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World of Sport

24th Feb 2015

Video: Not even Forrest Gump could return this behind-the-back table tennis wonder shot

Ridiculous

Ben Kiely

When your opponent threatens to throw their shoe at you, you know you’ve just pulled off something extraordinary

The measure of how ridiculously impressive a table tennis winner is how much laughter it receives from spectators. You can tell from the intense cackling from the onlookers of this rally, that the shot was spectacular.

The player in the blue produced an outrageous behind-the-back winner that left his opponent befuddled and frustrated, probably because of how casually he executed it.

While his downtrodden opponent was hanging his head in bafflement, he had the temerity to suggest that he should be rewarded with “two points and a pizza” for pulling off the ridiculous shot. He probably deserved both, in fairness.

Hat-tip to Reddit

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Table tennis