Karenza Mathews Explained

Karenza Mathews (née Smith)
Birth Date:	1950
Birth Place:	Bristol, England

Karenza Mathews (née Smith) is a female former international table tennis player from England.^[1]

Table tennis career

She represented England at five World Table Tennis Championships in the Corbillon Cup (women's team event) from 1967 to 1975.^[2] She also reached the quarter-finals of the Women's Doubles with Mary Shannon-Wright^[3] and the Mixed Doubles with Denis Neale in 1967.^[4]

Karenza was England number one and won 231 senior caps and won a bronze medal in the team event at the European Table Tennis Championships in 1970.^[5]

She won an English Open title and 15 English National Table Tennis Championships titles.^[5]

Personal life

She married Kenneth Mathews on 18 May 1968. She then had two daughters who both married and have had a daughter and a son each. ^[6]

See also

• List of England players at the World Team Table Tennis Championships

Notes and References

1. Web site: Profile. Table Tennis Guide.
2. Web site: Corbillon Cup results. tischtennis-infos.de.
3. Web site: Women's doubles results. https://web.archive.org/web/20120412045730/http://www.ittf.com/museum/WorldChResultsWD.pdf. dead. 2012-04-12. International Table Tennis Federation.
4. Web site: Mixed doubles results. https://web.archive.org/web/20120609224957/http://www.ittf.com/museum/WorldChResultsXD.pdf. dead. 2012-06-09. International Table Tennis Federation.
5. Web site: 1967 Corbillon Cup results. Table Tennis England.
6. Web site: Wedding Bells. Table Tennis England.