Tin-Tin Ho
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London, England
| Tin-Tin Ho | |
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| Personal information | |
| Nationality | British |
| Born | 3 September 1998 London, England |
| Height | 1.59 m (5 ft 2+1⁄2 in) |
| Weight | 50 kg (110 lb; 7.9 st) |
Table tennis career | |
| Playing style | Penholder |
| Highest ranking | 93 (December 2020) |
| Current ranking | 93[1] |
Medal record | |
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.
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]
