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Sporting Life: A stranger serves up a lesson in passion

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Sport doesn't require grand reasons; it is played for simple pleasures every day, says the writer.

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At 10.58am on a sunny Monday morning my lesson in love for a game commences.
My teacher is a man whom I haven't really met. He lives across the street and I don't even know his name, or what he does, or where he learnt table tennis, except that he is a shirtless artist.
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