Alan Ransome – Candidate for the English Table Tennis Association’s Chairman position in the last round of elections this month – is receiving strong backing from several major figures within the sport.

This includes 3 life members of the ETTA : -

• The former Deputy Chairman, Tony Chatwin
  
• Development Chairman, Mike Lewis
  
• The country’s leading referee, Richard Scruton

Ransome’s support is coming from all sectors of the table tennis community, including Rhys Evans, the father of Gavin Evans, Britain’s leading junior player, and Gareth Herbert, the Commonwealth Games 2002 gold medal winner, now the head coach at the major London coaching centre, TTK Greenhouse.

Other big supporters of the Ransome campaign are Bill Thornton, the proprietor of Thornton Sport & Leisure and Dot Macfarlane who is a prominent member of the VETTS Society.