Annual Report 12/13 - The English Table Tennis Association
Annual Report 12/13 - The English Table Tennis Association
Annual Report 12/13 - The English Table Tennis Association
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Team GB<br />
<strong>Annual</strong> Snapshot<br />
September<br />
<strong>The</strong> 20<strong>12</strong> Paralympic Games took place in<br />
September with more resounding success<br />
for the Team GB athletes. Will Bayley was<br />
the star of the show with a silver medal in<br />
Men’s Class 7, before later returning to help<br />
Aaron McKibbin and Ross Wilson to secure<br />
a team bronze in Class 6-8.<br />
Two more medals came for Team GB<br />
with Welshman Paul Davies securing an<br />
excellent bronze in Men’s Class 1, while<br />
‘Comeback Queens’ Jane Campbell and<br />
Sara Head recovered from 2-0 down<br />
to beat Italy 3-2 and secure their own<br />
bronze medals in Women’s Class 1-3.<br />
At the end of the month, the Liebherr<br />
Men’s World Cup descended upon<br />
Liverpool with Paul Drinkhall and<br />
Liam Pitchford competing for<br />
England in front of a home crowd.<br />
China’s Ma Long was the eventual<br />
Champion following a memorable<br />
tournament at the Echo Arena.<br />
October<br />
Europe’s first purpose-built ‘Social Ping<br />
Pong Club’ was launched in London.<br />
‘Bounce’ opened on the 1st of the month<br />
on the same site where table tennis was<br />
invented back in 1901 and boasting a<br />
restaurant, bar and <strong>13</strong> custom designed<br />
Butterfly Ping Pong <strong>Table</strong>s including the<br />
London Olympic 20<strong>12</strong> <strong>Table</strong> and World<br />
Championship <strong>Table</strong>.<br />
Meanwhile Liam Pitchford lived up to<br />
his ‘giant-killing’ tag by beating Robert<br />
Gardos (AUT, 32) 4-2 at the European<br />
Championships in Denmark where the<br />
19-year-old made the last 32.<br />
Also in October, Tin-Tin Ho became the first<br />
<strong>English</strong> girl to be selected for Europe in the<br />
World Cadet Challenge where she eventually<br />
finished sixth in the singles while helping<br />
Europe to make the team final.<br />
Bounce<br />
November<br />
In November the social<br />
side of table tennis was<br />
back in the spotlight<br />
as the ‘Art of Change’<br />
exhibition at Southbank<br />
Centre’s Hayward Gallery<br />
featured Chinese artist<br />
Wang Jianwei’s ‘Surplus<br />
Value’ corrugated table<br />
tennis table.<br />
With the Sky Sports cameras<br />
in attendance, Team GB stars<br />
Kelly Sibley and David Wetherill<br />
‘challenged’ the table for a<br />
feature that appeared on Sky<br />
Sports News’ Get Involved series<br />
alongside Andrew Baggaley’s<br />
school exhibition.<br />
Kelly Sibley & David Wetherill<br />
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