Tin-Tin Ho and Connor Green secure England's first WTT mixed doubles title

Tin-Tin Ho and Connor Green have been celebrated as England’s first-ever mixed doubles champions at WTT events, with Table Tennis England and an X post hailing the outcome as a historic milestone for English table tennis. The X post read, "Introducing England's first ever mixed doubles @WTTGlobal champions! Huge congratulations Tin-Tin Ho & Connor Green! #tabletennis #england."

Table Tennis England’s WTT-feeder reporting shows Ho and Green entered WTT competition seeded three in mixed doubles, and the pair defeated Mohammad Abdulwahhab and Aia Mohamed of host nation Qatar in the last 16 in three straight games to reach the quarter-finals. Table Tennis England reported the seeded English duo were due to face Tan Zhao Ray and Tan Zhao Yun of Singapore in the mixed-doubles quarter-finals.

The wider WTT-feeder Doha draw placed Tin-Tin Ho, Tianer Yu and Connor Green into the main draw. Table Tennis England listed Connor Green’s world ranking as WR 258 and recorded his singles result in Doha, Ryoichi Yoshiyama of Japan beating Connor Green 3-0, 11-8, 11-8, 11-8, in the Men’s Singles Round of 32. In the Women’s Singles Round of 32, Table Tennis England recorded Tin-Tin Ho, WR 223, beating Suhana Saini of India 3-1, 7-11, 11-8, 11-6, 11-9, while Tan Zhao Yun, WR 151, beat Tianer Yu, WR 225, 3-0, 11-7, 11-8, 11-9.

Table Tennis England’s match reporting also included the verbatim passage, "They were behind for most of the third, which they lost 11-8, but led 7-5 and 9-8 in the fourth before their opponents won three points in a row to set up a quarter-final against top seeds Qin Yuxuan & Zong Geman of China." That sentence appears in the event write-ups and captures the fine margins in several doubles ties at these WTT-level competitions.

Connor Green’s breakout form has run through recent WTT events. Nelondoner reported the 19-year-old, wildcarded into WTT Star Contender London, beat world number 53 Feng Yi-Hsin 3-1 in the first round, needing four match points in the fourth game. Green told Nelondoner, "I didn't have much expectation going into the match – I got wildcarded into the event so I'm not really supposed to be in the main draw. I felt very nervous going into it. [...] My dad was in the crowd today and I think he was also probably pretty nervous, but I haven't seen him yet." He added, "I was just trying to go through the same process – serve, try and be aggressive on the next one, and then whatever happens in the rally happens – I just tried to play freely." Nelondoner described Green turning to the Copper Box crowd and screaming in celebration while his coach raised his arms to the sky.

Tin-Tin Ho arrives at this WTT success as England No 1 and a national stalwart. Table Tennis England noted Ho is level on seven Women’s Singles national titles with Jill Parker and that a win at the Nottingham National Championships scheduled from 20-22 March would give her an eighth. In national-championship context ETTU records Ho’s dramatic comeback over Tianer Yu, Ho recovering from 0-3 down to win 4-3 with scores 7-11, 9-11, 5-11, 11-7, 11-6, 11-5, 11-5.

National context remains rich: ETTU lists Connor and Anna Green as last year’s national mixed-doubles winners, Andrew Baggaley as a three-time former champion, Paul Drinkhall and Sam Walker as Men’s Doubles winners with Drinkhall on 15 titles, and Liam Pitchford as a seven-time Men’s Singles champion currently not competing while recovering from an operation.

One notable gap remains in the public record supplied to press: neither the X announcement nor Table Tennis England’s event write-ups supplied the WTT final opponent, match scoreline, date or venue for the mixed-doubles title that has been announced. That information will be important to complete the match-level record of Ho and Green’s WTT triumph. For now, the result stands as a landmark for English table tennis, pairing Ho’s status as England No 1 and national-record chaser with Connor Green’s rapid rise from wildcard upsets to WTT mixed-doubles champion.