Doo Hoi Kem (; born 27 November 1996) is a Hong Kong

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player. She won two medals at the

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and she was a member of Hong Kong women's team at the 2014 World Team Championships. In 2015, she won a bronze medal in mixed doubles event with

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at the World Championships. In 2021, she also won bronze in the women's team event with

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and

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at the

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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

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, Doo competed in the team event along with

and

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. They lost to Germany in the quarterfinals.

2021

In the

, Doo reached the quarter-finals in the women's single event where she lost to top seed

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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). Doo, along with her teammates

and

, won bronze in the women's team event, defeating

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with 3–1 in the bronze medal match.

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.

References

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