Tin-Tin Ho (born 3 September 1998) is an English

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, born and raised in London. She has won multiple national titles, as well as two Commonwealth silver medals, and appeared at the

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Career

2014 Commonwealth Games

She competed for England in the

mixed doubles Mixed doubles or mixed pairs is a form of mixed-sex sports that consists of teams of one man and one woman. This variation of competition is prominent in curling and racket sports, such as tennis, table tennis and badminton (where it is known as ...

event at the

2014 Commonwealth Games The 2014 Commonwealth Games ( gd, Geamannan a' Cho-fhlaitheis 2014), officially known as the XX Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Glasgow 2014, ( sco, Glesca 2014 or Glesga 2014; gd, Glaschu 2014), was an international multi-sport ev ...

, where she won a silver medal with partner

Liam Pitchford Liam Benjamin Pitchford (born 12 July 1993) is a British table tennis player. He is sponsored by Victas. Career Pitchford began playing table tennis when he was eight years old. He won the British Home Countries Championship in 2009, and two Co ...

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.

2018 Commonwealth Games

At the

2018 Commonwealth Games The 2018 Commonwealth Games, officially known as the XXI Commonwealth Games and also known as Gold Coast 2018, was an international multi-sport event for members of the Commonwealth that were held on the Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, bet ...

in Gold Coast, Australia, Ho and Pitchford repeated their silver medal from four years earlier and she was also part of the England squad which won team bronze, alongside Kelly Sibley, Maria Tsaptsinos and Denise Payet.

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. She lost in the first round to

Manika Batra Manika Batra (born 15 June 1995) is an Indian table tennis player. As of November 2020, she is the top-ranked female table tennis player in India and ranked 44th in the world as of November 22. She was awarded the Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna i ...

of India.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Ho, Tin-Tin 1998 births Living people English female table tennis players English people of Chinese descent Commonwealth Games silver medallists for England Table tennis players at the 2014 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games medallists in table tennis Sportspeople from London Table tennis players at the 2018 Commonwealth Games Table tennis players at the 2019 European Games European Games competitors for Great Britain People educated at the City of London School for Girls Table tennis players at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic table tennis players of Great Britain Table tennis players at the 2022 Commonwealth Games Medallists at the 2014 Commonwealth Games Medallists at the 2018 Commonwealth Games