Consider the difference between holding a knife (shakehand) and a pencil (penhold): Knife: Your palm is wrapped around the base and the object is aligned between your thumb and index finger. Your ...

While the European-style shakehand grip is now in the ascendancy, Wong decided on the penhold style to emulate China's Wang Hao, who won three consecutive individual Olympic silver medals in Athens, ...

China’s men’s table tennis team ensured that the nation’s mixed doubles silver was the only upset in an otherwise characteristically dominant display with the paddle. The top seeds dismissed the ...

(Reuters) - Hong Kong's Wong Chun Ting is part of a dying breed in table tennis thanks to his penhold grip on the bat but the world number eight hopes to revive the style by winning a medal at the Rio ...