Theo Bishop
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Theo was born with cerebral palsy and started playing table tennis at school at the age of 10 while he was recovering from surgery.
Theo was invited to his local club where BPTT Performance squad athlete Fliss Pickard was a member and with her as a role model and mentor he began to improve.
Theo joined BPTT in 2015 and made his international debut in Spain in 2018. His first international win in singles came in the Costa Brava Spanish Open in 2021 and he has continued to improve, taking bronze with Joshua Stacey in the men’s class 18 doubles in the Egypt Open in 2022 – his first international medal. In June 2022 he represented GB at the European Para Youth Games, reaching the quarterfinals of the men’s class 7 singles and taking silver in the men’s class 16 doubles with Ryan Henry.
He achieved his first gold medal in the US Open in July 2023, combining with Will Bayley to win the men’s class 14 doubles, and made his major championship debut in Sheffield two months later where he beat higher ranked opponents to progress from his group and beat the very experienced Miroslav Jambor from Slovakia, bronze medallist in 2019 and a former class 8 Paralympic medallist, before impressing in a four-set quarterfinal loss to the reigning European champion Jean-paul Montanus.
In 2024 Theo reached his first men’s singles final, losing to teammate Will Bayley in the final of the Kazakhstan Open. He played with credit at the Paralympic World Qualification Tournament, losing out on a place in the knockout stages on countback and is now focused on the 2028 Paralympic Games in Los Angeles.
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