Table tennis player Hend Zaza will soon enter the Olympics.

She is the youngest participant in the games - only twelve years old.

She enters the tournament the night before Saturday Swedish time.

Zaza comes from Syria but plays for the Olympic refugee team.

- When I was five or six years old, my brother won a championship.

Then I decided to do as he did, and started training, she tells Al Jazeera.

- He said that if I worked hard, it was possible to go far.

It was during the summer games in Rio that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) for the first time selected ten people for the team.

In Tokyo, the squad consists of 29 athletes and six of them are doing their second Olympics.

Hend Zaza, who was born on January 1, 2009, will be the youngest player in Olympic table tennis to date and the fifth youngest to participate in the Games of all time.

She is also the first Syrian table tennis player to win national titles at all levels.

She qualified for the Tokyo Olympics in February 2020 after beating 42-year-old Mariana Sahakian from Lebanon in the Asian qualifier.