Watch these thrilling, brutal, nail-biting moments from the year in, um, table tennis

Below is nine and a half minutes of table tennis madness from 2024.

If ping pong isn't your racket, you may be surprised to know that it started in the 1880s as a genteel parlor game for Victorian aristocrats. Inspired by traditional lawn tennis, the earliest indoor versions used champagne corks as balls, books for nets, and cigar box lids for paddles. What a ball!

Previously:
• Insane ping pong ball trick shots
• How ping pong balls are made
• Vintage ping pong snapshots
• Watch this athletic cat hit every ping pong ball that flies over the net