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Victor Barna (born Gyozo Braun) was a Hungarian-born British table-tennis player. He was born in 1911 at Budapest and died in 1972. After leaving Hungary and emigrating to France he went to Britain where he adopted British nationality. He was captain of the England table tennis team and five times world men's singles champion, four times in succession, between 1930 and 1939. He was also eight times men's doubles champion with three different partners and twice mixed doubles champion.
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Fly Ball is a bat-and-ball game of the tennis type played with a shuttlecock. The racket is the shape of a table-tennis bat and has a net hitting surface. The shuttlecock is like that used in badminton.
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Table-Tennis (ping-pong) is an indoor game based upon lawn tennis, played by either two players (singles) or four players (doubles) facing each other and hitting a small light ball with a small paddle so that it passes over a low net stretched midway across the surface of a table, striking its surface at each end alternately. The game was very in vogue in England around 1900.
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