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Donna Chaimson Sakai
In the late 1950’s, Bob Chaimson was not only President of the Washington, D.C. Table Tennis Association, he was also USTTA Membership Chair–with his chief and only Committee members being his wife Leona and daughters Barbara (born 7/07/42) and Donna (born 1/12/47). As Bob doubtless began to visualize, he was about to have much more
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Sean O’Neill
Courtesy of Tim Boggan Sean O’Neill came to the Sport when he was seven—began going to a local club with his dad Pat who as a teenager played in Ohio tournaments. The O’Neill family had hosted the newly arrived Thailand Champions, Charlie Wuvanich and Chuchai Chan, and in the summer of 1975, after the Thais
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Laszlo Bellak
Way before the inimitable Laszlo “Laci” Bellak came from Hungary to play in the 1937 U.S. Open, he had an unmatchable reputation as an on-court entertainer–a world class player with an impishly unique and maddeningly effective style. The first U.S. player to see Laci in action and to marvel at his virtuoso serio-comic performance was
US Table Tennis Hall of Fame
Recognizing athletes and contributors in the sport of Table Tennis in the United States