Table tennis is a fun, fast paced game played by people across the Commonwealth.
At the elite level Team England challenged for nine medals across both table tennis and para-table tennis at the 2018 Commonwealth Games.
In Australia, Team England won two gold, two silver and two bronze medals. This included taking home both gold and silver in the men's TT6-10 singles as teammates Ross Wilson and Kim Daybell battled it out for the number one spot with Ross coming out on top.
Singles matches are decided over the best of seven games
Each game is won by the player who scores 11 points, a player must win a game by two clear points
Points are scored by bouncing the ball twice on the opponent’s side of the net or by the ball hitting the floor after having hit the table - shots which hit the floor having not first bounced on the table are “out” and the point is conceded
The singles tournament has a group draw of unseeded players with the winners of each group facing the top 16 seeds in the first of the knock-out rounds
Both the men’s and women’s doubles were straight knockout competitions on the Gold Coast
The team tournament consisted of a mixture of singles and doubles matches similar to the Davis Cup and Fed Cup in tennis
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Simon joined Table Tennis England in March 2014 to build the performance pathway has coincided with a renaissance in the performance of English players on the world stage and saw two players qualify for the Olympic Games for the first time in 20 years, after the first medal winning performance at the 2016 World Team Championships since 1983.
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