Table tennis world championship 1952

Table tennis world championship
1951 ← World Cup 1952 → 1953
date	February 1 - 10, 1952
venue	Bombay
winner
Single (♂)	Hiroji Satō
Single (♀)	Angelica Adelstein-Rozeanu
Double (♂)	Norikazu Fujii Tadaaki Hayashi
Double (♀)	Shizuka Narahara Tomie Nishimura
Doubles (mixed)	Ferenc Sidó Angelica Adelstein-Rozeanu
Team (♂)	Hungary
Team (♀)	Japan

The 19th table tennis world championship took place from February 1st to 10th, 1952 in Bombay (India) - and thus for the second time outside of Europe after 1939. The venue was a football stadium in which a tent hall had been built.

General

• The award was made a year earlier by the International Table Tennis Federation ITTF on March 8, 1951 on the occasion of the title fights in Vienna .
• The temperature during the games was around 35 degrees Celsius. This heat bothered the Europeans in particular.
• Ferenc Sidó - later successful coach of the Hungarian national team, which was to win the world championship title in Pyongyang in 1979 - also led the Hungarians to win the title here as a player. The opponent in the final was the English men's team, which despite their two exceptional players Richard Bergmann and Johnny Leach had to be content with second place.
• For the first time Japanese players won titles at a table tennis world championship. Hiroji Satō , number five in the Japanese rankings, became world champion in men's singles, and the Japanese women's team beat the favored Romanians around record world champion Angelica Adelstein-Rozeanu . In addition, the Japanese women's and men's doubles won gold.

The British TT Association had previously created a world ranking list in which no Japanese could be found in the top ranks. Johnny Leach led before Ivan Andreadis , Ferenc Sidó , Václav Tereba , József Kóczián , Vilim Harangozo , Bohumil Váňa and René Roothooft or angelica rozeanu before Gizella Farkas , Trude Pritzi , Linda Wertl , Helen Elliot , Rosalind Rowe , Sari Szasz-Kolosvary and Diane Rowe .
The Japanese game came as a shock to the Europeans, who were used to winning. Their way of playing contradicted all theories. An unusually thick rubber coating on the clubs muffled every sound; if the ball was hit, nothing was heard, but the nickname "dumb table tennis" was coined.

• For cost reasons, there was no women's team from Germany, but a men's team that took 9th place with the later DTTB President Dieter Mauritz . Switzerland, Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia also stayed away from the World Cup, which is why the group division of the teams drawn beforehand was changed. Austria competed with a women's team.

Cutting off the Germans

The all-German squad consisted of Kurt Braun (Düsseldorf), Dieter Mauritz (Munich), Heinz Raack (Berlin), Walter Than (Munich), and Heinz Schneider (Mühlhausen in Thuringia).

Team competition men

Before that, on December 8th and 9th, 1951, an elimination tournament for six World Cup places took place in Wiesbaden.

The teams were drawn into three groups with 7 or 8 participants. Germany competed in group B.

Against India, which was trained by Barna and Ehrlich before the World Cup , the team fought to equalize after trailing 1: 4, but lost the last game and thus the match with 4: 5. This was followed by a 5-0 defeat against England and a 5-0 win against Cambodia. In the game against Japan the team had no chance with 0: 5, as well as in the 1: 5 against France. They won 5-2 against Pakistan and Portugal.

Men's singles

Only Heinz Raack managed to win. After a bye, he beat Lim Tam Var (Cambodia) in the second round. Then he lost 3-0 to Fu Chi-Fong (Hong Kong). Also by bye, Heinz Schneider and Rudi Piffl reached round 2, where they lost to Dagoberto Midosi (Brazil) and Kálmán Szepesi (Hungary) respectively . Kurt Braun (against Mai Van Hoa , Vietnam), Walter Than (against Suh Sui Cho , Hong Kong) and Dieter Mauritz (against Ehrlich , France) were eliminated in the first round .

Men's doubles

The Schneider / Piffl doubles made it to the quarter-finals, where they lost to the later runner-up world champions Bergmann / Leach . Previously, Joao F. Antas / Mohd Yasin (Portugal / Afghanistan), Mai Van Hoa / Tran Van Lieu (Vietnam) and Karl-Heinz Eckardt / Gonzalez (Germany / Chile) were thrown out of the race.

Raack / Than lost to Wong Tong Goon / Loh Kum Soon (Singapore). Mauritz / Braun were eliminated in the second round against József Kóczián / Ferenc Sidó .

Mixed

Schneider / Mary Stafford (Australia) were defeated by József Kóczián / Gizella Farkas (Hungary) and Braun / Gertrude Wutzl (Austria) of the Hungarian-Romanian pairing Ferenc Sidó / Angelica Adelstein-Rozeanu .

ITTF Congress

• The DTTB President Karl-Heinz Eckardt is elected to the ITTF Board.

Results

Rudi Piffl only took part in the individual competitions.

competition	rank	winner
Team men	1.	Hungary ( Ferenc Sidó , József Kóczián , Kálmán Szepesi , Elemér Gyetvai , Laszlo Varkonyi)
	2.	England ( Adrian Haydon , Harry Venner, Richard Bergmann , Johnny Leach , Aubrey Simons )
	3.	Japan ( Norikazu Fujii , Hiroji Satō , Tadaaki Hayashi )
	3.	Hong Kong (Keung Ming Ning, Suh Sui Cho , Chung Chin Sing, Fu Chi Fong, Cheng Kwok Wing)
	9.	Germany ( Kurt Braun , Dieter Mauritz , Heinz Raack , Heinz Schneider , Walter Than )
Team women	1.	Japan ( Shizuka Narahara , Tomie Nishimura , DD Daimon)
	2.	Romania ( Ella Zeller-Constantinescu , Sari Szasz-Kolosvary , Angelica Adelstein-Rozeanu )
	3.	England ( Kathleen Best , Margaret Franks , Rosalind Rowe , Diane Rowe )
	4th	Austria ( Gertrude Pritzi , Ermelinde Wertl , Gertrude Wutzl)
Men's singles	1.	Hiroji Satō - JPN
	2.	József Kóczián - HUN
	3.	René Roothooft - FRA
	3.	Guy Amouretti - FRA
Ladies singles	1.	Angelica Adelstein-Rozeanu - ROM
	2.	Gizella Lantos-Gervai-Farkas - HUN
	3.	Ermelinde Wertl - AUT
	3.	Rosalind Rowe - ENG
Men's doubles	1.	Norikazu Fujii / Tadaaki Hayashi - JPN
	2.	Richard Bergmann / Johnny Leach - ENG
	3.	Victor Barna / Adrian Haydon - ENG
	3.	Marty Reisman / Douglas Cartland - USA
Ladies doubles	1.	Shizuka Narahara / Tomie Nishimura - JPN
	2.	Diane Rowe / Rosalind Rowe - ENG
	3.	Helen Elliot - SCO / Ermelinde Wertl - AUT
	3.	Gizella Lantos-Gervai-Farkas / Edit Sagi - HUN
Mixed	1.	Ferenc Sidó - HUN / Angelica Adelstein-Rozeanu - ROM
	2.	Johnny Leach / Diane Rowe - ENG
	3.	Victor Barna / Rosalind Rowe - ENG
	3.	József Kóczián / Gizella Lantos-Gervai-Farkas - HUN

Medal table

rank	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	Japan	4th	0	1	5
2	Hungary	1.5	2	2	5.5
3	Romania	1.5	1	0	2.5
4th	England	0	4th	4th	8th
5	France	0	0	2	2
6th	Austria	0	0	1.5	1.5
7th	United States	0	0	1	1
8th	Hong Kong	0	0	1	1
8th	Scotland	0	0	0.5	0.5
Total		7th	7th	13	27

literature

• DTS magazine , 1952, West-Süd issue
  • Booklet 2, p. 2: Settlement and draw
  • Issue 5, pp. 1–3 + 11–12 and Issue 7, p. 12: Report

Web links

• Entry in ITTF database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ DTS magazine , 1977/7 issue Süd-West p. 16
2. ^ "The Austrians retired"; Subtitle: «The next championship in India» (last contribution of the general report) . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna March 9, 1951, p. 8 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
3. ^ "Pritzi and Wertl in the world rankings", column 1, below . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 10, 1952, p. 8 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
4. ↑ «The New Japanese Tennis Style»; Column 4, middle . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 9, 1952, p. 8 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
5. ^ «The Japanese won three titles»; Column 2, below . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 12, 1952, p. 10 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
6. ↑ 75 years of the Berliner Tischtennisverband eV - Chronicle 1927–2002, 2002, publisher: Berliner Tischtennisverband eV, Berlin, page 20
7. ↑ Magazine DTS , 1952/22 Edition West South p.14
8. ↑ DTS magazine , 1952/6 issue West-Süd p. 4