A look at the popularity of table tennis

Amy Wang will represent Team USA at the Olympics and takes some time out from her training to teach Lara Spencer and James Longman a thing or two about the sport.

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[haihe]

For those who don't know, I am the guy who is playing with Amy at the 0:59-1:00 mark. Amy is an incredible player. I played her once in the tournament long time ago and I barely beat her 3-2 in the match and 11-9 in the last game and she was 6 years old back then.

[Chapa-pa-pa]

People always forget about Forest Gump. We already medal'ed once folks.

[whatevereyewant]

Team USA will be lucky to take a match in the top 32 or 16. We still heavily train outside of the country to get better results.

[pongbotsports]

Best of luck, Amy! Your talent and hard work will shine on the Olympic stage. Team USA is behind you all the way! 💪🏓

[boowiissi]

as a kid I would just watch the "big events" basketball, soccer, swimming, gymnastics, few others I'm forgetting. now I wanna watch table tennis, badminton, archery, fencing lol

[keymot]

A med student Olympian? If my mom saw her I’m dead

[Starrynova]

Sorry but there's no hope against the Chinese in TT. The Chinese NT trains 10 hours a day everyday in a bootcamp since they were born. All their coaches are past World and Olympic champions. It's simply impossible to compete when you have to juggle school and college with the sport.

The closest the US have gotten was when Ariel Hsing took 2 games off Li Xiaoxia (the eventual Olympic champion) in London 2012.

[Whoiamiagain]

USA winning a medal is impossible, because of the world’s biggest powerhouses like China, Germany, France, etc will be playing and they all have multiple generations of top players and coaches who won titles. Meanwhile USA is still like a newbie to the sport compared to everyone else. Like tell me the last title the USA won in table tennis.

[Mary-shbp]

When I was a kid, my parents would enroll my siblings and I in all sort of extracurricular classes such as piano, voice, chess, French, Spanish, and other classes. When tables tennis was getting really popular here in the US, our dad enrolled us in a summer ping pong class. I can serve and rally, but nowhere near good enough for tournaments 😅. Anyways, our teacher taught us how to serve and the best way he described it was to think of your arm like a T-Rex’s arm when serving. You need to sort of retract and make it look shorter, keeping it close to your body. So, we call it a T-Rex serve. 😂

[banibee]

I am a tennis fan.I just started watching ping pong this Olympics. I must say it's really good tv. Involvement of coaches, not much difference in the level of men-women-old-young-different body types is really interesting to watch. Once a player has the technique and skill body types, age groups is not a barrier. Love rooting for older, players with a body type of not a typical athlete. 🏓 Is definitely good tv

[hana_moon]

her parents are so proud, and other Asian parents will tell their kids, "why cant you be like Amy?!"

[etfubdx]

Who here after seeing Steph alley oop to ANT

[amirhooshang]

My dear Laura and James I thank you for this lovely video, you have no idea how much I love Ping pong, any place with any one we could challenge doubles.

[gpain]

I wanna see Anthony edwards against them for fun

[YCHTT]

As long as she doesn't meet the Chinese teams, she may has a chance. She is cute though.

[Tetawnga]

Love from Northeast India, Aizawl city, she is gorgeous😍✨

[DaylenAmell]

The woman asked Amy if the serve she did had a special name. Amy was about to answer the question at 4:27 (and I think she meant to say that it was the "pendulum serve"), but they cut her off before she even finished saying the word "pendulum". I find this quite rude.

[dbuc]

2:37 "I've never seen anything like that"
thats EXACTLY what I thought when I was watching the olympic TT matches, it's such a strange looking action! i dont even know, like, they put the ball in their palm and bring it up really close to their face, then they, like, stomp their feet, and jerk the hand holding the ball, downwards to release the ball, or something lmao. its really weird

[ardtob]

Good luck amy. Hope you get to spend delightful time with Ant too 😎

[chairminh]

This isn't a look at the popularity of the sport. Title is misleading