13 November 2013
Come on Pippa Middleton, show us how good you really are at whiff-whaff. Director Richard Curtis is holding an all comers’ ping pong tournament next month after a special screening of his latest film, About Time. The movie features numerous scenes of Tim Lake (Domhnall Gleeson) playing whiff-whaff with his father (Bill Nighy) and the director has agreed to introduce the film at bar Bounce, on the site of where the game was patented in 1901, followed by a tournament. “Until I was 21, we played every day in the garage,” said Curtis. “How did I not notice that I always won by three points — that my dad always let me come out on top?”
