Ethan Poh scratched his head and smiled sheepishly when asked to recall the last local-born male Singaporean table tennis player he watched on television as a child.
But the national paddler cannot be faulted for a lapse in memory. After all, the 20-year-old was not born the last time an all-Singaporean born men's team competed at the SEA Games in 1997.
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