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Si Wasserman
Courtesy of Tim Boggan Si first met his good friend and soon-to-be doubles partner Austin Finkenbinder in 1948 at the downtown Los Angeles YMCA table tennis club. (Next to Austin and Si, far right, is Ragnar “Ray” Fahlstrom, still playing in tournaments today.) It was Austin who introduced Si to the “mecca” of table tennis…
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Danny Pecora
Courtesy of Tim Boggan Ah, (photo #1) here we are with our opening inductee—the handsome, young Pecora of 1959. And doesn’t he look like a modest fellow with a serene, mild-mannered, submissive disposition.We find Danny coming of age at the 1960 Washington, D.C. National’s (Photo #2) where he and lefty Milwaukeeian Jimmy Blommer—after upsetting two…
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Khoa Nguyen
Courtesy of Tim Boggan After immigrating to the U.S. from Vietnam in 1977, Khoa Nguyen, who’d been coached by his father John since taking up the game at age 9, won, at 14, his first U.S. Closed title—the 1980 U-15 Doubles with Brandon Olson. The following September, after he’d finished 1st at the AAU Under-15…
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Kasia Dawidowicz
Courtesy of Tim Boggan It was Oct., 1972, and (Photo #1) the appearance of a father-daughter combination at the Southwestern Open in Bartlesville, Oklahoma caused quite a stir. The father, Bohdan “Bob” Dawidowicz, the hat trick winner at this Open and a house painter by profession, had come to the States from Poland where reportedly…
US Table Tennis Hall of Fame
Recognizing athletes and contributors in the sport of Table Tennis in the United States