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BANGKOK (AFP) – Combining football and table tennis, teqball competitors lunged and lobbed football balls at the Bangkok Arena on Sunday, in the first World Championships outside Europe. Invented in 2012 in Hungary, a record number of participants took part over the weekend, with retired football great and teqball ambassador Ronaldinho making an appearance. Bounding […]
THE inaugural Liga Teqball Malaysia (LTM) 2023 came to a close with the DBKL Hunters emerging victorious after two days of intense battling at the KL Gateway Mall Central Piazza.
Fadhil Yunus
Many sporting enthusiasts in the country are still not familiar with teqball as a sport; even hearing about it seems to be a rarity, let alone playing the sport.
Relatively new in the sporting sphere, teqball is popularly played overseas. It was introduced in Brunei Darussalam last year to encourage the community to practise an active and healthy lifestyle.
It combines elements of football and table tennis mainly played on a curved table. Initially, the founder of the sport used a ping pong table. However, innovation inspired the creation of an arch-shaped table called a teqboard, which typically measures in at three metres in length, 1.5 metres wide and 0.76m high.