Meet the Bribar Table Tennis Ambassadors
Tom Lodziak
Tom Lodziak is a professional Table Tennis coach based in Cambridge, UK. He helps players of all standards to improve through 1-to-1 coaching, training camps and online coaching. Tom has a very popular YouTube channel with over 50 million views!
Over the years, Tom has learned a great deal through coaching from and working with many top players and coaches including Richard Prause (Timo Boll’s former coach), Rade Markovic, Desmond Douglas, Matthew Syed, Craig Bryant, Mark Mitchell, Ferenc Horvath, as well as training overseas at the Werner Schlager Academy and GV Hennebont.
In addition to his coaching, he still likes to compete and play in a variety of competitions, including local league, British league and veterans’ tournaments in the UK and overseas. You can find out more about his 1 to1 coaching and training camps on his website: tabletenniscoach.me.uk
Head to Tom’s YouTube channel where he has over 265k subscribers – you can watch a huge number of video tutorials here: youtube.com/c/tomlodziak
You can also join his online academy, where he provides coaching to players all around the world. You will get access to exclusive coaching content, including in-depth courses, a training drill library, video analysis, live sessions and much more. Find out more at tomsttacademy.com
Craig Bryant
Craig Bryant (or you may know him as 'The TT Service Guy') has had a long-term partnership with Bribar Table Tennis, he's been supported by Joola for several years through Bribar, but he's just very recently joined the Tibhar family.
Craig, renowned as a player for his effective serves, has been helping players of all levels, from all parts of the world, develop their serving skills. Showing some impressive results with his unique and effective online coaching. Including working with top level international players, with some very substantial results. For the past 18 months, Craig has been working closely with German International Benedikt Duda. They began working together back in November 2023, when Duda was ranked 42 in the World. With Craig’s input, advice and coaching (as well as Benedikt improving himself in other areas of the game too) Duda has raised his ranking to 11 in the World. With his sights firmly set on securing a top 10 position.
This has led to Craig working with other international players, motivated to better themselves within the serve and return aspects of the game. One of which being another German international, Josephina Neumann. Again, the initial focus being around serve and return, with the ongoing support developing into match reviews, psychological / match support and guidance etc. Back in November 2024, when they began working together, Josi was ranked 18 in the World, in the Under 15 category. She now finds herself ranked at number 6 in the World, just before she transitions into the Under 17 category. Craig’s online coaching is accessible to all, he continues to work with players from all over the World, from the USA, Singapore and Australia to France, Spain and Germany and many more. If you’re interested in working with Craig on your serves, you can find his contact details at the bottom of the page.
This season Craig has also been working with several National Associations, Belgium (Flemish and Walonie), Wales and Luxembourg. Working in small groups and on a one-to-one basis with Olympians such as Luka Mladenovic and Sarah DeNutte and other professional players like Adrien Rassenfosse and Martin Allegro. Craig continues to offer physical sessions covering all aspects of the game, to clubs, teams and associations in the UK as well as overseas. If you’re interested in having Craig deliver a session for your organisation, you can find his details below.
Not to mention the well-established and ever popular Bryant & Gertsen Training Camps. Craig, along with Stephen Gertsen deliver 3-4 training camps per year, dotted around the UK. Their camps cater for players of all levels and offer a great balance improving your game, as well as enjoying the social side of table tennis.
Craig’s Info:
Instagram: Craig Bryant – The Table Tennis Service Guy (@thettserviceguy)
YouTube:Â (4) Craig Bryant – The Table Tennis Service Guy – YouTube
TikTok: TheTTServiceGuy (@thettserviceguy) | TikTok
Facebook: The Table Tennis Service Guy | Facebook
Email:Â coachcraigtt@gmail.com
Emma Harradine
Emma began her table tennis journey at the age of nine, after being invited to an inter-village competition in Hertfordshire. Despite being one of the youngest participants, she won the event—defeating players as old as 17. Her potential was quickly recognised by the event organiser, who invited her to local coaching sessions and sparked the beginning of a lifelong passion for the sport.
Emma began her table tennis journey at the age of nine, after being invited to an inter-village competition in Hertfordshire. Despite being one of the youngest participants, she won the event—defeating players as old as 17. Her potential was quickly recognised by the event organiser, who invited her to local coaching sessions and sparked the beginning of a lifelong passion for the sport.
A highly successful junior career followed. Emma achieved a national ranking of number 12, won multiple county titles in Hertfordshire, and was crowned Under-19 English Schools Champion. As a senior, she continued to perform at an elite level, reaching number 14 on the England ranking list and making it to the quarter-finals of the English National Championships.
Throughout her development, Emma was fortunate to be coached by some of England’s most respected figures, including Nick Jarvis, Jackie Bellinger, and David Fairholm, who helped shape her into the player she is today.
It is as a veteran that Emma has enjoyed some of her greatest success. She has won eleven national titles, including four singles, held the England number 1 position in two veteran age groups, and reached the quarter-finals of the World Veteran Championships in Stockholm.
Emma remains a dedicated and competitive player. She regularly competes in the Bristol League, represents Avon in both senior and veteran County Championships, plays in the Veteran’s British League, and is a regular on the VETTS Masters circuit across the UK.
Alongside her playing career, Emma is a highly accomplished table tennis coach with over 30 years of experience. A trained PE teacher and currently Head of PE at a large secondary school of over 2,000 students, she combines her educational expertise with her passion for the sport. She holds the UKCC Level 3 Head Coach qualification.
Emma has a wealth of experience working with beginners, school-aged players, and students preparing for GCSE PE assessments. She also supports PE teachers across schools, delivering training to help embed table tennis in the curriculum. Beyond the classroom, Emma coaches league players one-to-one, helping them fine-tune specific areas of their game.
Emma is also passionate about getting more women and girls into table tennis. As a Women and Girls Ambassador, she has run female-only coaching days designed to create supportive environments for women and girls of all levels. She has recently joined forces with Tom Lodziak to produce video tutorials featuring female players, helping to inspire a more inclusive and balanced portrayal of the game online.
In 2023, Emma was selected for the SHECoaches programme – a two-year initiative aimed at developing the next generation of female talent and performance coaches. Most recently, in January 2025, she was invited to attend the ETTU Stage 1 Qualifiers in Sarajevo with the England Senior Women’s Team, where she had the opportunity to shadow and work alongside the England Head Coach.
With decades of experience, both as a player and coach, Emma continues to inspire, compete, and contribute meaningfully to the sport at every level.
For more information go to emmattcoach.co.uk
Paul Drinkhall
Paul started playing table tennis in 1997 after watching his granddad Ray play in a local league match and began attending the Ormesby Table Tennis Club shortly after with his brother Bryn.
A number one ranked player and national title holder in both singles and doubles in every age group from Under 10 right through to Seniors, Paul has won more national titles than any other player in English history and won his first men’s senior national title in 2007, aged just 17 years old, and has since won the event on 6 other occasions with his last to date being in 2024. He achieved his first UK senior number 1 ranking in 2007.
On the European front, Paul was the number 1 ranked cadet in Europe and won the European Youth Championships in Prague in 2005. Winning numerous competitions throughout Europe, Paul was the number one ranked junior in Europe in both his penultimate and final year in the age category and finished his junior career with at the European Youth Championships in Terni, winning the singles, junior doubles and mixed doubles, before winning a silver medal in the World Junior Championships in 2008.
Following this success, Paul was shortlisted for the BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year in 2005, and finished in second place to Theo Walcott in 2006, and was second again to Tom Daley in 2007.
Paul has won the British League, Belgian Super League, Polish Superliga and German Bundesliga, and has also played professionally in France and Italy.
He has represented Great Britian at three Olympic Games, reaching the last 16 in Rio in 2016.
He is the only British player ever to win two pro tour events, winning in Spain in 2014 and Serbia in 2019, and reached the final in both Russia and Australia. He is the only British player to ever qualify for the World pro Tour finals. Paul also won a WTT Tour event in the Men’s doubles in Manchester in 2025, partnering Sam Walker.
He is a multiple Commonwealth Games medallist, winning Gold in both the Men’s doubles with Liam Pitchford in Australia in 2018 and Birmingham in 2022, and Mixed Doubles with wife Joanna in Glasgow in 2014.
In 2016, Paul was part of the England team which won bronze medals at the World Team Championships in Malaysia, and in 2018 also won a bronze medal by reaching the semi-finals of the ITTF Team World Team Cup.
Paul has been a TIBHAR contracted player since 2015 and plays with his signature Paul Drinkhall Power Spin Carbon blade and K3 Hybrid rubbers on both sides.
Paul played last season in Germany with TSV Windsbach.
Paul lives in Surrey with Jo and his two kids Dougie and Bonnie, who certainly keep him busy when he’s not training or travelling to compete.