The English Open – often referred to as the "Wimbledon" of table tennis - featured more than 300 competitors from 50 nations across the globe with a prize money pot of over $175,000 (£106,000) up for ...
Marty Reisman achieved 22 major table tennis titles from 1946 to 2002 - Neville Elder/Corbis via Getty Images Nicknamed “the Needle” owing to his spindly physique, table tennis prodigy Marty Reisman ...
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 ...