SHE REGULARLY beats top seniors - so the bookies closed the book on Tin-Tin Ho retaining her English Primary School title this week.
The 10-year-old from Bayswater duly delivered the singles title and helped England to the team title in Blackburnover the weekend, when she easily beat Beth Roberts, from Wales, 3-0 in the individual competition and breezed through all her games in the team event. Her devoted father, Charles, has targeted an Olympic place in 2016 at the very least for the girl who was introduced to the game before she was born.
Charles Ho bounced a table tennis ball next to his wife's womb 200 times a day throughout her pregnancy, believing it was her destiny to play the sport. Her brother, Ping, 13, also plays and made the semi-finals of the Cadet Open of the ETTA Cheltenham Four-Star Open.
However, his usual doubles partner, Lewis Gray, from Kent, ran out a 3-0 winner, before young Ho exited at the last 16 stage of the junior (one grade higher) competition to Patrick Thomas, 3-0.
