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We are pleased to announce that Ryan Hoarfrost is the new owner of Paddle Palace Table Tennis as of August 22nd, 2025. He now...

This past weekend, family and friends gathered at Steve Berliner’s Pickleball Pad to celebrate the 70th birthday of an American table tennis icon—Judy Bochenski...

Ping-Pong Diplomacy is alive and well in Portland! Paddle Palace Club had the honor of hosting a distinguished delegation from the Chinese Consulate in...

The story of "ping pong diplomacy," and the people-to-people links which grew from it. In 1971 a small group of U.S. table tennis players...

Courtesy of Oregon Public Broadcasting

https://youtu.be/BQO8nFL5O_k Judy Hoarfrost, youngest member of the 1971 U.S. Table Tennis team, reflected on the historic trip to China which became known as “Ping...

Exactly 50 years after the original Ping Pong Diplomacy event, Ping Pong Diplomacy has continued gathering more momentum as a program led by the...

Hosting the Winter Olympics amid a pandemic is challenging, but "we need to have that human connection and have athleticism”, says Judy Hoarfrost, a...

By May Zhou (China Daily Global) Three Americans involved in "Ping-Pong Diplomacy'' 50 years ago discussed the significance of the matches then and now...