Let $p$ be a prime number, it is shown that tiling and spectral sets coincide in $\mathbb Z_{ p^2}\times\mathbb Z_{ p^2}$ by considering equivalently symplectic spectral pairs. Symplectic structures appear naturally in time-frequency analysis and provides a perspective to reveal patterns that may not be so evident in the Euclidean setting. The main approach here is however still to count the size of the zero set and analyze its contents. Some auxiliary results concerning tiling sets and spectral sets of sizes $p$ and $p^{ 2m-1}$ in $\mathbb Z_{ p^m}\times\mathbb Z_{ p^m}$ are also presented.
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