Table tennis soared in popularity during lockdown with Liberty Games reporting a 250 per cent year on year increase in table sales in 2020. Canadian pop star Justin Bieber, meanwhile, reportedly stipulates that a table tennis table be present when he performs in concerts. In 2013, Pippa Middleton, the Princess of Wales’ sister and a former competitor in national table tennis championships, challenged Boris Johnson – also a player – to a duel (“I’m game if she is,” he responded). Barack Obama and David Cameron played doubles against a pair of teenagers at a London school in 2011 – the following year the Camerons gave the Obamas a customised Dunlop table. She is not the only celebrity fan of a game now mostly played in China, but developed in Victorian England. It is one of the few sports that you can play until you die.” “You don’t get hurt it is not expensive it is really good for your mind. “ Ping pong cuts across all body types and gender – everything, really – because little girls can beat big muscley guys,” she said. Having played since I was a child, I bought an outdoor table during lockdown and know of few other sports with as many benefits for body and brain.Ĭardio might give me an endorphin buzz and weights boost my strength, but knocking that 2g ball from one side of a table to the other clears my mind quicker than you can ask “is the world’s fastest table tennis shot really 72mph?” (Yes).Īctress Susan Sarandon, the unlikely unofficial Hollywood representative of the sport, who part owns SPiN, a chain of table tennis bars in America and Canada, is similarly convinced.
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