Canadian Women’s Table Tennis Team Wins Silver at Pan Am Championships, Qualifies for 2022 World Championships

The Canadian women’s table tennis team of Mo Zhang, Ivy Liao, May Tong and Gina (Ching Nam) Fu won silver at the 2021 Pan American Championships in Lima, Peru this weekend.

Despite an initial 3-1 loss to the United States, the Canadians managed to bounce back and claim three straight wins en route to a berth in the final.

Despite suffering a difficult 3-1 loss to Brazil in the final, the result meant the team had secured their ticket to the 2022 World Team Championships in Chengdu, China.

“The team competition this time was nerve-racking but exciting as we all wanted to do our best and knew that places at the 2022 World Championships were on the line,” said Liao, who also qualified for the Championships. quarter-finals for women. singles earlier in the competition.

On the men’s side, Canadians Matteo Martin, Edward Ly, Eugene Wang and Hongtao Chen finished fifth, which was also sufficient qualification for the 2022 world team championships.

The next stop for Canada will be the 2021 International Table Tennis Federation World Table Tennis Championships in Houston, Texas, which runs November 23-29.

Zhang, of Vancouver, will compete in the women’s singles event, as well as the women’s doubles with Joyce Xu of Toronto, and the mixed doubles competition with Wang, also of Toronto.

Jeremy Hazin of Toronto will compete in the men’s singles event and team up with Xu to compete in the mixed doubles competition.

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