Sunday, March 13, 2011

Ping-Pong as Mind Game (Although a Good Topspin Helps): New York Times 2008

"I DUCKED into the New York International Table Tennis Center in Flushing, Queens, puzzling over the peculiar sound echoing in my ears. With preposterously high odds against me, I was going to play a challenge game of what is commonly known as Ping-Pong. But the echoing I heard did not match that supposedly onomatopoeic name. Instead, it sounded more like a dozen clocks synchronized to the staccato beat of tock-tock-tock-tock..."

The rest of this article from the NY Times from 2008
can be found here.

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