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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 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.
George "Chester" Barnes (27 January 1947 – 18 March 2021) [1] was an English table tennis champion, who was England No. 1 player for many years during the 1960s and 1970s. [ 2 ] When he retired from professional table tennis he took up a post with the Martin Pipe racing stables as an assistant to the racehorse trainer.
Andrew Baggaley (born 26 February 1983) is a professional table tennis player from Milton Keynes.He is England's leading table tennis medal winner of all time in the Commonwealth Games, winning two gold medals in Manchester, England (2002), 1 silver medal in Melbourne, Australia (2006), 1 silver and 1 bronze medal in Delhi, India (2010) and 1 silver in Glasgow, Great Britain.
Diagram of a table tennis table showing the official dimensions. The table is 2.74 m (9.0 ft) long, 1.525 m (5.0 ft) wide, and 76 cm (2.5 ft) high with any continuous material so long as the table yields a uniform bounce of about 23 cm (9.1 in) when a standard ball is dropped onto it from a height of 30 cm (11.8 in), or about 77%.
Kelly Sibley (born 21 May 1988) is a former professional table tennis player and current coach from England.Sibley won the singles, girls doubles and mixed doubles at the UK Junior Championships and has represented England at senior level at the Commonwealth Games, European Championships and World Championships.
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The tables below are the English representatives for the men's and women's teams during the World Table Tennis Championships also known as the Swaythling Cup and Corbillon Cup. [ 1 ] Men's team (Swaythling Cup)