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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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Ilija Lupulesku
Courtesy of Tim Boggan Ilija “Lupi” Lupulesku was born Oct. 30, 1967 in Uzdin, Yugoslavia. He began playing table tennis at 9, and credits Coach Jon Bosika for convincing him to pursue a career in table tennis rather than soccer. As a 16-year-old, Lupi won the first of his back-to-back European Youth Doubles Championships with…
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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…
US Table Tennis Hall of Fame
Recognizing athletes and contributors in the sport of Table Tennis in the United States