At 11 years old, Samuel Shwe’s junior world ranking is not far off his age.

And after a year full of medals and title triumphs, the Victoria Park schoolkid is looking to cement his growing reputation as one of Australia’s top young table tennis prospects.

Ranked 14th overall in the World Table Tennis’s under-11 rankings, Shwe’s exploits have caught the eye in cyberspace.

He boasts more than 16,000 followers on Instagram and over 13,000 on Facebook, but the school-aged star in the making is more than just social media metrics.

In September, he became the first Western Australian to win a World Table Tennis WTT Youth Contender when he triumphed in Varazdin in Croatia, shortly after winning a silver at the same event in Otocec.

He then won silver in the under-11 category at Perth’s inaug

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