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The first-person story of how ping pong saved the life of a New York City kid and took him all the way to North Korea New York Daily News, 2018, by Wally Green; Taking ping pong from losing, to winning, to diplomacy in North Korea - Wally Green, 2022 TEDx video; Playing Ping-pong With Wally Green, A Professional Table Tennis Player, 2023 video
This list of table tennis players is alphabetically ordered by surname. The main source of the information included in this page is the official International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) database. More detailed information about their careers is available in the individual players' articles, and in the ITTF database.
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He was also the first of only six male players in the history of table tennis to achieve a career grand slam (World Champion, World Cup and Olympic gold medal winner in singles) (in 1992). The others are: Liu Guoliang , China (in 1999), Kong Linghui , China (in 2000), Zhang Jike , China (in 2012), Ma Long , China (in 2016), and Fan Zhendong ...
An aggressive player, he is known for his converse unpredictable serves, heavy short push receives, fast footwork, and powerful third ball attacks. In addition to possessing a solid backhand block, Ma also uses the reverse penhold backhand (RPB), an innovative stroke utilizing the underside of the blade which allows a penholder to produce ...
Derek being a junior ping pong player represented Ghana at the Africa Junior Championship in Alexandria, Egypt and the All African Games in Algiers, Algeria in 2007. Abrefa is a two-time bronze medallist at the All Africa Games and Commonwealth and currently ranked number 1 in Ghana by the Ghana Table Tennis Federation. [4]
Outside Southeast Asia, Gonzales has represented the Philippines at the 2014 World Championship of Ping Pong winning bronze after bowing out to Maxim Shmyrev in the semifinal. [ 2 ] [ 7 ] Gonzales along with Ian Lariba were the Philippines' representatives at the 2014 World Team Table Tennis Championships .
The debut event was a promotional showcase featuring 16 of the world's best male and 16 of the world's best female players. The event implemented a brand new format with innovative scoring methods. It also featured a prize purse of US$800,000 with players paid a minimum of US$15,000, and earning more prize money per match they win. [14] [15]