Ooi Teik Hock - Citizendia

Ooi Teik Hock was a Malayan badminton player who won Malayan national titles and represented his country in team and individual competition between 1939 and 1958. Malays (Melayu are an Ethnic group of Austronesian peoples predominantly inhabiting the Malay Peninsula, the east coast of Sumatra, the coast Badminton is a racquet sport played by either two opposing players (singles or two opposing pairs (doubles who take positions on opposite halves of a rectangular court Teik Hock played on four consecutive Malayan Thomas Cup (men's international) teams (1949, 1952, 1955, 1958) the first three of which claimed world titles. The Thomas Cup, sometimes called the World Men's Team Championships, is an international Badminton competition among teams representing member nations of the The 1949 Thomas Cup was the inaugural tournament of Thomas Cup, the most important men's Badminton team competition in the world The Thomas Cup competition is an international team tournament for supremacy in men's Badminton (its female counterpart is the Uber Cup) The Thomas Cup competition is an international team tournament for supremacy in men's Badminton (its female counterpart is the Uber Cup) The Thomas Cup competition is an international team tournament for supremacy in men's Badminton (its female counterpart is the Uber Cup) Paired with a variety of partners, he was undefeated in eight Thomas Cup doubles matches, while winning four of his six singles matches^[1]. He shared the men's doubles title at the prestigious All-England Championships in 1949 with Teoh Seng Khoon and in 1954 with Ong Poh Lim. The All England Open Badminton Championships, or simply All England, is one of the world's oldest and most prestigious Badminton tournaments Ong Poh Lim (1922 - 2003 was a Malayan/Singaporean Badminton player who won numerous national and international titles from the late 1940's to the early 1960's In the '49 All-England's he was runner-up in men's singles to the legendary Dave Freeman^[2]. Dr David G Freeman ( 6 September 1920 &ndash 28 June 2001) was an American Badminton player from California who became

References

^ Herbert Scheele ed. , The International Badminton Federation Handbook for 1967 (Canterbury, Kent, England: J. A. Jennings Ltd. 1967) 66-78.
^ Scheele, 166-168.

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