Super Steve Earle
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Anyone else watching? Semi finals just starting on Sky Sports 5. Been watching for 3 hours now and it's great entertainment. 2 English, 1 Russian and a German. Enjoy 
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World Championship of Ping Pong
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Super Steve Earle
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Just watched a cracking semi. We have an English finalist!
seagull_in_malaysia
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Every time I watch table tennis it's generally really good entertainment.
Where's this guy though?
Where's this guy though?
mune ni kamome
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Wonder what you are watching. The official world table tennis championship starts in February
Super Steve Earle
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I told you, it's Ping Pong. Bats with sandpaper instead of rubber. Only 2% of the spin compared to TT. Best of 3 or 5 sets up to 15. Sudden death at 14-14. One double point ball each per match in best of 3 or two in best of 5.
sllugaes
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Absolutely brilliant - such an underated sport. Great live too.
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10 minutes till the final. This is real sport.
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Well I'm awake for the new day having watched with Mrs Earle, 6 hours of toe to toe Ping Pong last night. Usually hi-tec table tennis players being forced to play a lo-tec version of the game. They don't even use their own bats. Like a dual, they are offered 4 identical bats and just choose one, then swap bats after each set. This is the first new sport I've watched in years and it's a bit gladitorial. No wonder Barry Hearne is involved and sees growth potential like darts. Excuse my enthusiasm, but Mrs E watched the whole 6 hours with me, and apart from the a#%e of a Scot, who came on in a kilt and did the whole shebang of time wasting gamesmanship, gestures and expressions, lack of sportsmanship etc., it was played in a good spirit. Can't wait to see it again. Oh, and the World Champion is Englishman, Andrew Baggeley, who won just $20,000.