To Catalonia to talk about tennis de taula ens inevitably carries the name of Gàlia Dvorak, four Olympic champions and a reference in esports. Her example has opened the way for a lot of players, but many have still been able to reach the elite. One of them, sens dubte, is Sofia-Xuan Zhang. The Girbau Vic Tennis Taula Club’s Girbau was 23 years old and is present and future in this discipline after having entered the top 100 of the world ranking as a youngster.
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Zhang is going to begin to shake the shovel that his sister had, but with a clear baggage at home: the second mother was a tennis player from taula and coneixia all the secrets that surround this esport. The pressure of her home was evident and the expectations in her filla, molt altes. Sofia-Xuan Zhang will combine table tennis with tennis for a while, but the great racket will finally remain in a rack.
Amb the constancy with virtue and an environment prone to creixer in this esport, Sofia-Xuan Zhang had a clear dream: “To be able to compete in an Olympic Jocs”. Fa un any, a Tòquio, the Catalan is going to stay senseless because Spain is not going to classify per team and Dvorak and María Xiao are going to pass her seu davant.
It was the third and it is going to stay at the gates. He hopes to get to Paris 2024 or Los Angeles 2028 while not losing the north: “My goal is to maintain the profile of an elite professional athlete while now the table tennis band, especially cultural ones, recognizes that the sport he has open doors and unique experiences: “The tennis de taula has given me the possibility of traveling to many different countries, more sure of good studies“.
Tot i that ensures that you have other passions, to have more confidence in my mateix ia fer un munt d’amistats“. Per tot plegat, faces that he did not follow a vocational tria and more aviat l’esport hagi up by family inheritance, he hopes not to trench the link with tennis de taula: “I would like to work in the federative sphere, but if I don’t advise, work a feina that will allow me to maintain the link between Catalonia, Europe and Asia“.