This May Be the Greatest Ping Pong Backhand You’ll Ever See

Once in a lifetime behind the back ping pong shot.

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Ping pong isn't a sport that's typically in our wheelhouse because, well, it's ping pong. We'll readily admit that it takes a lot of skill and coordination to hit a tiny white ball back and forth over and over and over again. But it's not something that we spend our weekends watching.

Even with that in mind, though, it's impossible to ignore the greatness of the shot in the video above. We had absolutely no idea that a behind-the-back shot was even a thing in ping pong. But during a matchup between two NexyUSA.com team members on Saturday, one player pulled it off. And his opponent was not happy about it:

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Salty? Yes. But even he was eventually impressed by what happened here. It was kind of hard not to be.

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