The players were not particularly well known outside the walls of a Markham warehouse. Some were among the best athletes in the sport, sages in their world of whacking a white ball just 40 millimetres ...

People might not think of ping pong, or table tennis, as an injury-inducing sport, but what might be a pastime to some can be an intense match for others. A Baylor College of Medicine orthopedic ...

What if 45 square feet of fiberboard contained the key to a better life? For centuries, humans have sought ways to optimize their minds, enhance their physical well-being and prolong their lives. It ...

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 ...

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 ...

There were no idle hands at Sharpa's CES booth. The company's humanoid may have been the busiest bot at show, autonomously playing ping-pong, dealing blackjack games and taking selfies with passersby.

Safdie goes deep on his terror of table tennis matches and how he pulled them off through choreography, CGI, and Timothée Chalamet's training. “I had ADD, so I ...

BOTTOM LINE Chalamet leaves it all on the table in this high-stakes drama about a small-scale sport. Marty Mauser looks like a harmless sort with his skinny arms, wire-rimmed glasses and peach-fuzz ...

In the 1940s and '50s, New York City table tennis was a gritty subculture full of misfits, gamblers, doctors, actors, students and more. They competed, bet on the game or both at all-night spots like ...

Carolina Pong founder Tripp Roche, middle, watches as table tennis players play at St. Andrews Park gym in Columbia, S.C. on Dec. 1, 2025. The game of table tennis, also known as ping pong, is taking ...

Timothée Chalamet's new movie "Marty Supreme" arrives in theaters nationwide on Christmas Day. Director Josh Safdie's genre-busting sports drama is rated R. The young actor deserved an Oscar for ...