Tin-Tin Ho
| Tin-Tin Ho | |
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| Personal information | |
| Nationality | British |
| Born | 3 September 1998 London, England |
| Height | 1.59 m (5 ft 2+1⁄2 in) |
| Weight | 50 kg (110 lb; 7.9 st) |
Table tennis career  | |
| Playing style | Penholder |
| Highest ranking | 93 (December 2020) |
| Current ranking | 93 [1] |
Medal record | |
Tin-Tin Ho (born 3 September 1998) is an English table tennis player, born and raised in London.[2] She has won multiple national titles, as well as two Commonwealth silver medals, and appeared at the 2020 Summer Olympics.
Career
2014 Commonwealth Games
She competed for England in the mixed doubles event at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, where she won a silver medal with partner Liam Pitchford.[3][4]
National champion
In March 2016, at the age of 17, she won her first national women's singles title, when she also retained the women's doubles and mixed doubles titles.[5]
2018 Commonwealth Games
At the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia, Ho and Pitchford repeated their silver medal from four years earlier[6] and she was also part of the England squad which won team bronze, alongside Kelly Sibley, Maria Tsaptsinos and Denise Payet.[7]
2020 Summer Olympics
In qualifying for the delayed 2020 Summer Olympics, Ho became the first British woman since Atlanta 1996 to qualify for an Olympic games in the single's table tennis event.[8] She lost in the first round to Manika Batra of India.[9]
Post 2020 Olympics
In 2024, she won a 6th women's singles, 7th women's doubles and 7th mixed doubles title at the English National Table Tennis Championships, held at the David Ross Sports Village in Nottingham, to go into third place in the all-time list of winners for the event.[10]
Personal life
Ho is of Hong Kong descent, and her father named her Tin-Tin so that her name would have the same initials as "table-tennis".[11]
See also
References
- ^ "ITTF - World Ranking". Retrieved 2 December 2020.
- ^ "Tin-Tin Ho, the teenage table tennis star named after her sport". www.bbc.co.uk/sport.
- ^ "Glasgow 2014 profile". Retrieved 9 October 2014.
- ^ "Silver medal for Tin-Tin Ho". www.ie-today.co.uk.
- ^ "Drinkhall and Ho are national champions".
- ^ "Silver in Glasgow, same again in Gold Coast; Gao Ning and Yu Mengyu secure title". 15 April 2018.
- ^ "England wins bronze, Australian hopes in ashes". 8 April 2018.
- ^ Tomas, Fiona. "Tin-Tin Ho interview: Meet the British medal hopeful named after an Olympic sport". www.telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 24 July 2021.
- ^ "Table Tennis - BATRA Manika vs HO Tin-Tin - Round 1 Results". olympics.com. Archived from the original on 3 August 2021. Retrieved 24 July 2021.
- ^ "Seven's heaven for Drinkhall and it's six of the best for Ho". Table Tennis England. Retrieved 25 March 2024.
- ^ Tomas, Fiona (23 July 2021). "Tin-Tin Ho interview: Meet the British medal hopeful named after an Olympic sport" – via www.telegraph.co.uk.
External links
- Tin-Tin Ho on Twitter
- Tin-Tin Ho on Instagram
- Tin-Tin Ho at Olympedia
- Tin-Tin Ho at Olympics.com
- Tin-Tin Ho at Team GB
- Tin-Tin Ho at Team England
- Tin-Tin Ho at the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games(archived)
- Tin-Tin Ho at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games
