After ten national junior championships littered with medals Antonia Zhang is ready join the senior ranks of Australia's leading table tennis talent.
Now 18-years-old, she grew up watching her mother Gina - who arrived in 1987 to learn English - rise to number one.
Gina's exceptional table tennis skills enabled her to stay, becoming the first Chinese national to earn temporary residency for non-political purposes.
Gina went onto became an elite coach, and Antonia says it was inevitable she'd take up the sport one day.
Antonia's swag of medals and awards is set to grow as she eyes a place on the Commonwealth and Olympic Games Table Tennis teams. Source: SBS
"I was upstairs studying and she'd be in the garage coaching... it made me play," she told SBS World News.
Gina believes Antonia can also become the number one player in Australia, but only if she continues to work hard.
"She's improved a lot, but if she spends more time training it will be better," she says.
Antonia finished in third place at the national junior titles in Tasmania last week. Next stop for the Macquarie University student is the Summer Universiade [World University Games] which take place in Taipei on August 19.
She's in the first year of her Security Studies and Criminology course, but her sporting ambitions are focused on the 2018 Gold Coast Commonwealth Games and then its all eyes on the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
"The Olympics is the event I most want to go to," says Antonia.
Her connection with China is strong.
She goes back every year for summer holidays and while there she attends a table tennis boarding school to refine her skills.
And according to Antonia, her best days are yet to come.
"I haven't played the best I think I can actually play."
"The Olympics is the event I most want to go to" Antonia Zhang. Source: SBS World News
