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Jun Gao
Courtesy of Tim Boggan Gao Jun was born Jan. 25, 1969 in Baoding, Hebei, China (not far from Beijing). Her father introduced her to table tennis when she was five and he was serious enough to see that she had a coach. This led to her going off to an athletic boarding school for potential…
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Bob Fox
Courtesy of Tim Boggan For the first 30 years of his life, Bob Fox had little or no contact with table tennis. After he’d graduated from the University of Minnesota and was attending Duke Law School he played some student pong. Once he was somehow paired against a very good North Carolina player—good enough to…
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Diana Gee
Courtesy of Tim Boggan Since Californians Diana Gee and her twin sister Lisa, encouraged by their parents Yim and Betty, were playing at age nine not just in local tournaments but in both the 1978 Oklahoma City U.S. Open and Las Vegas Closed, you can tell the family was taking tournament table tennis seriously. An…
US Table Tennis Hall of Fame
Recognizing athletes and contributors in the sport of Table Tennis in the United States