table tennis
noun
: a game resembling tennis that is played on a tabletop with wooden paddles and a small hollow plastic ball
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Marty Supreme — about an American table tennis star’s rise through the international circuit — also stars Odessa A'zion, Gwyneth Paltrow and Fran Drescher.
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Clare Fisher, PEOPLE, 15 Jan. 2026
Her dad was a math professor at Stanford in California and there was a table tennis table in the launderette; that’s where her remarkable journey began.
—Don Riddell, CNN Money, 14 Jan. 2026
During a conversation at the BFI Southbank in London on Tuesday, director Josh Safdie revealed Robert Pattinson has a secret cameo in the Timothée Chalamet table tennis movie.
—Brendan Morrow, USA Today, 14 Jan. 2026
The SaaS business will continue developing squash infrastructure ahead of the sport’s Olympics debut in 2028, while also building out features for other racquet sports such as table tennis and, yes, pickleball.
—Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 12 Jan. 2026
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Clare Fisher, PEOPLE, 15 Jan. 2026
Her dad was a math professor at Stanford in California and there was a table tennis table in the launderette; that’s where her remarkable journey began.
—Don Riddell, CNN Money, 14 Jan. 2026
During a conversation at the BFI Southbank in London on Tuesday, director Josh Safdie revealed Robert Pattinson has a secret cameo in the Timothée Chalamet table tennis movie.
—Brendan Morrow, USA Today, 14 Jan. 2026
The SaaS business will continue developing squash infrastructure ahead of the sport’s Olympics debut in 2028, while also building out features for other racquet sports such as table tennis and, yes, pickleball.
—Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 12 Jan. 2026
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“Table tennis.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/table%20tennis. Accessed 22 Jan. 2026.
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