Background
His father was a national doubles champion, and his mother Li Kuei-Mei was a member of the national team From the age of 13 his mother sent him to China for training several times. At the end of 2000, his mother decided to let Chuang train in Europe, including France and Germany.
Career
As of March 2016 he is ranked 7 in the world. Chuang"s parents were both table tennis players in Taiwan. Chuang started competing in 1989, at the age of 8.
Chuang first made it to the Taiwan national team in 1998.
In 1999, Chuang made his World Championships and ITTF Pro Tour debut. The process made his matches a combination of the Chinese and European playing styles.
2002 was a sparkling year in Chuang"s career. He reached his first three finals on the Pro Tour, but ended them all as the runner-up.
At the year"s end, he consecutively faced the opponents who defeated him in the previous three finals of the Pro Tour, and recorded three straight wins at the Pro Tour Grand Finals.
3, the highest world ranking of his career, at the end of the year. He advanced to the quarter-finals in the 2004 Athens Olympics, ending the Games with a loss to Wang Hao. In the men"s doubles, he and team-mate Chiang Peng-Lung reached the last 16, where they were beaten by Błaszczyk and Krzeszewski of Poland.
In July 2008, his own table tennis stadium, Chih Yuan The Ping-Pong Stadium, opened in Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
The stadium not only operates for Chuang"s training, but is opened for other players and the public. At that year"s Olympics, he was beaten in the third round by Yang Zi of Singapore.
As of June 2012 Chuang plays for Werder Bremen in the Bundesliga in Germany (TTBL). He reached the bronze medal match at that year"s Olympics, where he lost to Dimitrij Ovtcharov.
Singles (as of January 27, 2015):
Olympics: semi-finals (2012)
World Championships: round of 16 (2003, 2007)
World Cup appearances: 10.
Best record: quarter-finals (2006, 10)
ITTF World Tour titles: 3 (Brazil 2003, Chile 2011 and Spanish Open 2012). Runner-up: 10 (Qatar, Japan, Dutch Open 2002. Danish Open 2003; United States of America, Japan Open 2004.
Singapore Open 2006.
Austrian, German Open 2008. Hungarian Open 2010)
ITTF World Tour Grand Finals appearances: 12. Asian Games: runner-up (2002).