Maurice Balfour Wright Bergl (23 January 1917 – 1998), was a male

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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 was a leading England international player during the 1930s and 1940s. He reached the number 3 ranking of Britain and was runner-up in the English Championship in 1934. He competed in the

1935 World Table Tennis Championships The 1935 World Table Tennis Championships were held at the Imperial Institute, South Kensington in London with the finals at the Wembley Sports Arena, from February 8 to February 16, 1935. The championships attracted 19 countries and the finals ...

and

1936 World Table Tennis Championships The 1936 World Table Tennis Championships were held in Prague from March 12 to March 18, 1936. The championships were criticised for the bad management and poor tables. The Lucerna Palace arena (a 4,000-seat, underground concert hall) conditions ...

Personal life

He was born in 1917 in Russia and came to England in 1920. He married in 1945. He died in 1998 in

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Table tennis career

Personal life

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