EVERETT — What is the difference between table tennis and ping pong? Technically, they’re the same game: played on a 9×5-foot wooden table with a 6-inch net spanning the middle; players using ...

In their second event of the season, the Portland Paddlers are facing off at home against three teams in the country’s first professional table tennis league. Portland Paddlers team member, Hampus ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A Major League Table Tennis competition will be making a stop in Portland at the Oregon Convention Center from October 3-5. This competition will give fans a first look at the ...

“It’s got all the excitement of any sport,” he said. “It’s fast. There’s athleticism. There’s excitement. People love watching it.” Choi is an avid ping-pong player. He hopes having a major league ...

One day last year, Adebowale Akinyemi Wilson lost an opening round match at the World Table Tennis Contender tournament in Lagos, Nigeria. It was an obscure contest on the far-flung outskirts of ...

NPR is in Paris for the 2024 Summer Olympics. For more of our coverage from the Games head to our latest updates. PARIS — It was the kind of encounter that can only happen at the Olympics: An NBA star ...

Major League Table Tennis is going primetime. The pro table tennis league that got its start in 2023 by software entrepreneur Flint Lane has signed its first-ever national television deal with CBS ...

Lots of people have a ping pong table down in the basement and they may even think they're pretty good at it. But on Sunday in Pleasanton, fans of the game got a chance to see how the professionals do ...