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Judy Bochenski Hoarfrost
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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George Hendry
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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Sydney Heitner
Courtesy of Tim Boggan The only extant photo of the 1933 New York Table Tennis Association National Champion Sidney Heitner is a sedate, pipe-smoking, suit,-tie,-and-vest one that bespeaks him as a serious fellow, old beyond his years. It appears in the beginning of Table Tennis Tactics, a 100-page, softcover book published in 1933 by the…
US Table Tennis Hall of Fame
Recognizing athletes and contributors in the sport of Table Tennis in the United States