1939 World Table Tennis Championships – Women's singles

The 1939 World Table Tennis Championships women's singles was the 13th edition of the women's singles championship.[1][2] Vlasta Depetrisová defeated Gertrude Pritzi in the final by three sets to two, to win the title.[3] The tournament suffered from lack of entries due to the troubles in Europe and the forthcoming World War II. Only 11 men's teams and 5 women's teams entered the Championships. Hungary, the United States and Austria were the major nations missing.[4]

1939 Women's singles
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After the annexation of Austria by Germany, the Austrian Pritzi had to participate under the Nazi Germany flag.

Results

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Round of 16 Quarterfinals Semifinals Final
  Věra Votrubcová
  w/o   Votrubcová 1
  Gertrude Pritzi 3   Pritzi 3
  Lina Costantinidis 0   Pritzi 21 22 21
  Marie Kettnerová 3   Kettnerová 10 20 19
  Sári Kolosvari 0   Kettnerová 3
  Mabel Kressat 3   Kressati 0
  A. Bellanti 2   Pritzi 19 21 21 19 9
  Vlasta Depetrisová w/o   Depetrisová 21 16 16 21 21
    Depetrisová 3
  Angelica Adelstein 2   Adelstein 1
  Hilde Bussmann 1+   Depetrisová 22 21 21
  Doreya Karim Fahmy   Naili 20 12 19
    Fahmy 0
  Samiha Naili 3   Naili 3
  O. Pesarini 0

+ withdrew

See also

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List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists

References

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  1. ^ "List of Winners". All About Tennis.
  2. ^ "1939 results" (PDF). International Table Tennis Federation. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-04-12.
  3. ^ Montague, Trevor (2004). A-Z of Sport, pages 699-700. The Bath Press. ISBN 0-316-72645-1.
  4. ^ "USA team - Abe Berenbaum". team USA. Archived from the original on April 5, 2015.