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Matthew Syed

Britain's most successful player of recent times .Former England International and World ranked player. Four times English and three times Commonwealth Champion. Represented Great Britain in the Sydney Olympics 2000. Had one of the most attractive styles in world table tennis .Sports commentator for the BBC, Eurosport and Sky.

Name:                      Matthew Syed

DOB:                        02/11/70

TT Involvement:       28 years

Club:                         Kingfisher & Cestas (FRA)

Country Represented:England

Coach:                        Peter Charters

Style of Play:               Defensive

Training Schedule:      Formerly 20 Hours per week

World Ranking:            Former No. 24

European Ranking:       Former No. 13

National Ranking:         Former No. 1



Titles Held: 

  • 3 times Commonwealth Champion
  • 4 times English Champion
  • Czech Open Gold Medal
  • Hungarian Open Silver Medal
  • English Junior Champion
  • Twice Cadet English Champion

 

Best Win:    Jorgen Perrson (Czech open 1996) 



Equipment:       Rubber F/H   Sriver L

                         Rubber B/H   Feint Long II

                         Blade            Defence ST

                          Shoes          Energyforce 1 

 




Favourte Music:   Abba

Favourite Film:  Matrix

Favourite Food:  Chinese





Comments about Butterfly:     Best brand in the market by far. Quality, durable and unrivalled reliability.

Comments about Table Tennis:    The greatest sport on earth. Endlessly facinating and a joy to play or watch.

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Lionel Messi, Rafael Nadal, Wayne Rooney, Tiger Woods — significant riches aside, what do these men have in common? Natural sporting ability that mere mortals such as you and I can only dream about? Not so, says Matthew Syed, the Times columnist and three-time Commonwealth table tennis champion, whose book, Bounce, challenges the idea that top sportsmen — as well as experts in other fields — enjoy God-given gifts that the rest of us lack. David Beckham was not born with the ability to take a brilliant free kick, Roger Federer is not blessed with extraordinarily sharp reactions: these skills were developed as a result of hard work and practice. The first part of Bounce demolishes the idea that talent is the key to success. The path to the top, Syed argues, is a combination of opportunity — being in the right place at the right time — and hard work. Syed uses his own experience to demonstrate the importance of opportunity: his parents, neither of whom was a table tennis player, decided to buy a tournament-specification table for Syed and his brother; both came to love the sport, spurring each other on. The head sports coach at their school was a table tennis fanatic and he invited them to join a local table tennis club. The importance of this club cannot be overstated. For a period in the 1980s, Syed’s neighbourhood produced a disproportionate number of the UK’s outstanding table tennis players — six of them lived on the Syeds’ street.
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