Consider the difference between holding a knife (shakehand) and a pencil (penhold): Knife: Your palm is wrapped around the base and the object is aligned between your thumb and index finger. Your ...

While the European-style shakehand grip is now in the ascendancy, Wong decided on the penhold style to emulate China's Wang Hao, who won three consecutive individual Olympic silver medals in Athens, ...

Following three teenage American table-tennis players as they rigorously train and try to qualify for the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London, the documentary “Top Spin” grips, exhilarates and breaks ...

China’s men’s table tennis team ensured that the nation’s mixed doubles silver was the only upset in an otherwise characteristically dominant display with the paddle. The top seeds dismissed the ...

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