Judy Williams

Judith Yvonne Williams (25 February 1944 – 16 August 2024)^[1] was a British international table tennis player from England.^[2]

When Judy Williams was a child and attending St Albans Girls Grammar School, her father Bill built a table tennis table in a room at the Dagmar House Hotel in Hatfield, which subsequently allowed teams to play in the Welwyn Hatfield league and Williams won the U15 national girls championship in 1959.^[1]

Williams made her international debut for England in January 1960 and won the Sussex Championships nine times. She played in her first world championships at the 1963 World Table Tennis Championships,^[1] and won the singles title at the Universities' Championship in 1964.^[3]

She represented England at the 1969 World Table Tennis Championships in the Corbillon Cup (women's team event) with Karenza Mathews, Jill Shirley and Mary Shannon-Wright.^[4][5]

She was also the 1969 English National Table Tennis Championships singles champion.

In 1988 she was runner up in the Over 40s women's singles and doubles events at the World Veterans Championships in Zagreb, and in 2001, won a bronze medal in the Over 50s European Veterans Championships in Denmark.^[1]

Williams worked as a translator for Shell Oil and later moved to Amsterdam. She married Kemal Çelik in 1981, but they divorced in 1999.

She died at the nursing home Eben Haezer, Wisseloord, Amsterdam.^[1]

• List of England players at the World Team Table Tennis Championships