“There's interest in betting on the craziest things right now,” says Morrow. With the sports world shut down due to the coronavirus pandemic, sportsbooks like Bovada are trying whatever they can to keep gamblers engaged. “Ukrainian ping-pong is our flagship right now,” says Pat Morrow, the head oddsmaker at popular sportsbook Bovada. But for the price of a beer in New York, I had more fun looking at my computer screen than I thought possible at this point in quarantine. Back and forth they went, coiled at the top until Naida pulled away and won the match 15 to 13. Litinov was up, and I was a genius-until it fell apart. (I learned very quickly: three rounds wins the match a round goes to 11 and must be won by two.) And it was working. Litinov, poor guy, was almost certain to lose, but there was drama nonetheless: I’d put $10 down mid-match saying he’d live to win one more round. On Thursday afternoon, I watched, rapt, as scrappy underdog Vladislav Litinov took on Alexander Naida in the Setka Cup, a Ukrainian table tennis tournament.

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