1956 World Table Tennis Championships – Women's singles

none 1956 Women's singles 1955 1957 1956 World Table Tennis Championships The 1956 World Table Tennis Championships women's singles was the 23rd edition of the women's singles championship.http://www.allabouttabletennis.com/world-table-tennis-championships-medal-winners.html List of Winners All About Tennishttp://www.ittf.com/museum/WorldChWSingles.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20120412005823/http://www.ittf.com/museum/WorldChWSingles.pdf dead 2012-04-12 1956 results International Table Tennis Federation Tomi Okawa defeated Kiiko Watanabe in the final by three sets to two, to win the title.Montague Trevor A-Z of Sport, pages 699-700 2004 The Bath Press 0-316-72645-1 Results Round of 16 Quarterfinals Semifinals Final 250 20 JPN Tomi Okawa 21 21 20 21 JPN Kiyoko Tasaka 14 10 22 13 KOR Wie Sang Sook 21 21 21 JPN Chizuko Suda 16 13 6 ENG Ann Haydon 21 21 21 JPN Kikuko Yamakawa 7 6 6 JPN Fujie Eguchi 21 21 21 JPN Chicko Ikuno 18 16 8 ROU 1952 Ella Zeller 18 21 21 21 JPN Shizuyo Narahara 21 13 16 13 ENG Diane Rowe 21 21 23 JPN Taeko Namba 12 9 21 HKG 1910 Baguio Wong 21 21 21 JPN Hideko Nakayama 15 14 9 CHN Chiu Chung-Hui 14 22 23 13 JPN Kiiko Watanabe 21 20 25 21 JPN Okawa 21 21 21 KOR Wie Sang Sook 16 17 10 JPN Eguchi 21 22 21 ENG Haydon 13 20 16 ROU 1952 Zeller 21 21 21 ENG Rowe D 8 8 17 HKG 1910 Baguio Wong 12 21 22 21 19 JPN Watanabe 21 17 24 12 21 JPN Okawa 21 16 21 17 21 JPN Eguchi 17 21 15 21 13 ROU 1952 Zeller 21 21 21 16 15 JPN Watanabe 16 14 23 21 21 JPN Okawa 21 13 23 9 21 JPN Watanabe 15 21 21 21 16 See also List of World Table Tennis Championships medalists References - Category:1956 in women's table tennis Category:Women's events at the World Table Tennis Championships