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Singapore's table tennis team for the SEA Games feature a mix of youth and experience, with an average age of 20 for women and 22 for men. The women's team aim to end their gold medal drought, boosted ...

Major League Table Tennis is launching an owned and operated streaming service called “Table Tennis TV” ahead of the start of its third season of play. The service, priced at $9.99 per month or $99.99 ...

Abstract: Achieving human-level performance on real world tasks is a north star for the robotics community. We present the first learned robot agent that reaches amateur humanlevel performance in ...

Timothee Chalamet is trading his guitar and harmonica for a paddle. Fresh off an Oscar-nominated performance as Bob Dylan in "A Complete Unknown," Chalamet is stepping into the shoes of a different ...

German table tennis star Timo Boll has ended his illustrious career with a defeat. His club, Borussia Dusseldorf, lost the table tennis Bundesliga play-off final 3-2 to TTF Liebherr Ochsenhausen on ...

A wealthy Qatari businessman’s campaign to lead the sport’s global body is being investigated. One of his critics was detained and interrogated in Doha. By Hannah Beech In a near-empty venue in a near ...

"Human Table" is a food documentary with two men who are passionate about barbecue. "Documentaries look at things slowly, and seriously, and reveal the long-term. It's that kind of genre. Through ...

The Oak Ridge Senior Center hosted two table tennis tournaments in February. The center is planning an advanced tournament March 22. On Feb. 15, 10 players competed in a round-robin singles tournament ...

Australia-based POPP is widely recognized for its design-driven outdoor tennis tables (TT table) installed in over 3,000 public places, including the headquarters of Dropbox, Waymo, and Hewlett ...