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Gold Coast Games' youngest athlete says playing for Wales has increased her ambition

TABLE tennis prodigy Anna Hursey says playing for Wales in the Commonwealth Games at the age of 11 has increased her ambition to “get to the top.”

Hursey, the youngest athlete competing in the Gold Coast Games, represented Wales in the team event and then in the singles and came away with two doubles wins and one win in the singles.

She helped Wales reach the quarter-finals of the team event, combining with Charlotte Carey to win doubles games against India and Pakistan, before beating Uganda’s Halima Nambozo in her first singles match.

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