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Article: SPOTLIGHT TABLE TENNIS EVERY 4 YEARS, IT'S OUT OF THE BASEMENT AND INTO YOUR LIVING ROOMS.(SPORTS)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- July 25, 1996
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Byline: Tom Robinson
You have played Ping-Pong. I have played Ping-Pong. Amy Feng plays table tennis. And believe me, never the two shall meet.
At the Georgia World Congress Center on Wednesday, eight tables were going at once. It was tons of table tennis. Olympic-sized table tennis. Almost too much table tennis to behold.
It was the women's singles competition, and the ticks and tocks of our familiarity were buried by thwacks, squeals, service tosses as high as 10 feet and viciously spinning orange balls.
Feng, America's best women's player, did her part. She toasted her Slovakian foe in two sets in the big basement that is the underground World Congress ...