Bernadette Cynthia Szőcs (born 5 March 1995) is a professional

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player from

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. She is the incumbent

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champion in women's singles and a three time Olympian, having participated in

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editions of summer Olympics.

Career

In September 2011, she travelled to Argentina for the World Junior Circuit event where she overtook

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to reach the top spot in the competition series. In July 2012, she was ranked 5th in the ITTF World Junior Circuit. Szőcs won the singles event in the inaugural season of T2, beating Feng Tianwei in the final. Bernadette started to play Table Tennis at 9 years of age for

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. She was declared the 68th honorary citizen of

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in 2018. She was suspended in 2017 and signed with

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in 2019. Szőcs played for Dabangg Delhi TTC in Ultimate table tennis, a table tennis league in India. In August 2019 she was ranked no. 14 in the world in the

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rankings and no. 1 in the

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rankings, and in July in the T2 Diamond event, became the first player to use a coloured rubber – pink. In Szőcs's first international match in 2021, Szőcs upset second seed and world ranked number 8 Cheng I-Ching in the round of 32 of the WTT Contender event at WTT Doha.

Personal life

Szőcs has an older brother, Hunor, who is also a table tennis player.

Singles titles

References

External links

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