Trevor Taylor (table tennis player)

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Trevor Taylor (* around 1952) is a former English table tennis player from the 1970s. He won several Commonwealth championships and took part in four world championships.

Career

Left-handed Trevor Taylor began playing table tennis in Letchworth Garden City . Already in 1964 one noticed the successful talent. In 1965 he was named Boy of the Year .

At the English National Adult Championships in 1972 and 1973 he won the singles title, in doubles he won in 1971 with Chester Barnes , 1973 with Denis Neale and again in 2005 with Alex Perry.

Taylor was most successful internationally at the Commonwealth Championships of 1971, 1973 and 1975, where he won eight gold medals: each time he won both the singles and the team competition, and he also won twice in doubles, namely in 1971 with Alan Hydes and in 1973 with Denis Neale .

From 1969 to 1975 he was nominated for all four world championships . In 1969 he achieved his best result with sixth place in the team competition. There was a scandal at the 1973 World Cup . In the team fight against Austria, Trevor Taylor was so listless and unmotivated that the English delegation sent him home early.

In mid-1975 he was ranked 20th in the ITTF world rankings . In the same year he joined the Dutch association Tempo-Team Amsterdam. In 1977 he moved to "ʹt Hooge Huys" (main class), in 1980 he returned to England.

Private

Trevor Taylor's younger brother Peter was also a strong table tennis player at the national level.

Results from the ITTF database

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team
CLOSELY Commonwealth Championship 1975 Melbourne OUT gold 1
CLOSELY Commonwealth Championship 1973 Cardiff WHALE gold gold 1
CLOSELY Commonwealth Championship 1971 COMW Sing gold gold 1
CLOSELY World Championship 1975 Calcutta IND last 16 last 32 no participants 12
CLOSELY World Championship 1973 Sarajevo YUG Scratched Scratched Scratched 10
CLOSELY World Championship 1971 Nagoya JPN last 128 Scratched Scratched 10
CLOSELY World Championship 1969 Munich FRG last 64 last 16 last 64 6th

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Taylor was 13 years old in 1965, according to Table Tennis magazine, November 1965, page 20 Online (accessed October 12, 2014)
  2. ^ "Table Tennis" magazine, April 1964, page 5 Online (accessed October 12, 2014)
  3. ^ "Table Tennis News" magazine, May / June 1973, page 7 Online (accessed October 12, 2014)
  4. ↑ ITTF world rankings from 1947 to 2001 (Excel; 171 kB) (accessed on October 12, 2014)
  5. ^ "Table Tennis News" magazine, May 1975, page 24 Online (accessed October 12, 2014)
  6. ↑ Magazine DTS , 1977/12 page 18
  7. ^ "Table Tennis News" magazine, October 1980, page 20 Online (accessed October 12, 2014)
  8. ↑ Trevor Taylor (table tennis player) Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed October 12, 2014)
personal data
SURNAME Taylor, Trevor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Miller, Joyce (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH around 1952