It is thought that upper-class Victorians in England invented table tennis in the s as a genteel, after-dinner alternative to lawn tennis, using whatever they could find as equipment. A line of books would often be the net, the rounded top of a champagne cork would be the ball and occasionally a cigar box lid would be a racket.
In , meetings were held in Berlin and London that led to the formation of the International Table Tennis Federation. The first World Championships were held in London in , but the sport had to wait a long time before it was given its Olympic debut at the Seoul Games.
The sport has progressed enormously since it was first invented. Nowadays, players use specially developed rubber-coated wooden and carbon-fibre rackets and a lightweight, hollow celluloid ball. This one is a little easier to clear up. It's a paddle. A piece of sporting equipment is only a racket or racquet if it has strings i.
However, if you really want to talk like a Table Tennis pro, you can call it a "bat. Table Tennis balls used to be made of a celluloid material.
They have extremely strict requirements about the kind of plastic, the size, and the roundness of the ball. A professional or Olympic table tennis match is played in games to 11 not 21! Much like how a tennis match is a best of 5 sets, a table tennis match will be a best of 7 of these games to Service alternates 2 serves each not 5! If the score reaches , this is a deuce. In deuce, service alternates 1 serve each until someone has a two point lead.
If you want your home match to count as regulation, this should be eliminated from your ping-pong rulebook. When playing doubles, the rules are all the same except for the fact that team members must alternate who hits the ball, switching off every shot. Another important rule in Table Tennis is that it is illegal to touch the table. It is also illegal to move the table during a point. Now that you know the history of the game and more of the rules, practice up in time for The Tokyo Olympics!
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More Brands. Table tennis is among the 28 sports that will take place at the Olympics this summer. You might be familiar with table tennis, otherwise known as ping pong, a common leisure game in the United States.
Table tennis at the Olympics is a little more complicated, though. Table tennis matches at the Olympics all begin with a coin toss by the umpire. The winner can decide to either serve the ball, receive the ball or pick which side of the table to start on. In singles competition, the server can serve the ball to any part of the table. In doubles, the serve must travel diagonally across the table.
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