US Table Tennis Hall of Fame

Recognizing athletes and contributors in the sport of Table Tennis in the United States

Category: Player

  • Yinghua Cheng

    Courtesy of Tim Boggan Cheng Yinghua (or just Chen, as his familiars–that is, everybody–at his Gaithersberg Club comfortably call him), is of course, at age 42, our three-time National Champion. Many of us first came to know him–well, know of him–when in 1985, as one of the Top 40 players in the world, he won

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  • Douglas Cartland

    Courtesy of Tim Boggan The official USTTA publication, Table Tennis Topics, first mentions Doug Cartland when in Apr., 1935, as part of an exhibition at Chapel Hill given by visiting New York stars Abe Berenbaum, Rudy Rubin, Chet Wells, and George Bacon, Doug was said to have lost the University of North Carolina table tennis

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  • Charles “Chuck” Burns

    Courtesy of Tim Boggan Detroit’s Charles Bernstein, whom I’ll already start calling Chuck Burns, born May 25, 1917, died July 4, 2002, had a sports background before he became a serious table tennis player. As he later told a reporter, he’d “captained the Northeastern YMCA basketball team for two years,” and he’d also “played one

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