Footage of a toddler from Plymouth playing table tennis has proved to be a smash on video-sharing website YouTube.

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Some Olympic aspirants in table tennis start playing at age 6, according to Teodore Gheorghe, chief operating officer of USA Table Tennis.

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His pleasures were playing the piano and table tennis.

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He was famous during his playing days for epic battles with Swedish great Jan-Ove Waldner, the first table-tennis millionaire who at one point owned a chain of bars in China.

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