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

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

Table tennis career edit

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 edit

She married Kenneth Mathews on 18 May 1968. She then had two daughters who both married and have had a daughter and a son each. [6]

See also edit

References edit

  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. ^ a b "1967 Corbillon Cup results" (PDF). Table Tennis England.
  6. ^ "Wedding Bells" (PDF). Table Tennis England.