Unlike other sports, Olympic table tennis has no age floor and ceiling, so Zaza, who was born in 2009 and picked up a table tennis paddle, is set to become the youngest Olympian to compete in the Olympics. She has also participated in figure skating at the 1968 Winter Olympics. She qualified when she was just 11 years old, defeating 42-year-old Mariana Sahakian of Lebanon in the West Asia Olympic qualification tournament in Jordan last year.

She has made it despite constant difficulties to her training schedule resulting from the Syrian civil war, according to the International Table Tennis Federation’s publication, and last year, the Chinese Olympic Committee reportedly invited her to train with the country’s leading players. Today, Zaza will meet 39-year-old Liu Jia of Austria in the first round of the women’s singles competition.

Zaza has high hope:

"I dream of becoming world champion and an Olympic champion one day, But I also want to finish my studies and become a pharmacist", she said in a press conference. Let us tell you that, her father, an amateur football player, has always made sure she had private tuition so she would not miss out on school while competing.

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