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Hend Zaza (; born 1 January 2009) is a Syrian table tennis player. She qualified to play in the 2020 Summer Olympics in 2021 in Tokyo, through the West Asia Olympic qualifying tournament held in Jordan in 2020. At the age of 12, she was the youngest person to compete in Olympic table tennis, and the fifth-youngest person to compete in the modern Olympics. She was the youngest competitor at the 2020 games, and the youngest Olympic competitor since Beatrice Huștiu, a Romanian figure-skater who competed in 1968.
The Chinese Olympic Committee invited Zaza to train in China after qualifying for the 2020 Summer Olympics.
Zaza carried the Syrian flag in the Parade of Nations in the opening ceremony of the 2020 Olympics, along with equestrian competitor Ahmad Hamcho.
In the table tennis women's singles she was defeated in the preliminary round on 24 July 2021 by Liu Jia, a Chinese-born Austrian player aged 39 who had previously competed in every Summer Olympics since 2000. The score was 11:4, 11:9, 11:3, 11:5. After the match Zaza said:
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