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Year 10 Perth Modern student Chelsea Wu is training for the Olympic Games in table tennis. Homepage image.

This WA student’s Olympic dreams lie in the ‘fastest sport in the world’

This sport has been part of the Olympics since the 1980s, but still sits at the fringes of the games. Here is one WA teenager with a dream to represent her country and change that perception.

  • Holly Thompson

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Lina Lei and Qian Yang were all smiles following their victory in Paris.

Move over, China. Australia is home to the newest table tennis gold medallists

Lina Lei and Qian Yang are superstars of their sport, with 17 Paralympic table tennis medals between them. Once again, they were too good in Paris.

  • Tom Decent
Jessy Chen competes in the mixed doubles at the Paris Paralympics.

After surviving a racially motivated machete attack, this Paralympian fell in love with table tennis

Jessy Chen was almost murdered in 2006 and subsequently forced to spend the rest of his life in a wheelchair. Keep an eye out for him next week playing table tennis in Paris.

  • Tom Decent
Melissa Tapper competing during the Women’s Team Round of 16 on day 11 of the Olympic Games.

Olympics or Paralympics? Rather than choose, this star does both

As the Games wrapped up in Paris, Australian table tennis star Melissa Tapper, fresh from her Olympic stint, was already looking ahead to the Paralympics.

  • Hannah Hammoud
Australian table tennis players Nick Lum and Min Hyung Jee play in Paris, ahead of their team competitions.

The Olympic sport everyone reckons they can play, especially after a few beers

Table tennis players are constantly challenged to matches by backyard warriors. Here are the reasons you’ll never beat them – starting with a $1000 racquet.

  • Jordan Baker
Yangzi Liu competes for Australia at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, where she won two bronze medals.

See you in court: Australian Olympic medal hopeful banned for seven years

Table tennis star Yangzi Liu is unable to represent Australia at the Olympics until 2032 because of the game’s protectionist policy on players switching allegiances.

  • Chris Barrett
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World No.1 Fan Zhendong of China takes on Taiwan’s Lin Yun-Ju in the semi-finals of the World Table Tennis Champions event in Macao last weekend.

Ping pong diplomacy: Game hopes to get Australia, China back to the table

A group of Singapore-based Australians have relaunched the professional game in COVID-zero China and want to tap into its legacy for forging links with Beijing.

  • Chris Barrett
The Chinese table tennis team inspect the Sydney Opera House on July 25, 1972.

From the Archives, 1972: Behind the ping-pong ball

Things had gotten off to a shaky start, but ping-pong and diplomacy were forgotten when the Herald spent the day sightseeing with the Chinese table tennis team.

  • Staff reporter and Rod Humphries
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The athletes to watch at the Commonwealth Games

Australia is sending its largest overseas Commonwealth team ever to Birmingham, with more than 400 athletes set to compete across 20 sports. 

  • Tom Decent
Lina Lei and Qian Yang won gold for table tennis at the Paralympics.

After a 37-year drought, Australia win two table tennis gold medals in an hour

Qian Yang and Lina Lei claimed individual table tennis medals in their categories for Australia on Monday after switching allegiances from China following the Rio Games.

  • Tom Decent

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