Doo Hoi Kem

In this Chinese name, the family name is Doo.

Doo Hoi Kem (Chinese: 杜凱琹; born 27 November 1996) is a Hong Kong table tennis player.^[3] She won two medals at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics and she was a member of Hong Kong women's team at the 2014 World Team Championships.^[4] In 2015, she won a bronze medal in mixed doubles event with Wong Chun Ting at the World Championships. In 2021, she also won bronze in the women's team event with Lee Ho Ching and Minnie Soo Wai Yam at the 2020 Summer Olympics.^[5]

Doo Hoi Kem
Doo at the 2017 Asian Table Tennis Championships
Personal information
Native name	杜凱琹 (jyutping: dou6 hoi2 kam4)
Nationality	Hong Konger
Born	(1996-11-27) 27 November 1996 (age 26) Hong Kong
Playing style	Right-handed, shakehand grip
Highest ranking	7 (26 July 2022)^[1]
Current ranking	9 (6 March 2023)^[2]
Club	Kinoshita Abyell Kanagawa
Height	1.66 m (5 ft 5 in)^[3]
Weight	59 kg (130 lb)
Medal record Women's table tennis Representing  Hong Kong, China Olympic Games 2020 Tokyo Team World Championships 2014 Tokyo Team 2015 Suzhou Mixed doubles 2017 Düsseldorf Mixed doubles 2018 Halmstad Team Asian Games 2018 Jakarta Team Asian Championships 2013 Busan Doubles 2015 Pattaya Team 2017 Wuxi Team 2019 Yogyakarta Mixed doubles

Doo Hoi Kem
Traditional Chinese	杜凱琹
Simplified Chinese	杜凯琹
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Dù Kǎiqín Yue: Cantonese Jyutping Dou^6 Hoi^2 Kam^4

Early years

Doo studied at Tseung Kwan O Catholic Primary School and Heep Yunn School in her early years. After completing Secondary Three at the age of 15, she chose to become a full-time athlete and entered the Hong Kong Institute of Sports for training. The coaches are the former Chinese table tennis team and the Hong Kong table tennis team. She was the winner of the 2021 President’s Certificate of Appreciation (Sports).

Career

2016

At the 2016 Summer Olympics, Doo competed in the team event along with Lee Ho Ching and Tie Ya Na. They lost to Germany in the quarterfinals.^[6]

2021

In the 2020 Summer Olympics, Doo reached the quarter-finals in the women's single event where she lost to top seed Chen Meng after leading 2–0. In one of the more interesting wrinkles of the tournament, play was stopped mid-game in Doo's match against Chen so that Doo could cover a logo on her pants with duct tape (due to Olympic sponsorship rules).^[7] Doo, along with her teammates Lee Ho Ching and Minnie Soo Wai Yam, won bronze in the women's team event, defeating Germany with 3–1 in the bronze medal match.^[5]

Achievements

Hong Kong Sports Stars Awards

Doo won one of the Hong Kong Junior Sports Stars Awards in 2014. As a member of the Hong Kong National Table Tennis Team (mixed doubles), she was also a two-time winner of the Hong Kong Sports Star Awards for Team Event, both in 2015 and 2017.^[8]

References

1. "ITTF Table Tennis World Ranking Women's Singles 2022 Week #30". ittf.com. 26 July 2022. Retrieved 26 July 2022.
2. "ITTF Table Tennis World Ranking". ittf.com. Retrieved 26 July 2022.
3. "Athlete's Profile". 2014 Incheon Asian Games Organizing Committee. Archived from the original on 1 May 2015. Retrieved 1 May 2015.
4. "DOO Hoi Kem (HKG)". ittf.com. Retrieved 1 May 2015.
5. "Table Tennis-Hong Kong bags first women's team bronze". Reuters. from the original on 2021-08-05. Retrieved 5 August 2021.
6. "Lee Ho-ching and Minnie Soo drop out of school and win Olympic medal". The Standard. 2021-08-05.
7. "The Olympic Table Tennis Singles Quarterfinals In Memes". edgesandnets.com. 2021-07-28. Retrieved 2021-07-29.
8. "Past Winners of the Hong Kong Sports Stars Awards". from the original on 2021-05-07. Retrieved 8 August 2021.

External links

• Doo Hoi Kem at Olympedia