Tin-Tin Ho | |
Nationality: | British |
Playingstyle: | Penholder |
Birth Date: | 3 September 1998 |
Birth Place: | London, England |
Highest Rank: | 93 (December 2020) |
Current Rank: | 93 [1] |
Weight: | 50kg (110lb) |
Show-Medals: | yes |
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.
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]
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]