Marty Reisman

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Marty Reisman (born February 1, 1930 in Manhattan , † December 7, 2012 in New York City ) was an American table tennis player . He participated in seven world championships and won five bronze medals.

Career

Marty Reisman was the son of a taxi driver. From 1948 to 1967 he took part in seven world championships . In 1948 and 1949 he was third in the team competition, in 1949 he also reached the semi-finals in singles and mixed with Peggy McLean . In the individual he was defeated by the Czech Bohumil Váňa . He won his fifth and final bronze medal at the 1952 World Cup with Douglas Cartland . In 1949 he won the Open English Championships by beating Victor Barna in the final .

In mid-1948, he was fifth in the ITTF world rankings .

Marty Reisman often played exhibition matches, for example in Germany in 1952 with Douglas Cartland. His behavior was not always approved by the American Table Tennis Association and occasionally earned him bans, around 1951 for one year and from October 1959 to January 1960.

Marty Reisman played with a "hard board" bat (pimples outside without a sponge pad). By winning the United States National Hardbat Championship in 1997, he became the oldest player to ever win an open national competition in a racquet sport.

In 1974 he published his autobiography The Money Player, The Confessions of America's Greatest Table Tennis Player and Hustler ( ISBN 978-0688002732 , Morrow-Verlag). In 2003 he received the Mark Matthews Lifetime Achievement Award .

Private

Marty Reisman was married and had one daughter.

Results from the ITTF database

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team
United States World Championship 1967 Stockholm SWE last 64 last 64 no participants
United States World Championship 1959 Dortmund FRG last 64 last 64 no participants
United States World Championship 1957 Stockholm SWE last 64 last 32 last 32 5
United States World Championship 1952 Bombay IND last 64 Semifinals last 16
United States World Championship 1951 Vienna AUT last 16 last 16 last 16 4th
United States World Championship 1949 Stockholm SWE Semifinals last 16 Semifinals 3
United States World Championship 1948 Wembley CLOSELY last 32 last 16 last 16 3

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ dates of birth (accessed June 19, 2015)
  2. ↑ Died at Columbia University Medical Center, according to The Table Tennis Collector, No. 73, Aug. 2014, p. 6 (accessed June 19, 2015)
  3. ↑ The Table Tennis Collector No. 47, Winter 2008, page 3 (accessed June 19, 2015)
  4. ↑ ITTF world rankings from 1947 to 2001 (Excel; 171 kB) (accessed on June 19, 2015)
  5. ↑ DTS magazine , 1952/3 page 2
  6. ^ DTS magazine , 1951/21 page 3
  7. ↑ DTS magazine , 1960/1 page 12
  8. ↑ Marty Reisman Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed June 19, 2015)

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personal data
SURNAME Reisman, Marty
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reisman, Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH February 1, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Manhattan
DATE OF DEATH December 7, 2012
Place of death New York City