Doris Gubbins

Doris Gubbins - married Evans († 1961) was a table tennis player from Wales who participated in five world championships and won two silver and one bronze medal.

Career

Doris Gubbins is from Bridgend , later she lived in Kent . In 1926/27 she won singles and doubles at the English Open with Joan Ingram , and three years later she won the singles competition.

At the 1926 World Cup in London she reached the final, which she lost to the Hungarian Mária Mednyánszky , in the singles after victories over G. Gleeson (England), Kathleen M. Berry (England) and Anastasia Flussmann (Austria) ; a bad serve by Doris Gubbins decided the game.

Two years later she was third in the individual at the World Cup in Stockholm. She defeated Lisa Akerstrom (Sweden), Ellen Stridh (Sweden) and failed in the semifinals to Erika Metzger (Germany). She won silver in doubles with the Englishwoman Brenda Sommerville . They threw Erika Metzger / Ruth Andresen (Germany / Norway) out of the competition, made it through to the semi-finals without a fight and then lost to Fanchette Flamm / Mária Mednyánszky (Austria / Hungary) in the final .

In the other World Cup participations in 1935 , 1938 and 1948 , she won no medal. In 1938 she was fourth with the team.

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
WHALE	World Championship	1948	Wembley	CLOSELY	last 64	last 32	last 64
WHALE	World Championship	1938	Wembley	CLOSELY	last 16	last 16	no participants	4th
WHALE	World Championship	1935	Wembley	CLOSELY	last 32	last 16	no participants
WHALE	World Championship	1928	Stockholm	SWE	Semifinals	silver	Scratched
WHALE	World Championship	1926	London	CLOSELY	silver		last 16

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Table Tennis Collector, No. 37, Spring 2005, page 15 ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed December 20, 2015)  
2. ↑ The Table Tennis Collector, No. 33, Winter 2003, page 11 ( Memento of the original from May 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed December 20, 2015)  
3. ↑ Individual WM 1928 ( Memento of the original from December 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed December 20, 2015)  
4. ↑ ^{a b} Individual WM 1928 ( Memento of the original from December 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed December 20, 2015)  
5. ↑ Doris Gubbin's results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed December 20, 2015)

literature

• Ivor Montagu : MRS. DOLLY EVANS , Table Tennis Magazine, December 1961, Page 10 Online (accessed December 20, 2015)