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Teqball ready for take-off in Singapore
Football may be Singapore's No. 1 sport but there are other sporting love affairs around the island. In this fortnightly series, The Straits Times seeks out less popular games and discovers that a country's passion for sport, even in this time of Covid-19, burns brightly.
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Professional football players, or even some weekend warriors, would have no problems juggling a regular ball with their feet.
But landing it on a 3m by 1.7m table, curved downwards on each end, presents a tougher proposition, and this is the unique challenge that attracted Khairul Fahmi to teqball.
