Simon Gerada was born and brought up in Melbourne, Australia and began playing at the age of 9 after he witnessed his father win a shopping centre tournament.

The Australian Team was training for the World Championships and it was in Gerada's Table Tennis Australia contract that he must attend this session.

This compromised his Commonwealth Games position and despite calls from the Victorian Institute of Sport that he should be allowed to represent Australia, the authorities did not back down.

In Melbourne in 2006, he teamed up with his elder brother Wayne [1] representing Malta in the Table tennis doubles.

In 2010, he returned to representing Australia in New Delhi, where, among the four categories he enlisted in, he teamed up with Justin Han in the men's doubles and pushed Sharath Kamal and Subhajit Saha of India before losing in full five games at the round of 16.