Table tennis originated in England. At the end of the 19th century, tennis was popular in Europe. However, due to the limitation of venues and weather, some college students in the UK moved tennis indoors, using the dining table as the table, the book as the net, and the parchment as the racket, playing around on the dining table. . In 1890, several British naval officers stationed in India stumbled upon the thrill of playing tennis on a small table. Later, they switched to solid rubber instead of a solid ball with little elasticity, then changed to a hollow plastic ball, and replaced the racket with a wooden board, and played this novel "tennis game" on the table, which is where Table tennis got its name.
Table tennis soon became a popular sport. At the beginning of the 20th century, the United States began to produce complete sets of table tennis equipment. It is the number one racket sport in the United States, with more than 200,000 Americans playing table tennis. At first, Table tennis had other names, such as Indoor tennis. Later, an American manufacturer created the new word Ping-pang with the sound of table tennis hitting it, as a patent registered trademark of "table tennis" he made, Ping-pang later became another official name of Table tennis, and when it spread to China, people coined the new word " Ping-pong".
Many terms used in table tennis are derived from tennis. The ball used to play table tennis is called Ping-pong ball or Table-tennis ball, the table tennis table is called Ping-pong table, the table is called Court, the net in the middle is called Net, the rack supporting the net is called Net support, and the table tennis racket is called Ping- pong bat.
Table tennis single-player games used to be best-of-three or best-of-five (21 points per game). ", English is Set, serving is called Serve.
Among the various table tennis competitions, the most prestigious is the World Table Tennis Championships, which were held once a year at first, but were held every two years after 1957.
Post time: Apr-08-2022