Wendy Woodhead

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Wendy Woodhead (born May 10, 1916 in Edmonton ( Middlesex ), † January 2003 in Penrith (Cumbria) ) was an English table tennis player . She took part in five world championships and won the mixed title in 1938 .

Career

Wendy Woodhead's father owned his own tennis court. Wendy was talented in tennis, basketball and especially table tennis. At the open English championships she won four titles in doubles, in 1933 with Adele Wood and in 1925, 1937 and 1938 with Margaret Osborne .

From 1934 to 1938 she took part in all five world championships . Up to and including 1937, she was in fourth and fifth place with the English women's team. In 1937 she reached the final in doubles with Margaret Osborne, which was lost, however, 3-0 against Vlasta Depetrisová / Věra Votrubcová from Czechoslovakia. A year later, in 1938 , she was not nominated for the team competition because her playing strength was supposedly insufficient. Nevertheless, together with the Hungarian László Bellák , with whom she had never played before, she became world champion in mixed ahead of last year's Czechoslovakian winners Bohumil Váňa / Věra Votrubcová.

In 1940, Wendy Woodhead married the cricketer Martin 'Bunny' Burbush (1912–1976).

Results from the ITTF database

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team
CLOSELY World Championship 1938 Wembley CLOSELY last 16 last 32 gold
CLOSELY World Championship 1937 to bathe AUT last 16 silver last 32 5th place
CLOSELY World Championship 1936 Prague TCH last 16 last 16 last 16 5th place
CLOSELY World Championship 1935 Wembley CLOSELY last 64 last 16 last 32 4th Place
CLOSELY World Championship 1934 Paris FRA Quarter finals Quarter finals Quarter finals 4th Place

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b life data on ancestry.de (accessed on February 4, 2019)
  2. ↑ a b 80 seasons at Amersham & Chiltern RFC - A history of the club 1924 - 2004, page 20 (accessed February 4, 2019)
  3. ↑ Table Tennis, Vol. II No. 6, March 1937, page 3 (accessed on February 4, 2019)
  4. ↑ World Championship Table Tennis Memorabilia (accessed February 4, 2019)

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personal data
SURNAME Woodhead, Wendy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Woodhead, Pauline Wendy; Burbush, Wendy (married name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Edmonton ( Middlesex )
DATE OF DEATH January 2003
Place of death Penrith (Cumbria)