Linda Jarvis (née Howard) is a female former 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 from England.
Table tennis career
She represented England at four
World Table Tennis Championships
The World Table Tennis Championships are table tennis competitions sanctioned by the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF). The World Championships have been held since 1926, biennially since 1957. Five individual events, which include m ...
in the Corbillon Cup (women's team event) from 1973 to 1981.
She won 12
English National Table Tennis Championships titles.
Personal life
Linda married
Nicky Jarvis in 1979 and their son is professional footballer
Matt Jarvis
Matthew Thomas Jarvis (born 22 May 1986) is an English former professional footballer who played as a winger.
After an unsuccessful spell as a youth-team player for Millwall, Jarvis began his professional career with Gillingham, making his ...
. Her sister Susan Howard was also an English international.
See also
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References
English female table tennis players
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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