Ai Fukuhara, a hugeTable Tennis Star

Ai is a huge star not only in Table Tennis in her country, but is a celebrity overall. She is an Olympian and a contender at major championships.

She has featured in two Table Tennis video games - Ikuze! Onsen Takkyū!! (Do it! Hot Spring Table Tennis!!) and Fukuhara Ai No Takkyū Icchokusen (Ai Fukuhara's Table Tennis) for Play Station 2.

She has carried the Olympic flame in Tokyo in 2004 and in 2008 at Beijing (where she was the nation's flag bearer).


Ai speaks fluent Mandarin Chinese. Such is her popularity, that she has featured in events with Chinese Premier Hu Jintao and Jackie Chan.

Celebrities who play Table Tennis

Sachin sharing your passion

We all know that Table Tennis is a hugely popular sport, played in over 200 countries around the world. Did you know that Sachin Tendulkar, Salman Rushdie, Vladimir Putin, Prince Charles, Bill Clinton, Hu Jintao and many others share this passion?

We will share some names and photographs on this Web site.

• Sachin Tendulkar (again)
• Salman Rushdie - Famous Author
• Shirley Temple - Famous Actress
• Susan Sarandon - Actress (Big one - Co-owner of SPiN, New York TT and Social Club. Thanks Sushrut!)
• David Cameron - Prime Minister of England
• Goh Chok Tong - Former Prime Minister of Singapore
• Lee Kuan Yew- Former Prime Minister Singapore
• Tony Blair - Prime Minister of United Kingdom
• Camilla Parker Bowles - Duchess of Cornwall
• Prince Charles of Britain
• George H.W. Bush
• Felipe Calderon - President of Mexico
• Bill & Hillary Clinton - President and First Lady US (1993-2001)
• Hu Jintao - Chinese president
• Richard Nixon - Ex US President
• Göran Persson - Former Prime Minister of Sweden