Olympic table tennis player Lily Zhang will compete in the Major League Table Tennis tournament this weekend at the Alameda County Fairgrounds. Zhang, a six-time U.S. National Champion and four-time Olympian, will represent the Bay Area Blasters against teams from across the U.S. and beyond.
Olympic table tennis player Lily Zhang returns the ball during practice at 888 Table Tennis in Burlingame, Calif., on Thursday, June 20, 2024. PLEASANTON — The Alameda County Fairgrounds this weekend is hosting a Major League Table Tennis tournament, featuring the Bay Area Blasters andZhang and the Blasters will compete against teams from across the U.S., hailing from New Jersey, Texas, the Carolinas and more.
Zhang, who grew up playing table tennis as a kid in a laundry room at Stanford where her father worked as a professor, competed in her fourth Olympics in Paris last year, where she reached the top 16 players in the world for women’s singles.Zhang is also a six-time U.S. National Champion and alumna of University of California, Berkeley. She first competed in the Olympics at age 16 in the 2012 London games, then again in 2016 in Rio de Janeiro and again in 2020 at the Tokyo games.
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