Eric Filby
English table tennis and lawn tennis player
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Eric John Filby (31 May 1917 – 9 December 2004) was a male English international table tennis and lawn tennis player.[1]
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| Born | 31 May 1917 | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 9 December 2004 (aged 87) | ||||||||||||||
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He won a bronze medal at the 1938 World Table Tennis Championships in the men's doubles with Hyman Lurie.[2][3]
In 1950 he moved from Norfolk to Croydon.[4]
Filby played in the 1955 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles.[5]