王楠第一次获得单打世界冠军,是在1999年第45届艾恩德霍芬世乒赛单项比赛上。同时她还获得女双和混双冠军。 这三枚金牌来之不易,尤其是女单金牌。前三轮她赢得很轻松,当进入第4轮时,她遇到了经验丰富的日本选手小山智丽。她先失一局,第二局几乎到了崩溃的边缘(13比17、19比20落后),但是她凭着自己的毅力渡过难关,拿下了这场比赛。半决赛对韩国的柳智惠,她面临着更大的困难。第5局她一上场就以1比6落后,而且还是在自己发球的情况下,但她又一次挺过来了。 Wang Nan won the singles world champion for the first time, in the 45th Eindhoven World Championships in 1999 individual competition. She also won the doubles and mixed doubles title. These three gold medals hard-won, especially the single gold medal. The first three rounds she won very easily, when entering the fourth round, she met the experienced Japanese player Hill Chivalry. She lost a game first, the second inning almost to the brink (13: 17-19, 20 behind), but she managed to get through the storm with her perseverance. The semi-finals against Korea’s Liu Zhihui, she faces greater difficulties. In the fifth inning, she landed 1: 6 in the first game, and still served on her own, but she survived again.