"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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