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Date of Birth: Dec. 12, 1958 Residence: San Ramon Education: BA University of Hawaii Ethnicity: Chinese Rating: 2132 Style: Japanese Penhold all around offensive/defensive Equipment: Butterfly Senkoh-1 with Mark V Sponsor: None Clubs Played: Palo Alto TTC |
Beginning table-tennis at the age of 7 in Hong Kong, the table-tennis world welcomed Horace Cheng. He grew up playing lots of table-tennis and played 20 hours a week while in high school. Horace plays a very unique style where his is as comfortable looping and attacking as he is defending and lobbing. Table-tennis is shown frequently on TV in Hong Kong and the 2004 Olympic Silver Medalists in Men's Doubles are from Hong Kong and are currently very famous there as a medal for the small country is a rare, very rare, feat. Horace's biggest accomplishment is winning the Under 2100 rating event at the 1993 US Nationals in Las Vegas, the same title won in 2005 by San Francisco's Kevin Phung. Horace loves the speed of table-tennis and hopes various events like the Northern California Table Tennis League will help make the sport more popular. His favorite player is Jan-Ove Waldner, a player idolized by countless millions around the world. Horace works as an IT manager at Kaiser Pemanente today and enjoys going skiing in the wintertime.