Joan Ingram

Joan Ingram (born February 28, 1910 , † February 4, 1981 in Westminster (London) ) was an English table tennis and tennis player . She won a total of three bronze medals at the 1928 World Championships.

Career

Very little is known about Joan Ingram.

In 1926 she took part in the first ever World Championship in London. At that time there was only single and mixed competition for women, doubles and team fights were not held. In the individual, she came on in the first round without a fight and then lost in the quarter-finals to Winifred Land . In mixed at the side of her compatriot George Ross, she also reached the quarter-finals without a fight, before they were eliminated by the Hungarian-English couple Roland Jacobi / G. Gleeson (ENG).

At the next World Cup in Stockholm in 1928 , a double competition for women was offered for the first time. Only five couples competed here. Here came Winifred Country / Joan Ingram without a fight the next round and then failed in the semifinals of Mária Mednyánszky / Fanchette flame (Hungary / Austria). In mixed she competed with Charles Bull (England). After beating Folke Johansson / Carin Westberg (Sweden), they reached the semi-finals without a fight, where they failed to Zoltán Mechlovits / Mária Mednyánszky. In the singles she won against Margyl Brandt (Sweden) and Fanchette Flamm (Austria). This was again enough for bronze. She missed the final when she lost to future world champion Mária Mednyánszky (Hungary).

Joan Ingram was less successful in her third and last participation in the 1929 World Cup . She won the singles against Varga (Hungary) and then lost to the Austrian Josefine Kolbe . In doubles, she signed up with the Englishwoman Ann Haydon , where she made it through the first round without a fight, but did not start the next round. The mixed pairing Charles Bull / Ingram (England) defeated Erno Földi / Rosenberg (Hungary) and lost to Manfred Feher / Lili Forbath (Austria).

At the Open Championships of England she came in 1926/27 in doubles with Doris Gubbins and in mixed with Lionel Farris in first place. In 1927/28 she was third in the individual at the International German Championships in Berlin.

In late 1928, Joan Ingram was ranked fifth in the ITTF world rankings .

After that she no longer appeared internationally in the table tennis scene. From 1932 to 1939 she played tennis at Wimbledon, then again in 1947.

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
CLOSELY	World Championship	1929	Budapest	HUN	last 16	Quarter finals	last 16
CLOSELY	World Championship	1928	Stockholm	SWE	Semifinals	Semifinals	Semifinals
CLOSELY	World Championship	1926	London	CLOSELY	Quarter finals		Quarter finals

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Women 's singles WM 1926 ( Memento of the original from January 17, 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 February 12, 2016)  
2. ↑ Mixed WM 1926 ( Memento of the original from January 18, 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 February 12, 2016)  
3. ↑ WM 1928 women's doubles and mixed ( memento of the original from December 22, 2015 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 February 12, 2016)  
4. ↑ WM 1928 women singles ( Memento of the original from December 22nd, 2015 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 February 12, 2016)  
5. ↑ WM 1929 women singles ( 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 on February 12, 2016)  
6. ↑ WM 1929 ladies doubles ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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 on February 12, 2016)  
7. ↑ WM 1929 Mixed ( 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 on February 12, 2016)  
8. ↑ Manfred Schäfer: A game for life. 75 years of DTTB. (1925-2000) . Published by the German Table Tennis Association DTTB , Frankfurt am Main 2000, ISBN 3-00-005890-7 , page 134
9. ^ (Wiener) Sporttagblatt: December 11, 1928, page 5 Online (accessed on February 3, 2016)
10. ^ Wiener Kurier, July 3, 1947 page 3 (accessed October 8, 2018)
11. ^ Joan Ingram results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed February 2, 2016)

Web links

• Photos by Joan Ingram (accessed October 8, 2018)
• Photo on tabletennisengland.co.uk (accessed October 8, 2018)