NPR is in Paris for the 2024 Summer Olympics. For more of our coverage from the Games head to our latest updates. PARIS — It was the kind of encounter that can only happen at the Olympics: An NBA star ...

Eleven additional teams per gender have secured their places at the ITTF World Table Tennis Championships Finals London 2026 through the November 2025 World Team Rankings, bringing the field closer to ...

India’s women’s table tennis team was eliminated by Singapore with a 3-2 loss at the ITTF-ATTU Asian Team Championships in Bhubaneshwar. Despite strong performances from Manika Batra and Yashaswini ...

Both champions now shift focus to the Islamic Solidarity Games in Saudi Arabia, starting November 7, with the team scheduled ...

The world’s best table tennis players will come to Las Vegas this month for the World Table Tennis United States Smash. Several former Olympians and current top-ranked players in WTT will face off for ...

The field, which started with more than 100 men and women table tennis players Friday morning, was reduced to approximately 48 players Friday night with the field expected to slim to 20 hopefuls in ...

Singles matches are best-of-seven games. Team matches consist of four singles matches and one doubles match, each played over the best-of-five games. Play is continuous throughout a match, except for ...

Iraqi table tennis player Nur al-Huda Sarmad adjusts her wheelchair before striking the ball into play, braving sweltering heat, social stigma and inadequate facilities as she dreams of taking her ...