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Bill Walk
Courtesy of Tim Boggan The South Park (Pittsburgh) Club, still in existence today (the oldest continually USATT affiliated club?), was formed in the 1957-58 season under the leadership of Lillian Guyer. Lillian was a Vice-President of the USTTA and also the Courts, Clubs, and League Chair—in fact, through the years she chaired five different committees…
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Brian Masters
Courtesy of Tim Boggans Brian Masters began playing table tennis at age 10 and two years later he was accepting his first National’s trophy at Caesars Palace from boxing-great Joe Louis. There followed five U.S. Open or Closed Junior Doubles Championships. Some say, being a lefty, Brian was always a better doubles than a singles…
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Azmy Ibrahim
Courtesy of Tim Boggan This Profile, Autobiography really, will be largely written by Azmy—familiarly known to those who’ve talked with him or read his columns for 20 years as “Dr. Azmy”—I’ve edited it. “It all started when I was not more than seven years old. My brother was the table tennis player, and he wanted…
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Amy Feng
Courtesy of Tim Boggan Four-time U.S. Women’s Champion Amy Feng’s first coach was her father, Peishing, whom she’d accompanied to a local table tennis club and found that playing the game was fun—certainly better than studying. By 1981, 12-year-old Amy had been accepted as a professional member of the Tianjin, China Women’s Team. Later, in…
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Mitchell Seidenfeld
Marcy Monasterial, who with one arm had been a member of the able-bodied 1957 U.S. Team to the Stockholm World’s, points to the 1990 World Championship Games for the Disabled to introduce Minneapolis’s 26-year-old Mitch Seidenfeld to us. Who, we want to know, IS this dwarf, er “little person”? Unseeded in Men’s Class 8, he…
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