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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…
US Table Tennis Hall of Fame
Recognizing athletes and contributors in the sport of Table Tennis in the United States