ITTF World Parkinson’s Class 1 Gold Medalist 2021 and showcase gold medalist 2025 Jan Fuller joins me on Serving up Trouble to talk about her table tennis journey. Jan started playing TT as a young woman. A Parkinson’s diagnosis in 2012 led her to return to the sport, prompted by extraordinary research into the benefits of TT for the condition.

Now she’s competed at the highest level, on the world stage!

Find out more about Parkinson's Table Tennis

Parkinson's UK: https://www.parkinsons.org.uk/magazine/stories/table-tennis-and-parkinsons

Table Tennis England Parkinson's Toolkit:

https://www.tabletennisengland.co.uk/news/2025/how-you-can-unleash-the-power-of-table-tennis-to-help-people-with-parkinsons/

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Season 2 Episode 6

Mari Baldwin joins me to discuss the different stages in a table tennis player’s early career. The steps from one age group to the next can be steeper than expected!

We also chat about our experiences being queer in the sport with lots of laughs along the way!

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Season 2 Episode 5

'Underspin delves beneath the pressure that forges a champion, and the vulnerability that makes a coming of age: the crackling intensity of a match, the push and pull of first love, and the great injustices committed within our closest relationships.'

Move over Marty Supreme, this week I'm joined by sports writer and novelist Emily Zhao to discuss her debut book Underspin!

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