James Kenneth Hyde (1915-2010) was a male

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international

table tennis Table tennis, also known as ping-pong and whiff-whaff, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball, also known as the ping-pong ball, back and forth across a table using small solid rackets. It takes place on a hard table div ...

player.

Table tennis career

He won two

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s at the

1939 World Table Tennis Championships The 1939 World Table Tennis Championships were held in Cairo from March 6 to March 11, 1939. Only 11 men's teams and 5 women's teams entered the Championships. Hungary, the United States and Austria were the major nations missing. Viktor Barna a ...

in the men's doubles with Hyman Lurie and in the Swaythling Cup (men's team event) with Ernest Bubley, Hyman Lurie, Ken Stanley and Arthur Wilmott. He represented England 16 times between 1933 and 1939. He played for the Liverpool club, was ranked English number one in 1937 and was the only Englishman to beat

Viktor Barna Viktor Győző Barna (Braun) (24 August 1911 – 27 February 1972) was a Hungarian and British champion table tennis player as well as a record five times singles World Champion. He won 41 World Championship medals and also won 20 English O ...

. He reached the final of the

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doubles in 1934 when partnering with Andrew Millar.

Personal life

He studied at the

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and earned a BSc in chemistry. His brothers Gilbert Cecil Hyde and Eric Hyde both played county table tennis. He married in 1940 and was in the

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. He died in 2010.

References

1915 births 2010 deaths English male table tennis players Alumni of the University of Liverpool Sportspeople from St Helens, Merseyside World Table Tennis Championships medalists Royal Air Force personnel of World War II {{UK-tabletennis-bio-stub

Table tennis career

Personal life

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