Doris Lucy Emdin (1905-1967), was a female
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table tennis
Table tennis, also known as ping-pong and whiff-whaff, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball, also known as the ping-pong ball, back and forth across a table using small solid rackets. It takes place on a hard table div ...
player.
Table tennis career
After being eliminated in the first round of the
singles event of the
1934 World Championships, she reached the quarter-finals of the
1938 World Championships in the same event.
Personal life
Her younger sister
Dora Emdin
Dora M Emdin (4 August 1912 – 9 April 1945) was a female English international table tennis player.
Table tennis career
She won a bronze medal at the 1934 World Table Tennis Championships in the women's singles.
She won another bronze at t ...
was also a notable table tennis international.
She married Sidney Hearn in 1956 and died in 1967.
See also
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List of table tennis players
This list of table tennis players is alphabetically ordered by surname. The main source of the information included in this page is the official International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) database. More detailed information about their careers i ...
References
1905 births
1967 deaths
English female table tennis players
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