It’s just what the sports world needed, right? TeqBall is a fast-moving combination of table tennis and soccer played in singles, doubles, and mixed-doubles formats.
Invented in Hungary by football-enthusiast techies in 2012, players can only hit the ball over the table’s net with kicks or headers. The sport is attracting its share of current and former soccer players among the 125 nations already competing in TeqBall. The specially designed, sloping table has been patented by the founders who are banking on the sport’s growth.
TeqBall has its own governing body (FITEQ), was sanctioned globally as a legitimate sport in 2020, and has filed for inclusion in the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics as a demonstration sport. Of course it has.
TeqBall may seem ridiculous, but so did all the summer and winter X Games when they debuted. I recall standing on hilly Thayer Street in Providence watching street luge in the first-ever X Games in 1995 wondering whether those sports would stick. Ha!
