Some Olympic aspirants in table tennis start playing at age 6, according to Teodore Gheorghe, chief operating officer of USA Table Tennis.
There are a wide variety of shots used in table tennis.
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Top seeds Chen Qi and Ma Lin of China beat Ko Lai-chak and Li Ching of Hong Kong 11-6 11-9 7-11 11-8 8-11 11-5 to take the men's doubles gold in table tennis and keep China on track for another Olympic title sweep in Athens.
In wheelchair table tennis, Britain suffered defeats in their opening men's team matches.
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The victory means China has won gold in every table tennis event played at the London Games and in Beijing in 2008, according to the official Games website.
Hannah has previously taken part in the games several times in events including table tennis, long jump and the 50m sprint.
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Funding is in place, and the British Table Tennis Federation (BTTF) is currently in the process of choosing a location.
And the 13 channels in Asia show sports like table tennis and men's field hockey.
In "Beijing 2008--The Official Mobile Phone Game of the Olympic Games, " players compete as Olympic athletes in the hammer throw, table tennis and swimming.
The Duke and Duchess ended their public engagements at the Donald Dewar leisure centre, where they played each other in a short game of table tennis.
And table tennis runs in the family - Mr Buddell's 15-year-old son is showing promise and his partner Marketa is a former champion in the Czech Republic.
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Meanwhile, Terry McLernon, who runs a successful table tennis club in Glasgow's Drumchapel housing scheme, has also been appointed MBE in the Queen's New Year Honours list.
Another gold medal was added Friday when Wang Nan and Zhang Yining converted the second of five match points to defeat the South Korean penhold pair Seok Eun-mi and Lee Eun-sil 11-9 11-7 11-6 11-6 in the women's table tennis doubles.
But he seems to have found his true niche in, of all things, table tennis.
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China beat South Korea to take the gold medal in the men's team table tennis final, and the bronze went to Germany.
Table tennis was an obvious sport to start with, because it is forty years after an American table tennis team competed in China.
If you asked Americans to rank the most important sports to them, table tennis might come in somewhere a little above foosball or bumper pool.
In the U.S., Asian-Americans dominate ping pong, having comprised the entire U.S. Olympic table-tennis team in 2008, a feat they appear poised to repeat this year.
The South Asian nation of 1.2 billion is fielding 84 athletes in 13 sports including hockey, table tennis, weightlifting, wrestling, shooting and badminton, as well as 58 officials.
Forget the gentle-paced table tennis played out in a mate's garage or down the youth club, the first to 21 points quick to gloat about his or her superior talent.
Teams from Bath and Bethlehem will play football, netball, basketball and table tennis and also take part in a swimming gala.
I'm standing out in front of the Rising Dragon's Table Tennis Club.
Other pieces include one put together by inmates at Lowdham Grange prison in Nottinghamsire and another exploring the sounds and rhythms of table tennis.
North Korea will face South Korea in the first round of the men's Olympic table tennis team event after the pair were drawn against each other on Wednesday.
You can watch music videos on a 50-inch plasma TV in the MTV Booth, or go gaming at the XBOX Kinect Room, a new sports experience that uses your voice and facial expressions to play table tennis, beach volley and even participate in track and field events.
Not long ago table tennis was a game played by geeky kids in youth clubs.
Try as they may, the investigators may never know what happened to a talented table-tennis player who proudly held his trophies in school pictures.
Wang also won the women's singles title in Sydney, bringing her career tally to three Olympic gold and cementing her status as one of the best players in China's seemingly endless production-line of elite table tennis players.
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