London – Hit movie "Marty Supreme" put table tennis in the spotlight this year, and organizers of the World Team Championships that started in London this week will be hoping the sport's new audience can make it one of the best-supported editions ever.
One hundred years after the first Table Tennis World Championships were staged in London, the biggest names descend on the capital for an event that will culminate at Wembley Arena on May 10.
Actor Timothee Chalamet's chaotic portrayal of fictional ping-pong hustler Marty Mauser will be a world away from the high-class action that begins at London's Copper Box Arena on the Olympic Park in the early stages.