Anyone who has won the Wimbledon singles title and BBC Sports Personality of the Year can count themselves among British sporting royalty.

When they also have 10 World Championships medals to their name in another sport, then the description becomes even more appropriate.

That is only part of the astonishing career of Ann Jones CBE. Before she won that title on Centre Court in SW19 – and before the two French Open singles titles which came earlier in her career – Ann (nee Haydon) was one of the finest table tennis players in the world as a teenager.

For the latest video in our countdown to the ITTF World Team Championships in London next year, we visited one of England’s most decorated table tennis medallists and someone who was on the podium the last time London hosted the Worlds in 1954.

Part of a table tennis dynasty, her father Adrian Haydon, mother Doris Jordan and aunt Marjorie Haydon were all England internationals.

Indeed, Adrian won 14 World Championships medals between the second edition of the event in 1928 in Stockholm and the 1953 edition in Bucharest.

Just one year after he won his last medal, left-handed Ann made her World Championships debut at the age of 15 at the 1954 World Championships at Wembley.

That was where she won the first two Worlds medals of her career, playing in the all-English Women’s Doubles final and winning silver alongside Kathy Best, with gold going to twins Diane & Rosalind Rowe on their 21st birthdays. The four English players combined to take team bronze.

Further medals followed in 1955, 1956, 1957 – when she lost in all three finals in Stockholm – and 1959, along with a European team gold in 1958 and a stack of other medals around the world, before she made the move into tennis.

A stellar career followed, while, off the court, she and Billie Jean King were at the forefront of the push for professionalism and female equality.

We discussed all this and more with Ann – watch the interview in full below.