Leah Neuberger

Leah Neuberger, born Thall ( born December 17, 1915 in Columbus ( Ohio), † January 25, 1993 in Manhattan ) was the best American table tennis player in the 1950s. She won 1956 World Cup in mixed doubles.

Name

First, she played under her maiden name Leah Thall. In 1948 she married Ty Neuberger and was now listed as Leah Neuberger or Leah Thall Neuberger or Leah Thall Neuberger. Often it was also just named Miss Ping.

World Championships

Between 1947 and 1969, Neuberger went on at 11 world championships. It achieved its greatest success in the 1956 World Championships in Tokyo. Here she was, together with Erwin Klein (USA) world champion in mixed doubles after the final victory over Ivan Andreadis / Ann Haydon.

In the team competition of the World Cup 1951 in Vienna, she won against Trude Pritzi and was then led # 3 on the ITTF World Ranking.

With her ​​sister Thelma Thall (later Thelma summer) she won bronze at the World Cup in 1948, having previously had the world class double Pritzi / Rozeanu defeated.

More bronze medals she won at the 1947 World Cup with the American team and doubles with Davida Hawthorn and at the World Cup in 1951 in singles and doubles with Pauline Ickhoff.

Successes in the U.S. and Canada

In open American Championships she won 1949-1974 a total of 29 first places, 9 times in single, double and 12 times 8 times in the mixed doubles. At the Open Championship of Canada, she won 11 times in singles and 30 times in doubles or mixed. In 1958, she was out in the American rankings at number one.

Others

In the course of ping-pong diplomacy, she visited with the Canadian Table Tennis Team China, saying it also with the Prime Minister Zhou Enlai.

1980 Leah Neuberger was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1999 on the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.

Results from the ITTF database