William Henzell – Australian Table Tennis player
William Henzell
is a right-handed Australian Table Tennis player
generally regarded to be the greatest player Australia has produced. He was born (born 1982) in Adelaide and moved to Sweden at the age of 14. His highest international ranking was 90 in 2012. He has represented Australia many times, including securing Australia’s first Commonwealth Games table tennis singles medal with a silver medal at the 2006 Commonwealth Games. William has represented Australia at 3 Olympic Games (2004, 2008, 2012) with a career best finish of 17th in 2012 – Australia’s highest singles placing ever. He was inducted into the Australia Table Tennis Hall of Fame at the age of 26, 20 years younger than any other of the inductees.
In 2010 William, in partnership with top Australian player Robert Frank, created the online table tennis coaching website ttedge.com
Career achievements
International
• Represented Australia
• 2004, 2008, 2012 Olympic Games
• 2002, 2006, 2010, 2014 Commonwealth Games
• 8 world championships
Achievements
• 2006 Commonwealth Games Men’s Singles Silver Medal
• 13 times Australian National Champion – 2001, 02, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15
• 5 times Australian Open Champion – 2005, 07, 08, 09, 10
• 10 times Oceania Singles Champion – 2004, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015
National
• Australian Champion (13 times) 2001, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015)
• Australia – Ranked no 1 (14 times) 2001-02, 04-15
• International – 99 – August 2014
source
English