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English Table Tennis Association
Table Tennis England, formerly the English Table Tennis Association, is the national governing body for table tennis in England, responsible for representing, coordinating, administering, marketing and developing the sport. Most of its annual income comes from government grants and Sport England funding.Our Work – "Sports we invest in" . ''Sport England''. 20 May 2014 Table Tennis England runs three separate national championships every year – for U10-U13 players; cadets and juniors; and seniors – as well as operating the British League, a Grand Prix series and other irregularly held tournaments, including the English Open. History It was founded as the Table Tennis Association in 1921. The organisation was known as the English Ta ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Milton Keynes
Milton Keynes ( ) is a city status in the United Kingdom, city in Buckinghamshire, England, about north-west of London. At the 2021 Census, the population of Milton Keynes urban area, its urban area was 264,349. The River Great Ouse forms the northern boundary of the urban area; a tributary, the River Ouzel, meanders through its linear parks and balancing lakes. Approximately 25% of the urban area is parkland or woodland and includes two Site of Special Scientific Interest, Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSIs). The city is made up of many different districts. In the 1960s, the government decided that a further generation of new towns in the United Kingdom, new towns in the South East England , south east of England was needed to relieve housing congestion in London. Milton Keynes was to be the biggest yet, with a population of 250,000 and area of . At designation, its area incorporated the existing towns of Bletchley, Fenny Stratford, Wolverton and Stony Stratford, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johnny Leach
John Alfred Leach MBE (20 November 1922 – 5 June 2014) was a British table tennis player, coach, and author. He began competing at a relatively old age, 17, before serving in World War II. During the war, he greatly elevated his game and, in 1946, achieved a world ranking. In 1949, Leach became Great Britain's second World Champion singles player. After winning the title, he achieved widespread fame within the United Kingdom, appearing on television and writing for ''News of the World''. Two years later, Leach added a second singles title. In 1953, he was part of the team that won Great Britain's first, and as of 2023 only, team World Championship. He also won 13 bronze and silver World championship medals between 1947 and 1955. As of 2014, Leach is just one of 11 players from any country to win two singles championships. After Leach retired in 1965, he remained active in the sport. He was England's national coach for eight years and served as president of the En ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vera Thomas
Vera Sybil Thomas (née Dace; 3 December 1921 – 9 July 1995) was an English international table tennis and tennis player. Table tennis career She won seven medals at the World Table Tennis Championships including three gold medals; two in the team events and one as a member of the winning doubles team in the 1948 World Table Tennis Championships with Peggy Franks. She also won three English Open titles. Tennis career As a tennis player she competed in 15 editions of the Wimbledon Championships between 1946 and 1961. Her best result in the singles was reaching the fourth round in 1948 in which she lost to Nelly Landry. Personal life She married Arthur Thomas in 1947 and became Vera Thomas-Dace. See also * List of table tennis players * List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists A list is a set of discrete items of information collected and set forth in some format for utility, entertainment, or other purposes. A list may be memorialized in any number of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ann Jones (tennis)
Ann Shirley Jones, (born Adrianne Haydon; 17 October 1938), also known as Ann Haydon-Jones, is a British former table tennis and lawn tennis champion. She won eight Grand Slam tennis championships in her career: three in singles, three in women's doubles, and two in mixed doubles. As of 2023, she serves as a vice president of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club. Career Table tennis Jones was born in Kings Heath, Birmingham, England. Her parents were prominent table tennis players, her father, Adrian Haydon, having been English number 1 and a competitor at world championships between 1928 and 1953. Ann, as a young girl, also took up the game, participating in five world championships in the 1950s, the best result being losing finalist in singles, doubles and mixed doubles all in Stockholm 1957. Soon after this she wrote the book ''Tackle Table Tennis This Way''. Jones also won two English Open titles in women's doubles as Haydon. Tennis Jones was also a powerful l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karenza Mathews
Karenza Mathews (née Smith) is a female former international table tennis player from England. Table tennis career She represented England at five World Table Tennis Championships in the Corbillon Cup (women's team event) from 1967 to 1975. She also reached the quarter-finals of the Women's Doubles with Mary Shannon-Wright and the Mixed Doubles with Denis Neale in 1967. Karenza was England number one and won 231 senior caps and won a bronze medal A bronze medal in sports and other similar areas involving competition is a medal made of bronze awarded to the third-place finisher of contests or competitions such as the Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games, etc. The outright winner receives ... in the team event at the European Table Tennis Championships in 1970. She won an English Open title and 15 English National Table Tennis Championships titles. Personal life She married Kenneth Mathews on 18 May 1968. She then had two daughters who both married and have had a daug ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Linda Jarvis-Howard
Linda Jarvis (née Howard) is a female former international table tennis player from England. Table tennis career She represented England at four World Table Tennis Championships in the Corbillon Cup (women's team event) from 1973 to 1981. She won 12 English National Table Tennis Championships titles. Personal life Linda married Nicky Jarvis in 1979 and their son is professional footballer Matt Jarvis Matthew Thomas Jarvis (born 22 May 1986) is an English former professional Association football, footballer who played as a Midfielder#Winger, winger. Jarvis began his professional career with Gillingham F.C., Gillingham, making his English F .... Her sister Susan Howard was also an English international. See also * List of England players at the World Team Table Tennis Championships References English female table tennis players Living people Year of birth missing (living people) {{UK-tabletennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jill Parker-Hammersley-Shirley
Jill Parker-Hammersley-Shirley is a former female table tennis player from England. Table tennis From 1972 to 1982 she won several medals in singles, doubles, and team events in the Table Tennis European Championships and in the World Table Tennis Championships She was ranked number one in England during the early 1970s. She also won four English Open (table tennis), English Open titles. Personal life She changed her name from Jill Shirley to Jill Hammersley after marrying Nicky Hammersley on 3 July 1970. She later married fellow England international Donald Parker (table tennis), Donald Parker and they had two children. Their daughter Katy Parker (table tennis), Katy Parker represented England at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in the Table tennis at the 2002 Commonwealth Games, table tennis mixed doubles and their son Adam was a semi-professional cricketer. See also * List of table tennis players * List of England players at the World Team Table Tennis Championships References< ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alison Broe-Gordon
Alison may refer to: People * Alison (given name), including a list of people with the name * Alison (surname) Music * ''Alison'' (album), aka ''Excuse Me'', a 1975 album by Australian singer Alison MacCallum * "Alison" (song), song by Elvis Costello * " Alison (C'est ma copine à moi)", a 1993 single by Jordy * "Alison", 1994 single by Slowdive Places * Alison, New South Wales, suburb of the Central Coast region in NSW, Australia * Alison Sound, an inlet on the Central Coast of British Columbia, Canada * Point Alison, Alberta, a summer village in Alberta, Canada Other uses * ''Alison'' (film), a South African documentary film * Alison (company), an Irish educational technology company * Alison, common name for plants of the genus ''Alyssum'', including: ** Sweet alison, a decorative plant * ''Alison'' (katydid) a genus in the Hexacentrinae subfamily of bush crickets See also * Alisoun (other) * Alisson (other) * Allison (other) * Allisson (d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carole Knight
Carole Knight, married name Moore, is a female former international table tennis player from England. Table tennis career She represented England at the 1975 World Table Tennis Championships and 1977 World Table Tennis Championships in the Corbillon Cup (women's team event). She won seven English National Table Tennis Championships, (three singles, three doubles and one mixed doubles as Carole Moore) and two European Table Tennis Championships The European Table Tennis Championships is an international table tennis competition for the national teams of the member associations of the European Table Tennis Union (ETTU). First held in 1958, the ETTU organised the European Championships ev ... medals. See also * List of England players at the World Team Table Tennis Championships References English female table tennis players 1957 births Living people 20th-century English sportswomen {{UK-tabletennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karen Witt
Karen Witt is a female former international table tennis player from England. Table tennis career She represented England at four successive World Table Tennis Championships, from 1979 to 1985, in the Corbillon Cup (women's team event). She was the Commonwealth Individual Ladies' Singles Champion in 1985. She won a European Table Tennis Championships The European Table Tennis Championships is an international table tennis competition for the national teams of the member associations of the European Table Tennis Union (ETTU). First held in 1958, the ETTU organised the European Championships ev ... medal and won three English National Table Tennis Championships including the singles in 1983. Her representative county was Berkshire. See also * List of England players at the World Team Table Tennis Championships References English female table tennis players Living people Year of birth missing (living people) {{UK-tabletennis-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lisa Lomas
Lisa Jane Lomas-Bellinger ( Bellinger, born 9 March 1967) is a British former table tennis player. She competed in the 1992 and 1996 Summer Olympics. Career Lomas won a silver medal at the 1992 European Table Tennis Championships, losing to Bettine Vriesekoop in the final. She was eliminated in the group stages of the women's singles competition at the 1996 Summer Olympics The 1996 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, also known as Atlanta 1996 and commonly referred to as the Centennial Olympic Games) were an international multi-sport event held from July 19 to August 4, 1996, in Atlanta, .... Lomas won the women's singles event at the English National Table Tennis Championships four times, and the women's doubles event nine times. Lomas and Jackie Bellinger hold the record for most balls hit back and forth in 60 seconds; they set the record of 173 in 1993. See also * List of England players at the World Team Table Tennis Championships Referenc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Donaldson (table Tennis)
Andrew Donaldson may refer to: * Andrew Donaldson (Scottish footballer) (born 1884) * Andy Donaldson (1925–1987), English footballer * Andrew Brown Donaldson (1940–1919), British artist {{hndis, Donaldson, Andrew ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
