Estee Ackerman, who won the women’s division at the 2018 Table Tennis U.S. Open, has asked for a rescheduling of the matches.
Estee Ackerman, is among the top 30 young female players nationwide and says Jews should take pingpong seriously - not just as a Shabbat diversion.
An Orthodox Jewish teen from suburban New York City came up short in her bid to make the U.S. Olympics table tennis team and did not compete in the trials on Shabbat.
Ping pong prodigy Estee Ackerman, an 11-year-old from Long Island, was disqualified from her final event at the 2012 US National Table Tennis Championships in Las Vegas when her match fell on the Jewish holy day of rest and she chose not to play, the New York Post reported.