as marketing for SPiN. In 2022, he was featured in Unanimous Media's The Greatest Sports Stories Never Told. Personal life Green suffered from pain for several years, and underwent hip resurfacing in 2018. As of 2022, he is married to a Japanese pop singer. They live in Harlem and have a son. See also Ping-pong diplomacy References External links Green Wally at Table Tennis Guide The first-person story of how ping pong saved the life of a New York City kid and took him all the way to North Korea New York Daily News, 2018, by Wally Green Taking ping pong from losing, to winning, to diplomacy in North Korea - Wally Green, 2022 TEDx video Living people 1979 births American male table tennis players 20th-century African-American sportspeople 21st-century African-American sportspeople