Bernadette Szőcs
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Full name | Bernadette Cynthia Szőcs | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nickname(s) | Bernie | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Residence | Bremen, Germany | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Târgu Mureș, Romania[1] | 5 March 1995|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.59 m (5 ft 3 in)[2] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 48 kg (106 lb)[2] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Equipment(s) | Tibhar | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Highest ranking | 8 (16 April 2024) [3] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Current ranking | 8 (16 April 2024)[4] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Bernadette Cynthia Szőcs (Hungarian: Szőcs Bernadette Cynthia; born 5 March 1995) is a professional table tennis player from Romania.[1][5]
She is the incumbent European games champion in women's singles and a three time Olympian, having participated in 2016, 2020 and 2024 editions of summer Olympics.
Career
[edit]In September 2011, she travelled to Argentina for the World Junior Circuit event where she overtook Kasumi Ishikawa to reach the top spot in the competition series.[6]
In July 2012, she was ranked 5th in the ITTF World Junior Circuit.[7]
Szőcs won the singles event in the inaugural season of T2, beating Feng Tianwei in the final. Bernadette started to play Table Tennis at 9 years of age for CS Gloria Bistrița-Năsăud. She was declared the 68th honorary citizen of Bistrița in 2018.[8] She was suspended in 2017 and signed with CSA Steaua București in 2019.[9]
Szőcs played for Dabangg Delhi TTC in Ultimate table tennis, a table tennis league in India.
In August 2019 she was ranked no. 14 in the world in the International Table Tennis Federation rankings and no. 1 in the European Table Tennis Union rankings, and in July in the T2 Diamond event, became the first player to use a coloured rubber – pink.
In Szőcs's first international match in 2021, Szőcs upset second seed and world ranked number 8 Cheng I-Ching in the round of 32 of the WTT Contender event at WTT Doha.[10]
Personal life
[edit]Szőcs is of Hungarian descent. She has an older brother, Hunor, who is also a table tennis player.[11]
Singles titles
[edit]Year | Tournament | Final opponent | Score | Ref |
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2017 | ITTF Challenge, Brazil Open | Audrey Zarif | 4–0 | [12] |
2018 | Europe Top 16 | Li Jie | 4–1 | [13] |
2023 | European Games | Xiaoxin Yang | 4–3 | [14] |
References
[edit]- ^ a b "BERNADETTE CYNTHIA SZOCS". cosr.ro (in Romanian). Retrieved 27 June 2023.
- ^ a b "Bernadette Szőcs". olympedia.org. Retrieved 27 June 2023.
- ^ "Rank History". results.ittf.link. Retrieved 25 February 2024.
- ^ "ITTF Table Tennis World Ranking". ittf.com. Retrieved 4 July 2023.
- ^ "Biography". realitatea.net. Archived from the original on 3 February 2011. Retrieved 4 January 2011.
- ^ "Se vrea recompensarea campioanei europene, târgumureșeanca Szőcs Bernadette, cu 15.000 de lei" (in Romanian). Punctul. 16 November 2017.
- ^ "Under 18 World ranking". International Table Tennis Federation. 4 July 2012. Archived from the original on 8 March 2016. Retrieved 11 January 2012.
- ^ "Bernadette Szocs, oficial al 68-lea cetățean de onoare". Timp online. 22 February 2018.
- ^ "Berni, bistrițeanca, spulberă tot la naționale! Gloria- 3 medalii, CSM – praful de pe tobă!" (in Romanian). Sportul bistritean. 27 March 2023.
- ^ "WTT Doha Day 1 Recap and Day 2 Preview". edgesandnets.com. 3 March 2021. Archived from the original on 4 March 2021. Retrieved 3 March 2021.
- ^ "Interviu cu Hunor Szocs: "Obiectivul meu este mai mare decât a fi unul dintre cei mai buni jucători români"" (in Romanian). Ziarul de Sport. 15 April 2012.
- ^ "First for Bernadette Szocs, victory in São Paulo". ittf.com. 7 May 2017. Retrieved 28 June 2023.
- ^ "Review Day Two: Timo Boll and Bernadette Szocs claim titles on emotional final day in Montreux". ittf.com. 4 February 2018. Retrieved 28 June 2023.
- ^ "Table tennis - 2023 European Games: Bernadette Szocs wins gold medal in women's singles". AGERPRES. 27 June 2023. Retrieved 28 June 2023.
External links
[edit]- Bernadette Szocs at World Table Tennis
- Bernadette Szocs at ittfranking.com at the Wayback Machine (archived 1 July 2014)
- Bernadette Szocs at Olympics.com
- Bernadette Szocs at Olympic.org (archived)
- Bernadette Szocs at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics
- Bernadette Cynthia Szocs at the Comitetul Olimpic și Sportiv Român (in Romanian) (archive)
- Szocs Bernadette Cynthia on Instagram
- Romanian female table tennis players
- Living people
- 1995 births
- Sportspeople from Târgu Mureș
- Romanian sportspeople of Hungarian descent
- Table tennis players at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics
- Table tennis players at the 2015 European Games
- Table tennis players at the 2019 European Games
- Table tennis players at the 2023 European Games
- European Games medalists in table tennis
- European Games gold medalists for Romania
- European Games silver medalists for Romania
- European Games bronze medalists for Romania
- Table tennis players at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Olympic table tennis players for Romania
- Summer World University Games medalists in table tennis
- FISU World University Games bronze medalists for Romania
- Medalists at the 2015 Summer Universiade
- Medalists at the 2017 Summer Universiade
- Table tennis players at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- 21st-century Romanian sportswomen
- Table tennis players at the 2024 Summer Olympics