Johnny Leach

Johnny Leach ( born November 20, 1922 in Mile End (London ) (East London) ) is a former English tennis players. He participated in 13 World Championships and was doing twice world champion in singles.

Playing career

Leach began with the table tennis games in the club Romford YMCA. In the early 1940s he served in the Royal Air Force in Northern Ireland. During this time he coached until 1949 with Jack Carrington. With this he won the silver medal in doubles with his first participation in a World Cup 1947. Two years later - in 1949 - he was single world champion for the first time. He repeated at the 1951 World Cup this success. In the following years he still won several medals. He was world champion team in 1953 with the English team. With Richard Bergmann in double he won twice the second place, the same succeeded in 1952 in the Mixed with Diane Rowe, the future wife of Eberhard Scholer. The last time Leach was in 1963 at a World Cup. In the ITTF World Ranking 1951, he was led to square one. Together with Richard Bergmann traveled Leach mid-1950s by the whole world and organized mock battles.

Johnny Leach was defender. He is still the last world champion in singles, who played defense.

Activities as an official

In the 1950s, he became Managing Director ( Managing Director ) of the company that manufactured his racket and marketed. The product marketed by his company, wine red and highly elastic " Leach " pimpled rubber and wrapped in perforated leather band bats were until the mid -1970s as a " secret " among the more aggressive rubber nubs specialists.

After his retirement, he took some offices as an official. First, he was named the English Table Tennis Association to "non -playing captain " of the British team. For a long time he was President of Haverhill where he actively played golf and occasionally participated in the Pro-Am tournaments. Since 1961 he is also President of the Essex County Table Tennis Association. Eventually he became president in 1988 of the English Table Tennis Association ETTA. This post he held for 24 years before he was replaced in 2012 by Keith Ponting.

1966 Queen Elizabeth II awarded him the title MBE (Member of the British Empire ). In 1997, he was inducted into the ITTF Hall of Fame.

Publications

Leach wrote several textbooks on table tennis:

  • How to play table tennis (1952, Verlag Gerd Hatje Stuttgart)
  • Table Tennis For All (1951 )
  • Table Tennis My Way (1955 )
  • Table Tennis Complete ( 1960)
  • Better Table Tennis ( 1969) ( ISBN 0-7182-0152-3 )
  • Table Tennis for the ' seventies (1971 )
  • Table Tennis Made Easy (1971 )

In the 1950s, Leach wrote weekly in the Sunday paper.

Private

Johnny Leach is married with his wife Daisy ( † 2009) two sons.

Achievements

  • Participation in World Table Tennis Championships 1947 in Paris 3rd place individual
  • 2nd place doubles (with Jack Carrington )
  • 3rd place with an English team
  • 2nd place doubles (with Richard Bergmann )
  • 2nd place Mixed ( with Diane Rowe )
  • 2nd place with an English team
  • 2nd place doubles (with Richard Bergmann )
  • 1st place with an English team
  • 3rd place with an English team
  • Quarterfinals in double
  • 3rd place with an English team
  • Quarterfinals in doubles (with Richard Bergmann )
  • 5.Place with English team
  • Quarterfinals in mixed doubles ( with Diane Rowe )
  • 11th place with an English team
  • 9th place with an English team
  • 4th place with an English team
  • Use only in a double
  • Participation in European Championships 1960 in Zagreb
  • 1962 in Berlin: the quarterfinals in double
  • English National Championships 1959/60 1st place doubles (with Michael Thornhill ), 1st place Mixed ( with Diane Rowe )
  • 1961/62 1st place Mixed ( with Diane Rowe )
  • 1963/64, 1st place doubles (with D.O.Craemer )
  • Open Championship of England 1950/51 1st place doubles (with Jack Carrington )
  • 1952/53, 2nd place individual, 1st place doubles (with Richard Bergmann )
  • 1959/60 1st place doubles (with Michael Thornhill )
  • International Championships

1950 and 1951 won the international Leach championships of France, Belgium and Wales.

Results from the ITTF database

Diane Scholer-Rowe 1947 World Table Tennis Championships 1949 World Table Tennis Championships 1950 World Table Tennis Championships 1951 World Table Tennis Championships 1952 World Table Tennis Championships 1953 World Table Tennis Championships 1954 World Table Tennis Championships 1955 World Table Tennis Championships 1956 World Table Tennis Championships 1957 World Table Tennis Championships 1959 World Table Tennis Championships 1961 World Table Tennis Championships 1963 World Table Tennis Championships International Table Tennis Federation Roland Jacobi Fred Perry Viktor Barna Stellan Bengtsson Seiji Ono Jiang Jialiang Jan-Ove Waldner Jean-Philippe Gatien Kong Linghui Liu Guoliang Werner Schlager Wang Hao (table tennis) Zhang Jike
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