Ruth Aarons

Ruth Hughes Aarons ( born June 11, 1918 in Stamford, Connecticut, † June 6, 1980 in Los Angeles, California ) was the first and only U.S. table tennis world champion.

Family

Aaron was the daughter of Alfred E. Aarons, the owner and operator of the Avon Theatre in Chicago, and the opera singer Leila Hughes Aaron. She had a brother named Lisle and a half-brother Alex A. Aarons.

Career

At 15, she started to American tournaments to play. It had its most successful period 1934 to 1937, when she won all the tournaments in which they participated. In those four years, it secured at the U.S. Championships each title in singles and mixed doubles, the latter with four different mixed- partners ( Sam Silberman, Sidney Heitner, Victor Barna and Robert Blattner ). But your greatest successes were undoubtedly the title in the women's singles. At the World Championships of 1936 in Prague ( the final against Astrid Krebsbach ) and from 1937 in Baden / Vienna

1937 won Aaron Moreover, together with the U.S. women's team, the team's World Cup.

World Cup 1937

Strange was the World Cup 1937: The final against Trude Pritzi was aborted due to timeout; the title was not awarded at the time - a curiosity in the history of table tennis. This decision has now been corrected, the ITTF: Since April 2001, Trude Pritzi and Ruth Hughes Aarons are listed as " Co - World Champions ".

After the end of the TT career

After the end of their sports career, she founded the company Aarons Enterprises inc and worked there as a manager. She supervised this well-known actors such as Shirley Jones, Jack Cassidy, George Chakiris, inter alia,

Results from the ITTF database