Canada's women's table tennis team of Mo Zhang, Ivy Liao, May Tong and Gina (Ching Nam) Fu captured silver at the 2021 Pan Am Championships in Lima, Peru this weekend. Although they suffered a difficult 3-1 loss to Brazil in the final, the result meant the team punched its ticket to the 2022 world team championships in Chengdu, China. On the men's side, Canada's Matteo Martin, Edward Ly, Eugene Wang, and Hongtao Chen finished fifth, which was enough secure qualification to the 2022 world team championships as well. Next up for Canada will be the 2021 International Table Tennis Federation world table tennis championships in Houston, Texas, that will run from Nov. 23-29. Zhang, a native of Vancouver, is set to compete in the women's singles event, as well as the women's doubles with Joyce Xu of Toronto, and in the mixed doubles competition pairing up with Wang, also of Toronto.

Source: CBC News November 23, 2021 05:51 UTC