Jill Hammersley

Jill Hammersley 2017

Jill Hammersley b. Shirley (born December 6, 1951 in Carshalton ) was the best English table tennis player in the 1970s . She won the European Championships in singles and doubles. She won three times in the European ranking tournament TOP-12.

National successes

Hammersley started playing table tennis when he was 10 years old. A little later she won the English championship of the "girls under eleven years". After a few years she became English youth champion.

From 1973 to 1976 she won the national English championship four times in a row. In 1981 she won the 7th title.

International success

From 1969 to 1981 Hammersley was represented at all seven world championships . Here she achieved her greatest success in 1973 when she reached the semi-finals in doubles with the Hungarian Beatrix Kisházi.

Between 1970 and 1982 she was nominated for all seven European championships . Here she won three silver medals: in 1972 in doubles with Beatrix Kisházi and in 1978 and 1982 in singles. She had her greatest success in 1976 in Prague when she won the European Championships in singles and doubles (with Linda Howard ). At the European ranking tournament Europe TOP-12 she took first place in 1978, 1980 and 1981. In 1977 and 1982 she came second.

In the ITTF world rankings Hammersley was led from mid-1976 to early 1977 in sixth place, in the European rankings in January 1976 she was number one.

Others

In 1971, 1973, and 1975, Hammersley won the Commonwealth Championships individually and with the team. In 1973 and 1975 she also won doubles. From the 1978/79 season Hammersley played with the club TSV Kronshagen in the German women's Bundesliga . In 1983 she ended her international career.

Private

On July 3, 1971, she married Nick Hammersley. In September 1982 she remarried, Donald Parker, and was then called Jill Parker . Her daughters, named Kate and Joanna , were also nominated for the England national team.

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
CLOSELY	Commonwealth Championship	1975	Melbourne	OUT	gold	gold		1
CLOSELY	Commonwealth Championship	1973	Cardiff	WHALE	gold	gold		1
CLOSELY	Commonwealth Championship	1971	COMW	Sing	gold			1
CLOSELY	European Championship	1982	Budapest	HUN	silver	Semifinals	Quarter finals
CLOSELY	European Championship	1980	Bern	SUI	last 16	Semifinals
CLOSELY	European Championship	1978	Duisburg	FRG	silver
CLOSELY	European Championship	1976	Prague	TCH	gold	gold		2
CLOSELY	European Championship	1974	Novi Sad	YUG	Quarter finals
CLOSELY	European Championship	1972	Rotterdam	NED	last 16	silver
CLOSELY	European Championship	1970	Moscow	URS	last 16
CLOSELY	EURO TOP12	1983	Cleveland	CLOSELY	9
CLOSELY	EURO TOP12	1982	Nantes	FRA	2
CLOSELY	EURO TOP12	1981	Miskolc	HUN	1
CLOSELY	EURO TOP12	1980	Munich	FRG	1
CLOSELY	EURO TOP12	1979	Kristianstad	SWE	Scratched
CLOSELY	EURO TOP12	1978	Prague	TCH	1
CLOSELY	EURO TOP12	1977	Sarajevo	YUG	2
CLOSELY	EURO TOP12	1976	Lübeck	FRG	Scratched
CLOSELY	EURO TOP12	1974	Trollhatten	SWE	5
CLOSELY	EURO TOP12	1973	Boeblingen	FRG	6th
CLOSELY	EURO TOP12	1972	Zagreb	YUG	10
CLOSELY	Pro tour	1996	Rio de Janeiro	BRA		Semifinals
CLOSELY	World Championship	1981	Novi Sad	YUG	last 64	last 16	last 64	12
CLOSELY	World Championship	1979	Pyongyang	PRK	last 16	last 32	last 16	12
CLOSELY	World Championship	1977	Birmingham	CLOSELY	last 32	last 64	last 64	7th
CLOSELY	World Championship	1975	Calcutta	IND	last 64	last 32	Agony	5
CLOSELY	World Championship	1973	Sarajevo	YUG	last 64	Semifinals	Scratched	10
CLOSELY	World Championship	1971	Nagoya	JPN	last 64	last 16	Scratched	8th
CLOSELY	World Championship	1969	Munich	FRG	Agony	last 32	last 64	9

literature

• Olaf Brockmann: I'm looking forward to the Bundesliga , DTS magazine , 1978/10 page 14

Individual evidence

1. ↑ World ranking list from 1947 - 2001 (Excel; 171 kB) ( Memento of the original from March 5, 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 on September 15, 2011)  
2. ↑ table tennis - newsletter of the German Table Tennis Association of the GDR, 1976/2 Page 3-4
3. ↑ DTS magazine , 1971/13 page 10
4. ↑ Table Tennis News - Official Journal of the English Table Tennis Association, October 1982, page 42 (accessed August 13, 2014)
5. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from September 30, 2007 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.  
6. ^ Jill Hammersley Findings from ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed September 7, 2011)

Web links

• Portrait and interview ( accessed October 21, 2014) Table Tennis News No. 108, January 1980, pages 25-26