Karenza Mathews (née Smith)
Personal information
Nationality England
Born1950
Bristol

Karenza Mathews (née Smith) is a female former international table tennis player from England.[1]

Table tennis career

She represented England at five World Table Tennis Championships in the Corbillon Cup (women's team event) from 1967 to 1975.[2] She also reached the quarter-finals of the Women's Doubles with Mary Shannon-Wright[3] and the Mixed Doubles with Denis Neale in 1967.[4]

Karenza was England number one and won 231 senior caps and won a bronze medal in the team event at the European Table Tennis Championships in 1970.[5]

She won an English Open title and 15 English National Table Tennis Championships titles.[5]

Personal life

She married Kenneth Mathews on 18 May 1968.[6]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Profile". Table Tennis Guide.
  2. ↑ "Corbillon Cup results". tischtennis-infos.de.
  3. ↑ "Women's doubles results" (PDF). International Table Tennis Federation. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 April 2012.
  4. ↑ "Mixed doubles results" (PDF). International Table Tennis Federation. Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 June 2012.
  5. 1 2 "1967 Corbillon Cup results" (PDF). Table Tennis England.
  6. ↑ "Wedding Bells" (PDF). Table Tennis England.


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