I will admit to having grown up with a table tennis table in the garage as as kid, I’ll even admit to propping up the one side and playing hours of one man T-tennis.

I feel the above has turned me into something of a return machine, although that chap in the red is in a league of his own. Xu Xin is his name, and his battle with Zhu Linfeng is proving popular around the world. Here’s Huffington Post lavishing praise on the two:

There was no “wearing” the other player down — just shots on shots on shots, each somehow returned with equal amounts of intensity and purpose. Xin and Linfeng combined for a 42-shot rally, which, as exasperating as it was to watch, was probably mind-crushing for the players themselves to endure. When you’re THAT deep in a rally, like hell are you going to be the one on the losing end of it.

Unfortunately there had to be a winner and a loser and Xu Xin emerged victorious.

And here people were labelling THIS the ‘point of the century’ just a few months back…

[source:huffingtonpost]