England plays Spain Table Tennis match at Gateshead

The English and Spanish Women's teams square off at Gateshead in the qualification tie for the European championships. Kelly Sibley, Joanna Parker, Hannah Hicks (Coach Alan cooke), are expected to take on Shen Yanfei, Sara Ramirez and Galia Dvorak.

The venue is the Gateshead Leisure Centre and the date is 29 January. There are concessions on the ticket price for kids and for those over 60.

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Drinkhall selected for the London Olympics

Paul Drinkhall, former runner-up of the World Junior Table Tennis Championships, has been selected to represent Britain in the London Olympic Games. He will be joined by Liam Pitchford and Andrew Baggaley. The Women's team comprises of Joanna Parker, Na Liu, and Kelly Sibley.

Paul has recently been selected by Werder Bremen to play at this season's Bundlesliga (German league), where some of the best players in the World compete. Chuang Chih Yuan, Adrian Crisan, Constatin Cioti will be his team mates at Bremen, where he will stay and train.

He has just entered the top 100 in the World recently.

Men
Andrew Baggaley
Paul Drinkhall
Liam Pitchford

Women
Joanna Parker 
Na Liu
Kelly Sibley