They plan to share it with the family next door, which is buying a table-tennis table, and another neighbor, who's getting an air hockey table.
During my visit to London last year, David arranged for us to play some local students -- table tennis.
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He was famous during his playing days for epic battles with Swedish great Jan-Ove Waldner, the first table-tennis millionaire who at one point owned a chain of bars in China.
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Elsewhere on day 15 of the Games, China's world number one Zhang Yining won back-to-back table tennis golds, after defeating team-mate Wang Nan to hand the hosts a clean sweep of the medals in the women's singles.
In the U.S., Asian-Americans dominate ping pong, having comprised the entire U.S. Olympic table-tennis team in 2008, a feat they appear poised to repeat this year.
But in 1990, a year when the islands' unemployment rate hit a high of 20%, Antunes -- who has also represented his country at basketball and table tennis -- leapt at the chance to train as an air traffic controller.
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By all accounts, hardly anybody scored a single point, including several members of the Omaha-Metro Table Tennis Club.
Eckehard Weiss, who coached Tim Kretschmer at table-tennis, told the BBC that he had been a relatively normal boy.
Even Cai Zhenhua, a former table-tennis star who is now a deputy sport minister, implied Chinese athletes suffered discrimination.
"Tiger is one of the most competitive guys I've ever come across whether it's golf, chess or table-tennis, " added McIlroy.
Mr Weiss said he had wanted to be a professional table-tennis player and had even played a match last weekend.
Three of the camps I saw had outdoor soccer fields, and various camps also had foosball, table-tennis, and aerobic exercise equipment.
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He doesn't have any non-table tennis sponsorships and only has 1.3 million Weibo followers a number well outside the league of his superstar compatriots.
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Try as they may, the investigators may never know what happened to a talented table-tennis player who proudly held his trophies in school pictures.
But egalitarian did not mean equal: in mixed clubs, boys tended to charge about the place, keeping the girls out of the billiards room and hiding the table-tennis balls.
Forget the gentle-paced table tennis played out in a mate's garage or down the youth club, the first to 21 points quick to gloat about his or her superior talent.
It won every gold medal available in low-vote sports like table tennis and badminton but couldn't win a single "big state" sport.
Wang also won the women's singles title in Sydney, bringing her career tally to three Olympic gold and cementing her status as one of the best players in China's seemingly endless production-line of elite table tennis players.
As a sport that was originally played as an after dinner game on the dining tables of 19th-century English homes, table tennis seems to have come full circle as a social activity.
For just as that American table tennis player pointed out -- we share much in common as human beings, but our countries are different in certain ways.
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And table tennis runs in the family - Mr Buddell's 15-year-old son is showing promise and his partner Marketa is a former champion in the Czech Republic.
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Another gold medal was added Friday when Wang Nan and Zhang Yining converted the second of five match points to defeat the South Korean penhold pair Seok Eun-mi and Lee Eun-sil 11-9 11-7 11-6 11-6 in the women's table tennis doubles.
Footage of a toddler from Plymouth playing table tennis has proved to be a smash on video-sharing website YouTube.
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During practice Xu wore a big smile and a T-shirt emblazoned with the devastating slogan "The King of Table Tennis".
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Links of London's charm collection celebrates specific Olympic sports such as table tennis and badminton, so there is a ping-pong paddle and a shuttlecock, alongside hearts and clovers, symbolizing the themes of luck and love.
Top seeds Chen Qi and Ma Lin of China beat Ko Lai-chak and Li Ching of Hong Kong 11-6 11-9 7-11 11-8 8-11 11-5 to take the men's doubles gold in table tennis and keep China on track for another Olympic title sweep in Athens.
Few now challenge the validity Geng's transfer of loyalties, or that of another table tennis medal contender Johnny Huang, who made the same transcontinental cross-cultural upheaval.
Five athletes - all in summer sports - have competed in the Paralympics and Olympics - South African swimmer Natalie du Toit, American runner Marla Runyan, Polish table tennis player Natalia Partyka, Italian archer Paola Fantato and New Zealand archer Neroli Fairhall.
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