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Article: Kings of spin Howard Jacobson on the thrill of table tennis
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- March 13, 2008
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Chess in Shorts
It's as subtle as it is sublime; as quick to learn as it is slow
to master. Next week, table tennis gets top billing in Britain for
the first time in a generation. Lifelong fan Howard Jacobson
explains what makes it the king of sports
It's more than 30 years since table tennis was last played at the
Royal Albert Hall - a statistic which is unlikely to move to tears a
nation grown indifferent to this most deft of sports. But when it
does return to Kensington next Monday for the Dunlop Masters 2008,
the occasion will be charged with sentiment for the thousands who
have kept the faith, converging from all ping-pong-playing corners
of the country. Not simply because of the ...