Tin-Tin Ho

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Tin-Tin Ho
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Personal information
NationalityBritish
Born (1998-09-03) 3 September 1998 (age 25)
London, England
Height1.59 m (5 ft 2+12 in)
Weight50 kg (110 lb; 7.9 st)
Table tennis career Table tennis pictogram.svg
Playing style Penholder
Highest ranking93 (December 2020)
Current ranking93 [1]
Medal record
Representing Flag of England.svg  England
Women's table tennis
Commonwealth Games
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2014 Glasgow Mixed doubles
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2018 Gold Coast Mixed doubles
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2018 Gold Coast Women's team

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.

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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]

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References

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  3. "Glasgow 2014 profile" . Retrieved 9 October 2014.
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  6. "Silver in Glasgow, same again in Gold Coast; Gao Ning and Yu Mengyu secure title". 15 April 2018.
  7. "England wins bronze, Australian hopes in ashes". 8 April 2018.
  8. Tomas, Fiona. "Tin-Tin Ho interview: Meet the British medal hopeful named after an Olympic sport". www.telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 24 July 2021.
  9. "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.
  10. "Seven's heaven for Drinkhall and it's six of the best for Ho". Table Tennis England. 24 March 2024. Retrieved 25 March 2024.
  11. Tomas, Fiona (23 July 2021). "Tin-Tin Ho interview: Meet the British medal hopeful named after an Olympic sport". The Telegraph via www.telegraph.co.uk.