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Why ITTF boss Srling wants all communities to participate in table tennis

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ITTF President Petra Sorling during World Tennis Day celebration at Charter Hall, Nairobi, on April 23, 2025. [Jonah Onyango, Standard]

International Table Tennis Foundation (ITTF) president Petra Sorling has called for integration of all communities in the world to participate in the game.

Sorling was speaking at Charter Hall, Nairobi during the World Table Tennis Day celebration which is marked every year in April to honour Ivor Montagu, organiser of the first World Table Tennis Championship in 1926 and the founder and first president of ITTF.

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