Anna Hursey will bid to take another big step towards earning selection for the Olympic Games this week when she chases table tennis world ranking points in Saudi Arabia. The 17-year-old Wales and British number one female player broke into the world’s top 100 earlier this year and is currently ranked 97.

Anna Hursey has set her sights on a place in the Great Britain team for the Paris Olympics after breaking into the world’s top 100 women players. The latest World Table Tennis (WTT) rankings show Hursey placed at No.93, making the 17-year-old from Cardiff Britain’s highest-ranked player.

National coach Josh Morgan believes a healthy medal tally from the Home Nations International tournament proves the future strength of Welsh table tennis will extend beyond Anna Hursey. In a week where 17-year-old Hursey broke into the top 100 women players in the world, other Welsh youngsters underlined their protentional in Bangor at the weekend.

Anna Hursey has become a contender for the Paris Olympics next year after seeing her world table tennis ranking rocket up from 163 to number 106. The 17-year-old – already a veteran of two Commonwealth Games with Wales – needs to break into the world’s top 80 for automatic selection for the Great Britain squad and is heading in the right direction.

Anna Hursey has spoken of her pride after returning from Poland with a bronze medal at the European Youth Championships in Poland. The 17-year-old Wales Commonwealth Games star became the first Welsh player to win a medal at the championships for 25 years, since Adam Robertson in 1998.

Merthyr Tydfil’s sporting heritage is rich and well-documented, but a new chapter is being written thanks to an innovative tie-up between the town’s college and Table Tennis Wales. The famous sporting sons and daughters of the old industrial town – such as boxers Howards Winstone and Johnny Owen, judoka Natalie Powell, footballer Mark Pembridge and netballer Chelsea Lewis – could soon be joined by the next generation of table tennis internationals.

BIRMINGHAM – Comments from Charlotte CAREY (WAL) and Anna HURSEY (WAL) after they beat WONG Xin Ru (SGP) and ZHOU Jingyi (SGP) in the women’s doubles bronze medal match at The NEC on Monday. Charlotte CAREY (WAL) – bronze

By Harry Corish Wales’ greatest male track and field para athlete, Aled Sion Davies, has labelled the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games a fantastic success for integrating para and able bodied sport together as the Games draws to a close tonight with the closing ceremony. Davies, who won yet another gold in the t41-41/T61-64 discus event, […]

By Harry Corish  Welsh female Table Tennis players are hoping their historic fourth placed finish in the team event will inspire them for success in the individual category.   Whilst Wales fell agonisingly short of a medal in fourth place they can take the many positives from their record breaking run, finishing in their highest ever […]

By Harry Corish Anna Hursey celebrated being called up for her second Commonwealth Games by winning funding from the Charitable Social Enterprise GLL Sports Foundation. Hursey, who became Wales’ youngest ever Commonwealth Games athlete four years ago at the Gold Coast Games at the age of 11, has now been named in the 2022 Table […]

Anna Hursey says keeping cool was key as she claimed her first title on the international stage with victory in the WTT Youth Contender tournament in Portugal. The 14-year-old beat world No 10 Elena Zaharia of Romania – ranked 15 places above the Welsh ace in the ITTF lists – in the U17 girls singles in Vila Real on Sunday night.

Anna Hursey underlined her status as one of Europe’s top young players by winning the inaugural WTT Youth Contender event in Portugal. The 14-year-old triumphed in the U17 girls singles after a thrilling 3-2 victory over 16-year-old Elena Zaharia in Vila Real.