Dina Meshref
Egypt’s Dina Meshref qualified for the ITTF Women’s World Cup taking place from 8-10 November in Weihai (China) after winning her seventh successive ITTF Africa Cup title, and will head to there ranked 32nd in the world. The 26-year-old, who competed at the YOG Singapore 2010 before going on to play at the Olympic Games London 2012 and Rio 2016, will be making her eighth World Cup appearance, and has already secured her place at next year’s rearranged Olympic Games Tokyo 2020.
Lily Zhang
Before winning singles bronze at the YOG Nanjing 2014, the USA’s Lily Zhang had already competed at the 2011 Pan American Games, where she won two bronze medals, and the Olympic Games London 2012, where she was the youngest player in the event. A semi-finalist at the 2019 ITTF World Cup, Zhang is currently ranked 27th in the world and qualified for the Weihai tournament after finishing as runner-up at the 2020 ITTF Pan-America Cup in Puerto Rico in February.
