Tin-Tin Ho

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| nationality = British

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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1998|9|3|df=y}}

| birth_place = London, England

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| highest_rank = 93 (December 2020)

| current_rank = 93 {{cite web |url=https://ranking.ittf.com/#/players/profile/115430/stats|title=ITTF - World Ranking|accessdate=2 December 2020}}

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Tin-Tin Ho (born 3 September 1998) is an English table tennis player, born and raised in London.{{cite news|title=Tin-Tin Ho, the teenage table tennis star named after her sport |publisher=www.bbc.co.uk/sport|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/table-tennis/25715721}} She has won multiple national titles, as well as two Commonwealth silver medals, and appeared at the 2020 Summer Olympics.

Career

=2014 Commonwealth Games=

She competed for England in the mixed doubles event at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, where she won a silver medal with partner Liam Pitchford.{{cite web |url=http://results.glasgow2014.com/athlete/squash/1022301/tin_tin_ho.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20141009210225/http://results.glasgow2014.com/athlete/squash/1022301/tin_tin_ho.html|url-status=usurped|archive-date=9 October 2014|title=Glasgow 2014 profile |accessdate=9 October 2014 }}{{cite news|title=Silver medal for Tin-Tin Ho|publisher=www.ie-today.co.uk|url=http://ie-today.co.uk/News/silver_medal_for_tintin_ho_}}

=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.{{Cite web|url=http://tabletennisengland.co.uk/news/drinkhall-and-ho-are-national-champions/|title = Drinkhall and Ho are national champions}}

=2018 Commonwealth Games=

At the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia, Ho and Pitchford repeated their silver medal from four years earlier{{Cite web|url=https://www.ittf.com/2018/04/15/silver-glasgow-gold-coast-gao-ning-yu-mengyu-secure-title/|title=Silver in Glasgow, same again in Gold Coast; Gao Ning and Yu Mengyu secure title|date=15 April 2018}} and she was also part of the England squad which won team bronze, alongside Kelly Sibley, Maria Tsaptsinos and Denise Payet.{{Cite web|url=https://www.ittf.com/2018/04/08/england-wins-bronze-australian-hopes-ashes/?from=4|title = England wins bronze, Australian hopes in ashes|date = 8 April 2018}}

=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.{{cite web |last1=Tomas |first1=Fiona |title=Tin-Tin Ho interview: Meet the British medal hopeful named after an Olympic sport |url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/olympics/2021/07/23/tin-tin-ho-interview-meet-british-medal-hopeful-named-olympic/ |website=www.telegraph.co.uk |access-date=24 July 2021}} She lost in the first round to Manika Batra of India.{{cite web |title=Table Tennis - BATRA Manika vs HO Tin-Tin - Round 1 Results |url=http://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/olympic-games/en/results/table-tennis/results-women-s-singles-r128-000600-.htm |website=olympics.com |access-date=24 July 2021 |archive-date=3 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210803093759/https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/olympic-games/en/results/table-tennis/results-women-s-singles-r128-000600-.htm |url-status=dead }}

= Post 2020 Olympics =

In 2024, she won a 6th women's singles, 7th women's doubles and 7th mixed doubles title at the English National Table Tennis Championships, held at the David Ross Sports Village in Nottingham, to go into third place in the all-time list of winners for the event.{{cite web |url=https://www.tabletennisengland.co.uk/sevens-heaven-for-drinkhall-and-its-six-of-the-best-for-ho/ |title=Seven's heaven for Drinkhall and it's six of the best for Ho |website=Table Tennis England |date=24 March 2024 |access-date=25 March 2024}}

Personal life

Ho is of Hong Kong descent, and her father named her Tin-Tin so that her name would have the same initials as "table-tennis".{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/olympics/2021/07/23/tin-tin-ho-interview-meet-british-medal-hopeful-named-olympic/|title=Tin-Tin Ho interview: Meet the British medal hopeful named after an Olympic sport|first=Fiona|last=Tomas|newspaper=The Telegraph |date=23 July 2021|via=www.telegraph.co.uk}}

References

External links

{{WTT player|115430}}
{{Olympedia}}
{{Olympics.com profile|tin-tin-ho}}
{{Team GB|2lcn2zywvq0wbZhiGGPBiV}}
{{Team England|tin-tin-ho}}
{{2014 Commonwealth Games profile|table_tennis/1022301/tt_ho}}
{{2018 Commonwealth Games profile|table-tennis/athlete-profile-n6031710-tin-tin-ho}}
{{2022 Commonwealth Games profile|58185}}
{{Instagram|tintin.ho}}

Category:1998 births

Category:Living people

Category:English female table tennis players

Category:English people of Hong Kong descent

Category:Commonwealth Games silver medallists for England

Category:Table tennis players at the 2014 Commonwealth Games

Category:Commonwealth Games silver medallists in table tennis

Category:Table tennis players from London

Category:Table tennis players at the 2018 Commonwealth Games

Category:Table tennis players at the 2019 European Games

Category:European Games competitors for Great Britain

Category:People educated at the City of London School for Girls