Bernadette Cynthia Szőcs (, born 5 March 1995) is a Romanian professional table tennis player of Hungarian ethnicity.
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.
In April 2024, she reached a career-high singles ranking of world No. 8 by ITTF/WTT.
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.
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. She was suspended in 2017 and signed with CSA Steaua București in 2019.
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.
Personal life Szőcs has an older brother, Hunor, who is also a table tennis player.
Singles titles Year Tournament Final opponent Score Ref2017ITTF Challenge, Brazil Open Audrey Zarif4–02018Europe Top 16 Li Jie4–12023European Games Xiaoxin Yang4–3
Best results by type of tournament
Singles Her best ranking in singles was No. 8 in the world, obtained in April 2024.
European Table Tennis Championships: Silver medal (2024) European Games: Champion (2023) WTT Contender: Silver medal (Lima 2023) WTT Star Contender: Quarterfinals (Ljubljana 2023, Bangkok 2024) WTT Champions: Quarterfinals (Macau 2022, Frankfurt 2023, Macao 2023, Incheon 2024) Grand Smash: Round of 16 (Singapore 2025) WTT Cup Finals: Bronze medal (Fukuoka 2024) Table Tennis World Cup: Round of 16 (Chengdu 2018, Chengdu 2019, Weihai 2020, Macau 2024, Macau 2025) World Table Tennis Championships: Round of 16 (Houston 2021, Doha 2025) Olympic Games: Round of 16 (Paris 2024)
References
External links
Bernadette Szocs at Table Tennis Media
Bernadette Szocs at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics (archived, alternate link)