Earlier this morning Good Day New York’s Rosanna Scotto and Greg Kelly faced off in ping pong and even used some PaddleYou paddles. You can see the whole segment here, but check out the most important part when Rosanna Scotto turns to her “special paddle” which featured Greg Kelly’s face. You can get 10% of PaddleYou.com using code GOODDAYNY1.

It’s official: 2013 is the year of the ping pong commercial. We may have inadvertently started the trend by creating such serious competition last year during the Olympics and the end the year, but we have to give credit to the advertisers who have stepped their table tennis ping pong game up.

Today, Just for Men joins the party.

Just for Men helps men from getting grey hair, and the new product they’re pushing is Autostop a beard/hair product that stops changing color at the right time. Just for Men may not be the first men’s hair product to use ping pong in their commercial, or the first men’s hygiene product to incorporate table tennis, but something about those Warren Buffet-esque paddles (or Chanel) makes us happy.

Let us know what you guys think on facebook, twitter, and google plus?

The Taiwanese team of Chuang Chih-yuan and Chen Chien-an defeated the Chinese team of Ma Lin and Hao Shuai at the World Table Tennis Championships in Paris.

The win was a huge upset and was Taiwan’s first gold medal in the World Championships EVER (the country started competing in 1985).

Via the Taipei Times:

“This is an important milestone in our table tennis history,” Chinese Taipei Table Tennis Association secretary-general Chen Ching-yen said.
Chuang and Chen Chien-an toppled their formidable Chinese opponents, Ma Lin and Hao Shuai, 4-2 (9-11, 12-10, 11-6, 13-11, 9-11 and 11-8) to secure the title.
Taiwan’s previous best result at the event had been a silver medal won by Chen Jing in the women’s singles 20 years ago.
“This is the first time in our history, so this is a good result,” said 32-year-old Chuang, a veteran player who ranks sixth in the world. “We played well and did very well tactically, both serving and receiving.”
Chuang was full of praise for his 21-year-old partner, Chen Chien-an.
“I think [he] is a very tactical player, he’s powerful and I play well with him,” the right-hander said.

Ma Lin is now quitting the Chinese National team as a result, “I think [I] will quit the national team of China because at my age I have to rethink my career and my life, but for now I don’t have any exact information. I don’t have the exact plans.” Ma Lin is only 34.

The loss prevented China from getting its eleventh consecutive doubles title at the World Championships.

Don’t feel too bad for China though, they won everything else at the World Championships (sound familiar?).

You can check out some of the (not-so-exciting) “highlights” below.

We love ping pong commercials. Since everyone likes ping pong, the sport seems like the perfect way to sell products and a lot of marketers (who also love ping pong) are taking notice–just this year we’ve seen ads from Apple, Microsoft, Optimum, Degree, IZOD, and more. Never, have we seen an ad with the absurdities, ridiculousness, and what-the-ping-pong-ness? of Powerful Yogurt’s new ad called “Ping Pong Man.”

Powerful Yogurt “Ping Pong Man” by TDL Soundtracks from TDL Soundtracks on Vimeo.

The ad by New York agency The Vidal Partnership encourages you to find your abs using Powerful Yogurt–a yogurt with extra protein. This is basically the Orange Caramel “Lipstick” of ping pong ads. We’re speechless.

If nothing else, look at all the awesome GIFs that come out of 30 seconds…

These are hilarious. Right? It’s not just us?

Would you rather play ping pong with your abs like Powerful Yogurt thinks you should, or with your butt the way Microsoft encouraged it?

Via Vimeo