[1] Rowe, and her twin sister Diane, were selected to play table tennis for England at age sixteen and toured Czechoslovakia.
[2] From 1951 to 1955 she won 14 medals in single, double, and team events in the World Table Tennis Championships,[3] many of them together with her twin sister[4] The pair were coached by Victor Barna.
[7][8] Rowe was born in Queen Charlotte’s Hospital, Hammersmith, London on 14 April 1933, the older twin sisters by 10 minutes.
Her father, Ronald George Rowe was an account clerk and her mother was Edith, née Delany.
Both she and her sister worked as secretarial administrators professionally, using their free time for table tennis, writing and public appearances.