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Two in-form teenagers are looking to make it big at the Liebherr 2013 World Table Tennis Championships in Paris (13-20th May).
Liam Pitchford, 19 years old from Chesterfield, and Sam Walker, 17 from Worksop, have been setting the benchmarks for English table tennis in 2013 and both hope to make a big impact in Paris next week.
Photographs of the England players (in Joola England kit) ahead of the Commonwealth Championships (New Delhi, India 5-10 May 2013) and the World Championships (Paris, France 13-20 May 2013).
English Open Press Release
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Olympian helps launch tables in Horley
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Pictures from the 2012/13 Senior National Championships including winners of Men’s Singles Liam Pitchford, Women’s Singles Kelly Sibley, Men’s Under 21s Sam Walker & Women’s Under 21s Tin-Tin Ho
For the first time in the history of the English Table Tennis Association the Cadet & Junior 6 Nations Championships in Preston this weekend will be streamed live on the internet.
In fact, excluding National Championships and internationals held in England, it will be the first domestic competition to be streamed online and available to all for free.
Nineteen-year-old Liam Pitchford is aiming to secure his maiden Men’s Singles title at the 54th English Senior National Table Tennis Championships in Sheffield this weekend.
The youngster from Derbyshire has already been a beaten finalist twice to fellow London 2012 Olympic Games team-mates Paul Drinkhall, 23 from Loftus, and Andrew Baggaley, 30 from Milton Keynes.
Five members of Team GB’s Table Tennis Squad will return to Sheffield to battle it out for the title of National Champion.
The three top seeds in the Men’s Singles, Paul Drinkhall, Liam Pitchford and Andrew Baggaley all ply their trade in the top European League in the German Bundesliga with both Drinkhall and Pitchford’s teams playing Champions League table tennis.
(Above - Ping! ‘takes-off at Heathrow Airport’)
Sport England funded table tennis project, Ping!, has been shortlisted for Sports Participation Event of the Year in the Sport Industry Awards 2013.
Following the “Women in Table Tennis 1988” Seminar organised by Jose Ransome and held in August 1988, the Women’s British League (WBL) was born, and the first weekend was held in April 1989 at Burton-on-Trent.
The WBL was the first-ever, and still the only, all female ETTA table tennis competition.
Newly engaged English number 1s Paul Drinkhall and Joanna Parker will hope to be crowned as respective National Champions at the upcoming English Senior National Table Tennis Championships, Ponds Forge, Sheffield 1st-3rd March 2013.
The pair, who were engaged over the Christmas period, will hope to justify their number one rankings by completing a unique double in Sheffield.
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