RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Ask a table tennis player to describe the most important part of the game and you usually get a single word answer: spin. After that it gets more complicated. There’s topspin.

Curve balls may help a pitcher strike out batters in baseball; and some nasty spin can make an opponent sweat to return a tennis serve. But more so than in any other ball game, in table tennis – where ...

Following three teenage American table-tennis players as they rigorously train and try to qualify for the 2012 Summer Olympic Games in London, the documentary “Top Spin” grips, exhilarates and breaks ...