Zhou (11 September 2008). "范蕾:厄运难阻乒乓梦 和父亲一起做生命的强者". Henan Daily (in Chinese). Retrieved 3 February 2020.