Ethel Jacks is a former Ghanaian professional table tennis player who won three consecutive women's singles titles (1964, 1968, 1974) and three women's doubles titles (1964, 1968, 1976) at the African Table Tennis Championships. This feat earned her the nickname, Queen of African table tennis.[1][2] She also competed at the 1961 World Championships.[3]
Born in Accra, Ghana , she represented her father's birth country at the 1976 African Championships.[4]
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