It sounds like you have an aversion to sports because you were forced to participate in them as a child, which is completely understandable. If someone had coerced you into the school's drama program you might find theater revolting as an adult as well.
It might help to think of sports less as "people playing a simple game" and more as "a demonstration of human athleticism at the highest level". The game is just a pretext. When you watch table tennis, you're viewing people with some of the most finely honed fast twitch muscle fibers, reflexes, and hand eye coordination in the world demonstrate their skills, not just people bouncing a ball back and forth across a table.
You might also enjoy the data analysis aspect of sports. Sports are increasingly being dictated by statistics. It's somewhat cliche at this point to recommend it, but if you haven't already, it might be worth watching the movie Moneyball (or reading the book it's based on).
It might help to think of sports less as "people playing a simple game" and more as "a demonstration of human athleticism at the highest level". The game is just a pretext. When you watch table tennis, you're viewing people with some of the most finely honed fast twitch muscle fibers, reflexes, and hand eye coordination in the world demonstrate their skills, not just people bouncing a ball back and forth across a table.
You might also enjoy the data analysis aspect of sports. Sports are increasingly being dictated by statistics. It's somewhat cliche at this point to recommend it, but if you haven't already, it might be worth watching the movie Moneyball (or reading the book it's based on).