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Attila Malek
Courtesy of Tim Boggan Five-time Hungarian World Singles Champion Victor Barna once advised, “Don’t take up table tennis too young. Fourteen is quite young enough.” Our next inductee to be honored tonight, Attila Malek, who immigrated to the U.S. from Barna’s hometown, Budapest, might have taken the Master’s highly suspect suggestion to heart, for he…
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Bob Green
Courtesy of Tim Boggan In the late 1930’s, when organized table tennis was still in its bright-hoped childhood, Bob Green was not only one of the top half-dozen players in Indiana, and one about to quickly improve, he was also beginning his 15-year stint–initially in Indianapolis, then primarily in Columbus, Ohio–as manager of a successful…
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Yinghua Cheng
Courtesy of Tim Boggan Cheng Yinghua (or just Chen, as his familiars–that is, everybody–at his Gaithersberg Club comfortably call him), is of course, at age 42, our three-time National Champion. Many of us first came to know him–well, know of him–when in 1985, as one of the Top 40 players in the world, he won…
US Table Tennis Hall of Fame
Recognizing athletes and contributors in the sport of Table Tennis in the United States