Bernadette Szőcs

{{Infobox table tennis player

| name = Bernadette Szőcs

| image = 20220818 European Championships Munich 2022 Bernadette Szocs 850 0193.jpg

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| caption = Szőcs at the 2022 European Championships

| fullname = Bernadette Cynthia Szőcs

| nickname = Bernie

| residence = Bremen, Germany

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1995|03|05|df=y}}

| birth_place = Târgu Mureș, Romania

| equipment = Tibhar

| hrank = 8 (16 April 2024) {{cite web |url=https://results.ittf.link/index.php?option=com_fabrik&view=list&listid=49&Itemid=322 |title=Rank History |website=results.ittf.link |access-date=25 February 2024}}

| crank = 14 (18 February 2025){{cite web |url=https://worldtabletennis.com/playerDescription?playerId=111012 |access-date=4 July 2023 |title=World Table Tennis }}

| height = 1.59 m{{cite web |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/131525 |title=Bernadette Szőcs |website=olympedia.org |access-date=27 June 2023}}

| weight = 48 kg

| club = {{ubl

| Ahmedabad SG Pipers

| (2024–present)

| Dabang Delhi TTC

| (2019)

| Falcons TTC

| (2018)

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| show-medals = yes

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{{MedalSilver|2019 Minsk|Table tennis at the 2019 European Games – Mixed doubles}}

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Bernadette Cynthia Szőcs (born 5 March 1995) is a professional table tennis player from Romania.{{cite web |url=https://www.cosr.ro/sportiv/bernadette-cynthia-szocs |title=BERNADETTE CYNTHIA SZOCS |website=cosr.ro |language=ro |access-date=27 June 2023}}{{cite web |url=http://www.realitatea.net/multipla-campioana-nationala-si-europeana-bernadette-szocs-implineste-vineri-15-ani_703376.html |title=Biography |publisher=realitatea.net |access-date=4 January 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110203080711/http://www.realitatea.net/multipla-campioana-nationala-si-europeana-bernadette-szocs-implineste-vineri-15-ani_703376.html |archive-date=3 February 2011}}

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

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.{{cite web |url=https://www.punctul.ro/se-vrea-recompensarea-campioanei-europene-targumureseanca-szocs-bernadette-cu-150-000-de-lei/ |title=Se vrea recompensarea campioanei europene, târgumureșeanca Szőcs Bernadette, cu 15.000 de lei |publisher=Punctul |date=16 November 2017 |language=ro}}

In July 2012, she was ranked 5th in the ITTF World Junior Circuit.{{cite web |url=http://www.ittf.com/_front_page/ittf1.asp?category=u18_wr |title=Under 18 World ranking |publisher=International Table Tennis Federation |date=4 July 2012 |access-date=11 January 2012 |archive-date=8 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160308010303/http://www.ittf.com/_front_page/ittf1.asp?category=u18_wr |url-status=dead}}

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.{{cite web |url=https://timponline.ro/bernadette-szocs-68-cetatean-onoare-bistritei-viata-plina-realizari/ |title=Bernadette Szocs, oficial al 68-lea cetățean de onoare |publisher=Timp online |date=22 February 2018}} She was suspended in 2017 and signed with CSA Steaua București in 2019.{{cite web |url=https://www.sportulbistritean.ro/berni-bistriteanca-spulbera-tot-la-nationale-gloria-3-medalii-csm-praful-de-pe-toba/ |title=Berni, bistrițeanca, spulberă tot la naționale! Gloria- 3 medalii, CSM – praful de pe tobă! |publisher=Sportul bistritean |date=27 March 2023 |language=ro}}

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.{{Cite web |url=https://edgesandnets.com/2021/03/03/wtt-doha-day-1-recap-and-day-2-preview/ |title=WTT Doha Day 1 Recap and Day 2 Preview |date=3 March 2021 |website=edgesandnets.com |access-date=3 March 2021 |archive-date=4 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210304075149/https://edgesandnets.com/2021/03/03/wtt-doha-day-1-recap-and-day-2-preview/ |url-status=dead}}

Personal life

Szőcs has an older brother, Hunor, who is also a table tennis player.{{cite web |url=https://www.ziaruldesport.ro/articol_248_zds_pg_0.htm |title=Interviu cu Hunor Szocs: "Obiectivul meu este mai mare decât a fi unul dintre cei mai buni jucători români" |publisher=Ziarul de Sport |date=15 April 2012 |language=ro}}

Singles titles

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! Year

! Tournament

! Final opponent

! Score

! Ref

2017

|ITTF Challenge, Brazil Open

|{{flagicon|FRA}} Audrey Zarif

|4–0

|{{cite web |url=https://www.ittf.com/2017/05/07/first-bernadette-szocs-victory-sao-paulo/ |title=First for Bernadette Szocs, victory in São Paulo |website=ittf.com |date=7 May 2017 |access-date=28 June 2023}}

2018

|Europe Top 16

|{{flagicon|NED}} Li Jie

|4–1

|{{cite web |url=https://www.ittf.com/2018/02/04/review-day-two-timo-boll-bernadette-szocs-claim-titles-emotional-final-day-montreux/ |title=Review Day Two: Timo Boll and Bernadette Szocs claim titles on emotional final day in Montreux |website=ittf.com |date=4 February 2018 |access-date=28 June 2023}}

2023

|European Games

|{{flagicon|MON}} Xiaoxin Yang

|4–3

|{{cite news |url=https://www.agerpres.ro/english/2023/06/27/table-tennis-2023-european-games-bernadette-szocs-wins-gold-medal-in-women-s-singles--1131246 |title=Table tennis - 2023 European Games: Bernadette Szocs wins gold medal in women's singles |work=AGERPRES |date=27 June 2023 |access-date=28 June 2023}}

References

External links

{{ITTF|111012|Bernadette Szocs}}
{{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140701181256/http://www.ittfranking.com/cgi-bin/ttplayer.cgi?number=111012&lang=0&format=summary |date=1 July 2014 |title=Bernadette Szocs at ittfranking.com}}
{{Olympics.com|bernadette-szocs|Bernadette Szocs|org_archive=20210416200831}}
[https://olympics.com/en/paris-2024/athlete/bernadette-szocs_1541478 Bernadette Szocs] at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics
{{COSR|new_id=szocs-bernadette-cynthia|name=Bernadette Cynthia Szocs|old_id=bernadette-cynthia-szocs}}
{{Instagram|name=Szocs Bernadette Cynthia}}

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Category:Romanian female table tennis players

Category:Living people

Category:1995 births

Category:Sportspeople from Târgu Mureș

Category:Romanian sportspeople of Hungarian descent

Category:Table tennis players at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics

Category:Table tennis players at the 2015 European Games

Category:Table tennis players at the 2019 European Games