1929 World Table Tennis Championships
The 3rd World Table Tennis Championship took place from 14 to 21 January 1929 in Budapest ( Hungary). As the venue asked the Hungarian railway company the Sall Vasas available.
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For the first time took Yugoslavia, Romania and Lithuania participated in the World Cup. Some Yugoslavs had but recognize their great power deficit and left prematurely. For the first time the team fights were terminated after the fifth team point ( in the World Championships before the remaining pairs were played out ). Very superior played the Hungarian team, proving the overall result of 45:5 points and the smooth 5-0 victory against Austria.
In the men's singles first time presented the Hungarians not the World Champion: The winner was the Englishman Fred Perry. In the women's Hungarian Maria Mednyanszky for the third time in a row won the world championship. For the first time appeared the name of Victor Barna, who won the men's doubles.
Cutting off the Germans
The German team improved on the previous World Cup to a place and finished sixth. The first gold medal for Germany took the women's doubles Erika Metzger / Mona elm, which unexpectedly won against Mednyanszky / Sipos in the semi-finals after 0-2 residue.
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- Fred Perry is better known as the best tennis players in England. After this World Cup, he focused on tennis. In the summer of 1929, he qualified for participation in the Wimbledon tournament. 1934, 1935 and 1936, he won the finals at Wimbledon - scoffers conclude that it is three times harder to become world champion in table tennis as world champion in tennis. According to him, no English tennis player could win Wimbledon more.
- Adrian Haydon was the father of Ann Haydon -Jones, who stood at the 1957 TT World Championships in three finals and lost and then switch to tennis and later won Wimbledon. Participant in the World Cup was his wife Marjorie Haydon who resigned from Marie Masákova.
- Anna Sipos was the first woman to play with penholder racket attitude.
- The trophy for the men's singles, the St. Bride Vase, donated C.Corti Woodcock (member of London's St. Bride Table Tennis Club )
Results
The following German took part only in the individual competitions:
- Ladies: Ingeborg Carnatz, Erika Metzger, Mona elm