Table Tennis Victoria congratulate the four Victorians who have been selected in a talented squad of table tennis players who will represent Australia at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games.

Six of the eight-strong able-bodied Table Tennis team have been named, with the final two positions, one male and one female, to be determined at the Australian Qualification Tournament for the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Adelaide next month.

The Victorians who have been selected in the squad are Jian Fang Lay, Nicholas Lum, Finn Luu and Dillon Chambers.

Jian Fang Lay, the remarkable 49-year-old mother of two, has won seven Commonwealth Games medals since her debut for Australia in Manchester 20 years ago.

Lay, who has been a standard bearer for Australian sport for more than two decades, brings great experience to a youthful team and will be striving for an historic gold after successful appearances at Manchester in 2002, Melbourne in 2006 and Glasgow in 2014. She has also competed in six Olympic Games.

Lay, who has four silver and three bronze medals on her Commonwealth Games CV, is excited by the opportunity to compete again at Birmingham and hoping to claim Australia’s first gold medal in table tennis.

“It is exciting to attend my sixth Commonwealth Games, I always love representing Australia on the world stage,” Lay said.

“It is a great group who will be competing with me and I know we will all be working hard between now and the Games to do our best in Birmingham.”

Sixteen-year-old Lum, from Melbourne, is an exciting prospect who is fast becoming one of the countries best talents, He recorded some terrific results on the European Tour late last year, claiming international Under-17 titles in Italy and the Czech Republic. If not winning, his mantra is to learn from every defeat and take the positives from those experiences.

Fellow Melburnian Finn Luu is a year older than Lum. He had an excellent junior career and has shown great promise in senior ranks, including a sixth placing at the Australian trials for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

Dillon Chambers, 24, rounds out the trio of Victorian males selected to compete for Australia at the Games and adds further seniority to the squad.

Also named in the squad was Yangzi Liu from NSW and Min Hyung Jee from Queensland.

Table Tennis Victoria CEO Gen Dohrmann was excited by the announcement.

“It’s great that four of the six squad members announced today are Victorian and a testament to our local clubs, associations and high performance program to continue producing such talent. We look forward to further squad selection announcements including the selection of the Para team,” said Dohrmann.

The able-bodied Table Tennis Team Members will compete in singles, doubles, mixed doubles and men's and women's teams events.

Up to eight Para-Table Tennis Team Members will be selected to represent Australia at the Games in Birmingham in the weeks ahead to become a 16-strong Australian Table Tennis squad.

The Para-Table Tennis Team Members will compete in Men's Singles Classes 3-5 and Men's Singles Classes 8-10 and Women's Singles Classes 3-5 and Women's Singles Classes 6-10.

Table Tennis was initially an optional event on the Commonwealth Games schedule and was first introduced at the Manchester 2002 Commonwealth Games. It’s proven so popular that it now has ‘Core Sport’ status, meaning it will remain on the schedule at all future Games.

The Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games will be held from Thursday 28 July to Monday 8 August with the Table Tennis competition to be conducted from Friday 29 July all the way through to Monday 8 August with the competition to be held at the National Exhibition Centre (NEC).