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Young lad serves during a table tennis tournament in Myatts Fields in south London Stock Photo - Alamy
MINT State - On this day in 1901 at the London Royal Aquarium, the first table tennis tournament was held. Table tennis became a medal sport at the 1988 Summer Olympics in
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