Chinese table tennis athlete Sun Yingsha (left) plays against a US athlete at a friendship match on Sunday in Las Vegas, Nevada to commemorate the 54th anniversary of "ping-pong diplomacy". LIA ZHU / ...
Former US national team members Connie Sweeris and her husband Dell Sweeris recall their experiences with ping-pong diplomacy at a forum marking the 54th anniversary of the exchange and the 46th ...
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TACOMA, Wash. — Students at Lincoln High School in Tacoma marked the 55th anniversary of “ping-pong diplomacy” on Tuesday, revisiting the 1971 table tennis exchange that helped open relations between ...
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Engineers developed a ping-pong-playing robot that quickly estimates the speed and trajectory of an incoming ball and precisely hits it to a desired location on the table. MIT engineers are getting in ...
Oakland A's catcher Jhonny Pereda is one of many pro athletes who plays ping-pong. Illustration: Dan Goldfarb / The Athletic; Justine Willard / Athletics / Getty Images This story is part of Peak, The ...
There’s a scene in the recent hit movie Marty Supreme in which Marty Mauser (Timothée Chalamet), an American table tennis champion and inveterate liar getting by on the skin of his teeth in post-WWII ...
When writer Lisa Lucas visited Phoenix, Arizona, she learned about the table tennis player Thelma Thall, who won two world championships in the 1950s. Thall competed in a male-dominated world shaped ...