Jeff and the Olympics

Galen Corvan- Hughes Asked 12 years ago

Hi Jeff

I was wandering, have you entered any Olympic games and if so what Olympics did you enter and how far did you get before you were put out. Also, what age did you and Alois start playing professionally and when did you start playing when you were young, if you can remember.

Thanks, Galen

Jeff Plumb Answered 12 years ago

Hi Galen,

Thanks for the question. I was lucky enough to play in my home Olympics in Sydney 2000. I played in the doubles with Brett Clarke. We played a qualifying match the first morning of the Games to make the main draw. This match was against Cuba and we managed to win. It was the first time an Australian Men's Doubles pair won a match at the Olympics.

In the main draw we played in a round robin where we lost to Yugoslavia and Germany. The German pair was Jorg Rosskopf and Timo Boll. 

It was such a great experience to play in front of a huge home crowd.

I played a little bit of Table Tennis in primary school but I became more serious when I was 12 years old. Me and a friend joined up at the local ACT Table Tennis club and I was hooked!