Why I . . . play table tennis

It was the long hot summer of 1976 when Bryan Rhodes’ friend asked him to practise table tennis at the renowned Hermits Table Tennis Club in Bradford. “Up until that time I’d only played it on the kitchen table at home—with books down the middle as a net—so it was quite an experience playing on a proper table, in a proper facility,” Rhodes recalls.That experience sparked a lifelong love of this relatively unsung sport. “Table tennis doesn’t get enough publicity—it’s not commercial like tennis, or as high profile. But for me, it’s more enjoyable to play,” says Rhodes, a consultant trauma and orthopaedic surgeon at the Royal Lancaster Infirmary.His passion for the sport continued through his medical school years at University College London, and as a surgical trainee in Liverpool. He moved to Lancaster as a consultant, and now plays for Burton-in-Kendal Table Tennis Club, which is based in his…
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