Desmond Douglas

Desmond Douglas ( born July 20, 1955 in Kingston ( Jamaica) ) is an English table tennis players. He has played for several years at Borussia Dusseldorf and performed with impressive individual balance his club to five German championships.

Play

Desmond Douglas resembled the type of player and Stellan Bengtsson ago Wilfried Lieck. How Lieck he had good reflexes and an extremely safe backhand block and played the forehand topspin more from the wrist and forearm as from the whole arm. He resembled The thus not optimal pace by surprising change of direction. How Bengtsson Douglas shone with a very good - almost catlike understand - footwork and agility. For the really big breakthrough in world or European championships he may not have had the hard forehand "shot" or the very aggressive topspin, perhaps in some crucial situations but also just a little luck. Douglas is left-handed.

Career as a player

At the age of five years, Douglas moved with his family from Jamaica to Birmingham. As a 15 -year-old he joined a table tennis club, two years later he was one of the best juniors in England. In 1973 he was at the Junior European Champion in Mixed ( with Linda Howard).

Until 1990, he won eleven times the English championship in individual ( nine times in a row) and several times in double ( inter alia with Paul Day and Graham Sandley ).

Although Douglas in the German Bundesliga - 1977-1985 he played for Borussia Dusseldorf - was several seasons been the measure of all things and was able to compete against top international players, is it, apart from winning the Europe Top -12 1987 in Basel, the success in denied a European or World Championship remained.

Clubs

  • Central Y.M.C.A
  • Borussia Dusseldorf (1977 / 78-1984 / 85)
  • J.K.N. Steelstock Wolverhampton ( England 1st Division ) (1985 to? ? )
  • NFD Grove

Tournaments

  • World Cup: 1973, 1975, 1977, 1979, 1981, 1983, 1985, 1987, 1989, 1995
  • Summer Olympic Games 1988
  • EM: 1974, 1978, 1980, 1982, 1984, 1986, 1988, 1990
  • Commonwealth Championship in 1973, 1975, 1985
  • Europe Top 12: 1978-1983, 1985-1987, 1989

Achievements

Private

Desmond Douglas is married with his wife Margie and has two sons.

Results from the ITTF database

Swell

  • Elmar Schneider: Herz ist Trumpf - Desmond Douglas - Düsseldorf Briton from Jamaica, magazine DTS, 1984/10 p.39 -40
  • Rahul Nelson: Finally at the top, magazine DTS, 1987/2 p.33
Kingston, Jamaica 1973 World Table Tennis Championships 1975 World Table Tennis Championships 1977 World Table Tennis Championships 1979 World Table Tennis Championships 1981 World Table Tennis Championships 1983 World Table Tennis Championships 1985 World Table Tennis Championships 1987 World Table Tennis Championships 1989 World Table Tennis Championships 1995 World Table Tennis Championships 1988 Summer Olympics
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