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He competed as an English table tennis international, and was the English number one for many years. He is a three-time men's singles champion at the Commonwealth Table Tennis Championships [ 1 ] (in 1997, 2000 and 2001), and also competed for Great Britain in two Olympic Games : at Barcelona in 1992 and at Sydney in 2000.
China has been the most successful nation in Olympic table tennis, winning 66 medals (37 gold, 21 silver, and 8 bronze). Since 1992, Chinese players have won at least one medal in every event. At the 2008 Games, China achieved an unprecedented medal sweep in both the men's and women's singles tournaments, [ 6 ] and won both team tournaments.
The phrase "Table Tennis" was created because the name "Ping Pong" had already been trademarked by Parker Brothers. [7] Though the legal name of the USATT remains the "United States Table Tennis Association, Inc.", the non-profit corporation adopted "USA Table Tennis" as their d/b/a name effective 1994. [8]
Ariel Yenhua Hsing (born November 29, 1995) [2] is an American table tennis player who competed in the 2012 Summer Olympics.. Hsing became the youngest U.S. table tennis national champion in history in 2010 at age 15.
Held since 1976, the annual U.S. National Table Tennis Championships (often referred to as the U.S. Closed) is a closed tournament that only U.S. citizens may enter. It is held by USA Table Tennis (USATT). The U.S. Nationals also serves as a qualifying tournament for USA Table Tennis National Team Trials and determines the USA Table Tennis ...
The annual U.S. Open is the oldest currently running table tennis tournament in the United States. [1] It attracts over 600 athletes annually. [2] The first events were actually run by either the New York Table Tennis Club or the American Ping Pong Association. The first USA Table Tennis (USTTA) [3] tournament was held in 1934.
Although both a "Table Tennis Association" and a "Ping Pong Association" existed by 1910, [12] a new Table Tennis Association was founded in 1921, and renamed the English Table Tennis Association in 1926. [13]
[7] [8] He was the youngest player on the first U.S. table tennis team to compete in 1971's “Ping-pong diplomacy” tour to China. [9] Cowan studied at UCLA and Santa Monica College (1969 to 1972). [2] [10] He became a junior high school teacher. [2] He was diagnosed, variously, as being bipolar and schizophrenic. [2] He was married briefly. [2]