Table of Glory

Table of Glory (乒乓圆)
Genre	Sports, Romance
Starring	Joshua Ang Dai Xiangyu Teresa Tseng Kym Ng Guo Liang Zheng Geping Zhou Ying
Opening theme	乒乓圆 by Jeff Wang
Ending theme	哑谜 by Teresa Tseng
Country of origin	Singapore
Original language(s)	Chinese
No. of episodes	20
Production
Producer(s)	Gabriel Cheong (钟建伟)
Running time	approx. 45 minutes per episode
Release
Original network	MediaCorp Channel 8
Original release	1 April – 28 April 2009
Chronology
Preceded by	Housewives' Holiday
Followed by	My School Daze
External links
Website

Table of Glory (simplified Chinese: 乒乓圆) is a Singaporean Chinese Sports and Romance drama which was telecasted on Singapore's free-to-air channel, MediaCorp Channel 8. It made its debut on 1 April 2009 and ended on 28 April 2009. This drama serial consists of 20 episodes, and was screened on every weekday night at 9:00 pm.

Since young, He Sheng Wu (Joshua Ang) has had a passion for table tennis. His mother was a national player and she personally coached him and honed his skills as a table tennis player. However, ever since his mother's untimely death in an accident, Ah Wu became quiet and sullen and withdrew into his own shell. His performance in his studies and at work was affected and he was branded a “loser”. Ah Wu helps out at his father, He Yingxiong's (Zheng Geping) laundry shop. His only comfort is in paddling a table tennis ball against a wall.

He Yingxiong is furious that his son is seemingly useless and wasting his life away paddling a table tennis ball against an empty wall on most days. He refuses to let Ah Wu play table tennis. However, Ah Wu resists all attempts to stop him from playing table tennis and continues to do so. Even though Ah Wu does not have any actual experience playing against a real opponent, and in fact could not even beat a young child at a game of table tennis, he possesses an innate talent for reading his opponent's moves and strategy in the game. This enables him to be the dark horse in some matches, coming back from the brink of defeat to win the game.

Ah Wu is a loner and his only friend is Mai Xiaofen (Teresa Tseng) whom he grew up with. Xiaofen is one of the top female table tennis players, but ever since losing the match with Mary-Ann (Moo Yan Yee), an unknown to the table tennis world until that day, she has been teased about not winning to an unknown, and her mother, ex-national player Mai Tiantian (Kym Ng), is her coach who pushes her hard to train herself to become a top player in the sport. However, Xiaofen lacks confidence. Since she started to play competitively, her personal best has always remained at fourth placing. This led to Xiaofen being nicknamed “Fourth Sister”.

Tiantian and Yingxiong are feuding neighbours and bicker constantly whenever they run into each other. Despite this, Ah Wu and Xiaofen get along fabulously. Ah Wu is secretly in love with Xiaofen but being inarticulate, finds it difficult to express his feelings for her. To make things worse, Xiaofen admires a new player in her table tennis team, the good-looking He Jiajun (Dai Xiangyu). Xiaofen admires Jiajun's skills as a table tennis player and is also infatuated with him thus making her oblivious to Ah Wu's quiet love and concern for her.

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