Bryan Merrett Explained

Bryan Merrett
Birth Date:1 November 1934
Birth Place:Gloucester, England
Death Place:Gloucester, England

Bryan Reginald Merrett was a male international table tennis player from England.[1]

Table tennis career

He won a bronze medal at the 1955 World Table Tennis Championships in the Swaythling Cup (men's team event) with Richard Bergmann, Brian Kennedy, Johnny Leach and Alan Rhodes and for England.[2] [3]

He was a former England No 1, played in 100 internationals and won the Welsh Open in Cardiff in 1952.[4] He won two English National Table Tennis Championships titles in singles and doubles.[5]

Personal life

He married Shirley Hotchkins in 1957 and they spent their honeymoon on a Russian table tennis tour.[6] He died in August 2001 aged 66.[4]

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Profile. Table Tennis Guide.
  2. Web site: Table Tennis World Championship medal winners. Sports123. 2018-04-03. 2018-09-22. https://web.archive.org/web/20180922055935/http://sports123.com/tte/index.html. dead.
  3. Web site: Swaythling Cup results. tischtennis-infos.de. 3 April 2018. 5 May 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190505034830/http://www.tischtennis-infos.de/content/download/ittf-turniere/. dead.
  4. Web site: Sports Round-up. Daily Telegraph.
  5. Web site: Friday Photos No 46: Men’s National Champions. Table Tennis England.
  6. Web site: News page 21. Table Tennis England. 3 April 2018. 27 July 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20140727173525/http://tabletennisengland.co.uk/etta_website/magazine-archive/1957-58/tt_issue129.pdf. dead.

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