Karenza Mathews (née Smith) is a female former international
table tennis
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player from
England
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.
Table tennis career
She represented England at five
World Table Tennis Championships
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in the Corbillon Cup (women's team event) from 1967 to 1975. She also reached the quarter-finals of the Women's Doubles with
Mary Shannon-Wright and the Mixed Doubles with
Denis Neale in 1967.
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.
She won an
English Open
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title and 15
English National Table Tennis Championships titles.
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Personal life
She married Kenneth Mathews on 18 May 1968.
See also
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References
English female table tennis players
1950 births
Living people
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