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Patty Martinez
Courtesy of Tim Boggan Patty Martinez began winning tournaments when she was a little girl in San Diego wearing long, ankle-length dresses and patty-caking the ball back with gum-chewing, not to say exasperatingly casual, regularity. Continuing to play with an anachronistic hard-rubber bat, she grew up to win three U.S. Open Women’s Singles Championships, not…
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Dal-Joon Lee
Courtesy of Tim Boggan Playing for South Korea in the 1958 Asian Games was one, Lee Dal-Joon. He posted a 3-9 record in the Team ties, and in the Singles lost a 19 in the 5th match to Hong Kong’s Lau Suk Fong, a veteran of the ’56 World’s. Not too impressive, nothing to write…
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Fred Danner
Courtesy of Tim Boggan This year’s Mark Matthews Lifetime Achievement Award goes to Fred Danner. For a quarter of a century Fred has made countless local, state, regional, national, and international contributions to our Sport, and is currently near to completing a mammoth version of his Memoirs, calledAdventures of a Ping-Pong Diplomat. Having enrolled at…
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Insook Bhushan
Courtesy of Tim Boggan From her beginning triumph in North America–when she won the Women’s Singles at the 1974 Toronto CNE–Insook showed the remarkable poise that anyone watching her for the next two decades would have to admire. And what a game she had–she varied the spin so beautifully, and, to complement her near impregnable…
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Patty Martinez-Wasserman
Patty Martinez began winning tournaments when she was a little girl in San Diego wearing long, ankle-length dresses and patty-caking the ball back with gum-chewing, not to say exasperatingly casual, regularity. Continuing to play with an anachronistic hard-rubber bat, she grew up to win three U.S. Open Women’s Singles Championships, not only because of that…
US Table Tennis Hall of Fame
Recognizing athletes and contributors in the sport of Table Tennis in the United States