吳柏男

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Ng Pak Nam was born on 18 August 1998 and comes from Jinjiang, Fujian. He trained in Shanghai for five years before joining the Hong Kong team and is a right-handed shakehand attacking player who is active in both singles and doubles. In 2016 he broke through, winning men's singles bronze at the world junior championships in South Africa and finishing runner-up in men's singles at the Hong Kong open individual championship. His senior world ranking peaked at No.56 (March 2018) and his under-21 ranking at No.3 (September 2018). In 2019 he won men's doubles bronze at the Asian Table Tennis Championships. At the Tokyo 2020 Olympics he was named as a reserve (P-card) member of the men's team for the Hong Kong, China delegation, and in 2022 he was selected for the Hong Kong team at the Chengdu world team championships. At club level he plays for the Hon Kit first-division team alongside Lam Siu Hang, helping it finish runners-up in the Hong Kong open championship in 2018, and he is listed among the Hong Kong Sports Institute's elite athletes as an important member of the men's team.