Anna Hursey produced another impressive display to reach the last eight of the WTT Youth Contender tournament in Portugal. The 14-year-old saw off Germany’s European Top 10 champ Annett Kaufmann in her last 16 tie in the U17 girls singles.

Table tennis prodigy Anna Hursey has made history again after becoming the first Welsh player to be ranked No 1 in Europe at U15 level. The 14-year-old – who became the youngest person to ever compete for Wales when aged 11 at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Australia – is top in the latest rankings.

Anna Hursey claimed a superb bronze medal at the ETTU Europe Youth Top 10 event in Berlin. The Cardiff-schoolgirl lost just two of her nine matches in Germany in her first tournament since table tennis was suspended by COVID-19.

Charlotte Carey’s table tennis exploits have seen her travel the globe for  Wales as well as basing herself in Europe playing against the best. Since leaving her Ebbw Vale home aged 16 to pursue her career, Carey has lived in Hungary and Germany and for several years in Sweden.

Anna Hursey completed a hat-trick of wins as she made a perfect start to the Europe Youth Top-10 tournament in Berlin. The 14-year-old was one of only two girls to finish unbeaten after the opening day of the Cadet competition.

Wales’ only single purpose, full-time table tennis club – Cardiff City Community Table Tennis Club – were facing a bleak future when lockdown badly hit the club’s income. But funding from Sport Wales has allowed the club to safely re-open as Graham Thomas reports. The club that helped launch Anna Hursey on the road to stardom is weathering the storms caused by the coronavirus pandemic – thanks to cash from the Be Active Wales Fund. Cardiff City Community Table Tennis Club was hit hard by the lockdown, but like a flashing Hursey backhand they have come back fighting.

Cardiff schoolgirl Nell Desir is one of the fastest young sprinters in the world. The Cardiff Archer boasts the second-fastest time ever by an under-12 athlete over 60m and has posted half-a-dozen of the fastest European age-grade times recorded.

Welsh table tennis prodigy Anna Hursey has been unable to return to her Chinese training base because of the coronavirus pandemic. The teenager – who rose to prominence in 2018 when she competed at the Commonwealth Games at the age of just 11 – moved to China last year to train full-time alongside top-quality players. Carmarthen-born Hursey’s mother Phoebe is Chinese and the 13-year-old speaks Mandarin.

Anna Hursey underlined her potential after making it through to the last 16 of the Junior Girls and Cadet Girls at the Thailand Open in Bangkok. The 12-year-old claimed the scalp of Malaysia’s 2018 Commonwealth Games bronze medallist Karen Lyne in the Junior Girls. Hursey’s victory set her up for the last 16 encounter on […]

Welsh table tennis sensation Anna Hursey produced a stunning victory to reach the last 16 of the Junior Girls at the Thailand Open.

Charlotte Carey agonisingly bowed out of the World Table Tennis Championships in Budapest after an epic hour long duel. Wales’s No 1 took her South Korean opponent Zion Lee – ranked 60 places higher than her in the world at 77 – to a deciding game in the best of seven battle.

Anna Hursey and Lara Whitton are fast becoming the best of friends and the biggest of rivals as they rise through the ranks of Welsh table tennis. The world learned about the prodigious talent of Cardiff High School student Hursey when she became the youngest Wales representative at last year’s Commonwealth Games in Australia at the age of 11. She has since travelled further around the world to train and play despite her tender years and is currently ranked at No 5 in Europe and No 14 in the World at Under 15. Next month, she will join Charlotte Carey, Josh Stacey and Callum Evans in representing Wales at the European Senior Championships in Budapest – two months before her 13th birthday.