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Bryan Merrett

British table tennis player

Bryan Reginald Merrett was a male international table tennis player from England.

01Table tennis career

He won a bronze medal at the 1955 World Table Tennis Championships in the Swaythling Cup (men's team event) with Richard Bergmann, Brian Kennedy, Johnny Leach and Alan Rhodes and for England.

He was a former England No 1, played in 100 internationals and won the Welsh Open in Cardiff in 1952. He won two English National Table Tennis Championships titles in singles and doubles.

02Personal life

He married Shirley Hotchkins in 1957 and they spent their honeymoon on a Russian table tennis tour. He died in August 2001 aged 66.

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