Lily Zhang
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| Full name | Lily Ann Zhang |
| Nationality |
 United States
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June 16, 1996 Redwood City, California |
| Playing style | Shakehand, all-round attack |
| Highest ranking | 67 (May 2014] |
| Current ranking | 84 (November 2016) |
| Height | 5.45 ft (166 cm) |
| Weight | 117 lb (53 kg) |
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| Hanyu Pinyin | Zhāng Ān |
Lily Ann Zhang (born June 16, 1996) is an American table tennis player who competed in the 2012 Summer Olympics in London with teammates Ariel Hsing and Erica Wu. She was the 2012 US national champion in women's singles. In 2011, she was a bronze medalist in women's singles and women's team at the Pan American Games and won the women's doubles title at the Qatar Peace and Sport Cup. She is currently a member of the United States National Women's team. She has been ranked as high as #2 in the cadet (U-15) world ranking and #5 in the junior (U-18) world ranking.
Lily Zhang was born in Redwood City, California on June 16, 1996 to Chinese parents. Her family lived on the campus of Stanford University, where her father was a mathematics professor. Her father played for his county’s table tennis team in Xi'an, China, and Lily enjoyed playing table tennis with her parents while she was growing up. Dennis Davis, a friend and table tennis colleague of her father, would also bring her to the Palo Alto Table Tennis Club to practice. Lily graduated from Palo Alto High School in 2014 before enrolling in the University of California, Berkeley. After her freshman year, Lily took a gap year off to train for the 2016 Olympic Games.
She is featured in the documentary Top Spin.
From a young age, Lily Zhang showed promising skill. When she was 7 years old, Dennis Davis, the president of the Palo Alto Table Tennis Club and the North American representative of the junior commission of International Table Tennis Federation, began training her. When she was 11, Zhang made the U.S. Cadet Team. By age 12, Zhang became the youngest player to ever make the U.S. Women's Team, and when she was 13 years old, she was the #2 ranked Junior Woman table tennis player in the United States.
At the 2010 and 2011 U.S. National Championships, Zhang won the title in the junior girls' event and was the runner-up in women's singles. In 2012, she won her first national championship in women's singles, beating defending champion Ariel Hsing in 7 games.
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