N.Z. MUST ADOPT NEW TABLE TENNIS STYLE
(P.A.) Napier, June 24 After seven months’ absence from the Dominion, during which he represented New Zealand at the world championships in England Russell Algie, top-ranking table tennis player in this country, ret a; ..ed by the Waipawa today. If New Zealand wished to take part in international competition, said Algie, its players would have to change radically their style of play. The Americans had taken to England a new style of short, crisp strokes, in which the forearm and wrist only are used, in place of the long driving action which is used in New Zealand. ‘This is the coming style of play and from what I’ve seen the new style will wipe long defence off the • able,' said Algie.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 29 June 1948, Page 6
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