Courtesy of Tim Boggan Billy Holzrichter, born New Year’s Day, 1922, began playing at the Larabee Y in Chicago in 1934. Two years later, in the Illinois Open, he had a sensational win over Ralph Muchow (MUCK-ow), U.S. #9 for the ’36-37 season. This prompted Yoshio Fushimi, Coleman Clark’s exhibition partner and one of the

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Courtesy of Tim Boggan Judy Bochenski played in her first U.S. Open when she was 11. At the 1969 San Francisco U.S. Open, she won her first major–the Girls U-13–by defeating her perennial rival Angelita Rosal. A few months later, at the Toronto CNE, Judy’s later acclaimed flat forehand is still something of an awkward

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Courtesy of Tim Boggan More than 40 years ago, at about the same time that Japan’s Hiroji Satoh was astonishing everyone by winning the World Championship with his strange sponge racket, George Hendry married Marilyn Schuessler and soon thereafter gave up playing table tennis to establish his own accounting practice. Then, after an absence of

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