Table tennis pro at 10

Table tennis pro at 10

Ai Fukuhara, a talented table tennis player who began playing the game when she was a toddler, was registered as a pro player March 20 at age 10. Fukuhara, who was singles runner-up in the junior division of last year's all-Japan table tennis championships, is the first professional among Japanese table tennis women players. ==Kyodo

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