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Ping Pong

2021 · 1 season

A earnest sports drama that builds tension through intense matches and personal growth, with a warm, motivational tone.

Created by: Hulk Cheng
Genres: Drama
Starring: Bai Jingting, Timmy Xu, Wan Guopeng

Overview: Endless competitions take place on the ping pong tables with two young men at the center. Xu Tan is physically weak but strongly passionate and Yu Kenan is unruly but talented. Despite their opposite personalities, Xu Tan and Yu Kenan's mirror the same journey in their sports careers and witness a pivotal time in the history of Chinese ping pong. Xu Tan is a player who undergoes a major transformation. Under the influence of his grandfather, he starts the sport to improve his health and gets noticed for his abilities. Yu Kenan is the star player from a famous family who comes to realize that there are many things he has yet to learn. For their dreams and for the sake of their country, they stand at two ends during the biggest competition of their lives.

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Created by: Hulk Cheng
Genres: Drama
Starring: Bai Jingting, Timmy Xu, Wan Guopeng

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Tone: earneststrength 2 of 3
upliftingstrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 1 of 3
warmstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: ambition
coming-of-age
friendship
identity
family
Places: workplace
Era: contemporary
Audience: teen
Form: serialised
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex none

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Action	5
Horror	0
Humour	3
Realism	7
Romance	2
Tension	6
Darkness	3
Complexity	5
Emotional weight	6

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Genres: drama
Created by: Hulk Cheng
Written by: Wen Rui
Starring: Bai Jingting, Timmy Xu, Wan Guopeng, Yu Lang, Liu Zhibing, Zhao Chengshun, Gao Dongping, Du Shuangyu
Length: 1 seasons, 44 episodes, 45 min each
Network: iQiyi
Country: China
Languages: Mandarin

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