Quick Facts
Biography
Bernadette Cynthia Szőcs ([ˈbɛrnɒdɛtt ˈsøːt͡ʃ]; born March 5, 1995 in Târgu Mureș, Romania) is a Romanian professional table tennis player.
Career
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.
In July 2012, she was ranked 5th in the ITTF World Junior Circuit.
Szocs won the singles event in the inaugural season of T2, beating Feng Tianwei in the final.
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.
Personal
Szőcs is of Hungarian descent. She has an older brother, Hunor, who is also a table tennis player.