A thousand crazy table tennis facts

This book answers all possible and impossible questions about the green plate: Where does the name 'Ping-Pong' come from? Which German table tennis queen was called 'mosquito' all her life, and why did high-heeled pumps almost become her undoing? How long did the longest flawless rally in table tennis history last? Does Tom Hanks really play as spectacularly well as Forrest Gump? And who invented - by an incredible coincidence - the pimpled rubber on the bats? This book collects a thousand strange ping-pong facts in a loose sequence - right up to the ex-communard Fritz Teufel, who fought against his Parkinson's disease at a ping-pong table in the city park.