Author : Graham Frankel
Comments : A carefully crafted book with a serious look at the way the Game in the UK has been drifting over the last 50 years. Plenty of food for thought. There is no doubt that the other European Nations have been leaving us behind in the organisation and administration of our game and I suspect that there are many others like Graham who feel there is a need for change. A interesting take on the introduction of synthetic bat coverings over the last 70 years. All of course recognised by Ivor Montagu in his far sighted ‘problems of racket standardisation’ of 1959.
Author : Graham Frankel
Comments : Graham Frankel, who did a good job on his ‘Ping’ of 2020, reaches out with his first fictional account of a young lady he has called Kate Beavis. The book describes Kate’s development and the family issues and also the growth of the fictional Shawton TTC. I agree with the front cover description of ‘an inspiring Table Tennis Story’.The intriguing story is well written and I thoroughly enjoyed it. The book does som e futuristic estimates of how our game will progress into standardisation of racquets, no coaching between games, professional players, amongst others. I wonder?? I remember the sadly missed Maurice Goldstein telling me in about 1980 ‘We should never have allowed the bloody sponge in the first place’. Things don’t always change for the better.