Finn's Story
Finn Luu started playing Table Tennis at the age of six alongside his older brother Skyy, after being encouraged by his father Joe who played at the Loops Table Tennis Club in Melbourne.
His first major event would come in 2013 at the NSW Junior Open where he won six out of his eight matchups. Finn's junior career would take him to all corners of the globe, participating in five World Junior Championships as well as competing weekly across local, state and national events.
In 2019 he won his first of two Australian National Junior Championships, stringing together 22 wins out of 24 matchups, along with the Oceania Junior and Cadets Championship in Tonga in the same year. In 2020 Finn claimed bronze in the Czech Open, paving the way for his youth world table tennis debut in 2021.
Finn competed in five major international events in 2021 across the World Table Tennis circuit and the World Youth Championships. He found success in the contender series that year, bringing home a bronze medal on the Italian leg of the World Table Tennis Tour.
Then 2022 was Finn's biggest year to date and was full of accolades and firsts for the young Melbournian. This included victory in the Oceania Table Tennis Championships in the junior and men's doubles alongside Nicholas Lum. Finn also don the green and gold for the first time at a Commonwealth Games after being selected to compete in Birmingham.
There Finn reunited with Nicholas and reached the bronze medal play-off before going down to Singapore's Shao Feng Ethan Poh and Clarence Chew 3-1. He also made it to the quarter-finals in the mixed doubles alongside Yanzi Liu and was knocked out in the men's singles by eventual gold medallist Sharath Kamal (IND).
Finn and Nicholas Lum would backup their 2022 men's doubles continental success by winning the Oceania Table Tennis Championship in Townsville in 2023. Finn also clinced the 2023 Australian Table Tennis championship in the men's singles.
At the 2024 Olympic qualifiers he won seven of his eight matchups, losing the final to Hwan Bae.
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