Hend Zaza, an 11-year-old Syrian table tennis player, has qualified for the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics. She defeated Lebanon's Mariana Sahakian, 42, 4-3 in the women's finals at the West Asia ...

The youngest Olympian competing in Tokyo is Hend Zaza, 12, a table tennis player ... made history as the youngest athlete at the Tokyo Olympics. She was born on January 1, 2009 in Syria.

Zaza fell to Austria's 39-year-old Liu Jia in straight sets: 4-11, 9 - 11, 3 - 11, 5 - 11. Though the pre-teen held a 6-2 lead during the second game -- potentially turning the tables -- the Austrian ...