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Article: IN MEDFORD, PLENTY OF LOOPS, CHOPS, DROPS, AND SPIN NOVICE, PRO ALIKE AT TABLE TENNIS SITE
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- August 3, 2006
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MEDFORD -The ball hung ever so slightly over the edge of the
table, spinning fiercely at eye level before darting down into the
last bit of white paint below.
Alex Landsman didn't even try to swing. Like a batter frozen by a
perfect curveball, he had no chance of making contact with the
"loop."
Landsman played plenty of table tennis growing up, but this was a
whole new game. Joining the club team at the University of New
Hampshire back in the early 1980s, the Londonderry, N.H., resident
quickly discovered there was more to this sport than just the ping
and the pong.
"People moving up to the next level really have to hit with an
experienced player because most of them have these very ...