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Before the Senators renovated their weight room last summer, they had ping pong tables set up all the time, a tradition dating back to Daniel Alfredsson’s days as a player. One of the players sad to ...

Abstract: Sound can complement vision in ball sports by providing subtle cues about contact dynamics. In table tennis, the brief, high-frequency sounds produced during racket-ball impacts carry ...

Once dismissed as a basement game, table tennis is enjoying an unlikely US revival as the Oscar-tipped biopic Marty Supreme collides with a wave of new players For decades in the US, table tennis has ...

Roger Federer once dubbed the Australian Open the "happy Slam" of the tennis calendar. It takes place in the middle of January, in the warm, sunny climes of Melbourne Park, a world away from the cold ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. First clue that someone is serious about pingpong: They call it table tennis. Second clue: They bring their own ...

The director Josh Safdie had a personal connection to 1950s players, but he also enlisted professionals to choreograph the action and employed a visual trick. By Esther Zuckerman When Josh Safdie was ...

Safdie goes deep on his terror of table tennis matches and how he pulled them off through choreography, CGI, and Timothée Chalamet's training. “I had ADD, so I ...

In a conversation with The Hollywood Reporter, the film's ping-pong consultant, Diego Schaaf, says he hopes the actor's wild press run "gives the sport the breakthrough it’s deserved." By Lexi Carson ...

Marty Supreme is fictional, but Timothee Chalamet's character is loosely based on a real competitive table tennis player ...

Timothée Chalamet wouldn’t be everyone’s first thought when it comes to playing a character like Midnight Cowboy’s Ratso Rizzo (Dustin Hoffman), a fast-talking New York hustler always on the run from ...

EDGINGTON, Ill. (KWQC) - A collapsing table in Rockridge High School, sounded enough like gunshots to prompt a school lockdown Thursday. Deputies said a member of school staff had called 911 and ...