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The organisation was known as the English Table Tennis Association between 1927 and 2014 and has been affiliated to the ITTF (International Table Tennis Federation) since 1927. [4] [5] Table Tennis England is based at Milton Keynes, having moved from Hastings in March 2014. [6] It rebranded as Table Tennis England in May 2014.
The English National Table Tennis Championships are run by the English Table Tennis Association. The first championships were held in 1960. [ 1 ] Desmond Douglas has won the most singles titles with 11, [ 2 ] whilst the leading woman is Jill Parker-Hammersley-Shirley with seven singles titles.
The tournament was first held as the English Open in 1927 by the English Table Tennis Association.Apart from a wartime break in the early 1940s, the tournament was held every year until 1980, and then every two years until the early 1990s.
He won a bronze medal at the 1955 World Table Tennis Championships in the Swaythling Cup (men's team event) with Richard Bergmann, Brian Kennedy, Johnny Leach and Alan Rhodes and for England. [2] [3] He was a former England No 1, played in 100 internationals and won the Welsh Open in Cardiff in 1952. [4]
He became the national champion in the men's singles and men's doubles at the English National Table Tennis Championships. [4] [1] In 2022, he was selected for the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham where he competed in three events; the men's doubles, the mixed doubles and the men's team events. [2] [3]
Table tennis is one of the sports contested at the 2022 Commonwealth Games, held in Birmingham, England.This was the sixth staging of table tennis at the Commonwealth Games since its inclusion in 2002, and the second staging within England specifically.
He represented England at two World Table Tennis Championships in the Swaythling Cup (men's team event) from 2000-2001. [3] He won a gold medal at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in the doubles with Andrew Baggaley. He also won three English National Table Tennis Championships titles.