Engineers developed a ping-pong-playing robot that quickly estimates the speed and trajectory of an incoming ball and precisely hits it to a desired location on the table. MIT engineers are getting in ...

Timothée Chalamet stars in Marty Supreme—a sports drama set in 1950s New York City that follows Marty Mauser, a pompous hustler on a mission to pursue his ping-pong dreams by any means necessary. The ...

Safdie goes deep on his terror of table tennis matches and how he pulled them off through choreography, CGI, and Timothée Chalamet's training. “I had ADD, so I ...

In a conversation with The Hollywood Reporter, the film's ping-pong consultant, Diego Schaaf, says he hopes the actor's wild press run "gives the sport the breakthrough it’s deserved." By Lexi Carson ...

In the 1940s and '50s, New York City table tennis was a gritty subculture full of misfits, gamblers, doctors, actors, students and more. They competed, bet on the game or both at all-night spots like ...

Timothée Chalamet wouldn’t be everyone’s first thought when it comes to playing a character like Midnight Cowboy’s Ratso Rizzo (Dustin Hoffman), a fast-talking New York hustler always on the run from ...

Volleying questions with the table tennis champ Marty Reisman, an inspiration for Timothée Chalamet’s new film, showed that he was a character in his own right. Marty Reisman won 22 major table tennis ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sweaty and self-confident, Timothée Chalamet swings a table tennis paddle like a madman in “Marty Supreme,” an unconventionally ...

Timothée Chalamet's new movie "Marty Supreme" arrives in theaters nationwide on Christmas Day. Director Josh Safdie's genre-busting sports drama is rated R. The young actor deserved an Oscar for ...

One day, Marty Supreme star Timothée Chalamet can be found in São Paulo, breaking out in full dance to Soulja Boy’s “Crank Dat (Soulja Boy).” Another day, he’s visiting current WWE Champion Cody ...

Cal graduate Lily Zhang gained fame in the table tennis world last month when she became the first woman to claim the No. 1 spot in the Major League Table Tennis official power rankings. But she ...

Marty Reisman was a rather notorious figure from the late 1940s in New York City’s underground table tennis (aka ping pong) world as a twentysomething shark who lured in unsuspecting amateur players ...