Lily Zhang

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.

In 2012, she won her first national championship in women's singles, beating defending champion Ariel Hsing in 7 games.

Zhang participated in the 2011 Pan American Games where she played both as an individual and as part of the United States team.

[15] On November 22, 2011, Lily Zhang and Russian Anna Tikhomirova won the Women's Doubles title at the Qatar Peace and Sport Cup.

[5] After qualifying for the last singles position on the 2012 United States Olympic Team by beating Canada's Anqi Luo in five games in the North American Olympic Trials, Lily Zhang would head into London as the youngest player of the table tennis competition[16] and was seeded 49th behind her teammate Ariel Hsing.

[20] On September 2, 2012, Zhang won the women's singles title at the ITTF North American Championships with a victory over fellow 2012 Olympian Erica Wu in straight games (11–8, 11–3, 11–7, 11–9).

Twice before, at both the 2011 and the 2010 North American Championships she had failed to achieve the title, with losses in the finals on both occasions to Canada's Zhang Mo.

[22] As a result of her performance during the championships (12 wins, 2 losses), Zhang broke into the top 100 of the ITTF women's world ranking for the first time in her career.

[24] At the Tokyo Olympics, after receiving a brief scare and dropping the first game in her opening round of 64 match against Nigeria's Offiong Edem, Zhang was able to quickly regroup and adjust to cruise to a 4–1 victory.