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Article: Table tennis is net gain for BBC
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- May 18, 2002
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THE BBC may have lost Match of the Day, Six Nations rugby and Test
cricket, but sports fans can relax; table tennis is bouncing back on
Grandstand today.
The sport is returning two decades after Desmond Douglas was the
pride of English ping-pong and the international game was dominated
by the Chinese.
It has been revived in a competition created specially for the BBC
with the aim of stimulating interest ahead of this year's
Commonwealth Games in Manchester.
They might not be household names, but the PPP Healthcare
Commonwealth Masters brought together six top players, including
British number one Matthew Syed and his old adversary Chetan Baboor,
for a knockout contest at the Wembley ...