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Unlikely duo of table tennis players, Derek Nie and Klaus Wood, train together

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Unlikely duo of table tennis players, Derek Nie and Klaus Wood, train together

The Baltimore Sun features Derek Nie and Klaus Wood at Maryland Table Tennis Center in Gaithersburg, MD. 

“Derek Nie and Klaus Wood might not become two of the best table tennis players in the world, but Jan-Ove Waldner and Jorgen Persson did, and they trained together, too, so in the back office of the Maryland Table Tennis Center, Larry Hodges’ discourse on late-20th-century Sweden doesn’t actually sound all that out of place. Read the full article at BaltimoreSun.com.

 

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