MUMBAI: Manav Thakkar, India's No.2 male paddler, noticed how the Lebrun brothers, the French siblings who have taken the table tennis world by storm, would "invent stuff" after training sessions even as the others would wind down. They'd play a quick game with two bounces on the table, or with just high balls, or simply stationed at the net.
"It would last only for 10-15 minutes, and there is no goal as such in what they do," Thakkar said. "But who knows, maybe once in 10 or 20 times, that would come in handy."
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