The emergence of table tennis was purely accidental. It was caused by two British youths playing. At the end of the 19th century, two young people in London went to a restaurant for dinner one day. While waiting for the waiter to deliver their meal, they felt bored, so they took the lid of the cigar box and played with it, and at the same time pulled the cork from the wine bottle. After coming down, the two of them were going back and forth on the dining table, fighting each other. As a result, they were so fascinated by the game that they didn't even care about eating. From this, this table game quickly evolved and developed into a table tennis match, which swept London and formed a table tennis craze. In order to commemorate the country of invention, the first World Table Tennis Championships was held in London in 1926. When people played table tennis in the early days, most people liked to put a layer of leather or cork on the wooden racket. The rubber racket was first invented and used by Englishman Goode. One day, after a game, Goode went to the drugstore to buy medicine on his way home. When the drugstore owner threw the change to him, the coin bounced on the rubber plate. Goode's eyes suddenly brightened, so he bought a rubber plate from the drugstore owner, put it on his racket, and carefully reformed his original racket. Later, Goode used the world's first rubber-covered racket to compete and easily defeated all his opponents. Since then, rubber rackets have been publicly available. The origin of the name table tennis and others In the history of sports, table tennis can be regarded as a young sport. It has only a history of more than 100 years. Compared with track and field (more than two thousand years ago), it can be regarded as a veritable junior. In 1890, several British naval officers stationed in India accidentally discovered that playing tennis on a small table was quite exciting. Later, they used small hollow leather balls instead of solid balls with little elasticity, and used wooden boards instead of tennis rackets to play this novel "tennis game" on the table. This is where the name table tennis comes from. Soon after Table Tennis appeared, it became a popular sport. At the beginning of the 20th century, the United States began to produce sets of table tennis competition equipment. Initially, table tennis had other names, such as Indoor tennis. Later, an American manufacturer created the new word ping-pong based on the sound made by the impact of the table tennis ball, and used it as a patented registered trademark for the "ping pong ball" he manufactured. Ping-pong later became another official name for table tennis. When it spread to China, people coined the new word "table tennis". In Japanese, table tennis is called "snooker". Many words 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, and the frame supporting the net is called net support. Single-player table tennis matches generally adopt a best-of-three-game or best-of-five-game system. The so-called "game" in English is set. To serve is called serve.
Table tennis originated in the United Kingdom. Europeans still call table tennis "table tennis". It can be seen that table tennis was developed from tennis. At the end of the 19th century, tennis became popular in Europe, but due to restrictions on venues and weather , some college students in the UK moved tennis indoors, used the dining table as a table, books as nets, parchment as rackets, and played back and forth on the dining table. At the beginning of the 20th century, table tennis flourished in Europe and Asia. In 1926, the International Table Tennis Invitational Tournament was held in Berlin, Germany. It was later recognized as the first World Table Tennis Championships. At the same time, the International Table Tennis Federation was established. The widespread development of table tennis led to great improvements in rackets and balls. The original racket was a slightly processed wooden board. Later, someone put a layer of sheepskin on the racket. With the development of modern industry, Europeans attached rubber with rubber particles to the racket. In the early 1950s, the Japanese He also invented a racket with thick sponge attached. The original ball was a rubber ball similar to tennis. In 1890, British athlete Gibb brought back some celluloid balls as toys from the United States for table tennis. In many names, Among table tennis competitions in China, the most prestigious is the World Table Tennis Championships, which were held annually at first and then every two years after 1957. In 1904, Wang Daowu, the owner of a stationery store in Shanghai, bought 10 sets of table tennis balls from Japan. Equipment. Since then, table tennis has been introduced to China. Table tennis originated in Britain around the end of the 19th century, and then spread to the United States, central Europe, Japan, China, South Korea and other places. Table tennis was originally regarded as a recreational activity by many people, but it has developed into one of the major sports in the world. Table tennis was recognized by the Olympic Games in 1988 and officially became a competition, including men's singles, women's singles, men's doubles and women's doubles. Table tennis began in England in the late 19th century. At that time, some college students in the UK used a dining table as a table indoors, and used books or two high-backed chairs hung with a string as a net. They used balls made of cork or rubber and long-handled ovals made of lamb paper. A hollow racket is used to hit the ball back and forth on the table. Originally this game was not called "table tennis", but called "Flim-Flam", also known as "Goossie". Around 1890, James Gibb (AMES Gibb), a retired cross-country runner in England, brought celluloid balls as toys from the United States and came up with the idea of ??using these small balls to replace cork and rubber balls. . Because the lambskin bats used at that time made a "ping-pong" sound when the ball hit the table, it was called "ping-pong" to simulate the sound. Later it was also called "tabie tennis". The birth of table tennis is closely related to the rapid development of tennis. It is actually a variant of tennis. After centuries of evolution and innovation, tennis has become more and more popular, and many businessmen have also focused on this popular sport. Around 1885, some shrewd sports goods manufacturers in Europe and the United States, in order to gain an advantage in the fierce competition for goods and in view of the fact that tennis was popular in the upper class society at that time, ingeniously moved tennis balls from outdoors to indoors, and boldly moved tennis balls from the ground to " Please” come to the table. Therefore, table tennis is also known as "table tennis" in Britain and the United States. At that time, the rackets used to play table tennis were similar to small tennis rackets, and the balls used were also hard but light solid balls. In 1890, a British engineer named Gibb came up with the novel idea of ??using celluloid to make hollow balls. After continuous exploration and repeated development, five years later, this hollow ball miraculously appeared in people's lives. As the quality of the ball changed, the racket also underwent major changes, from the original small tennis racket to a wooden racket. These major changes directly led to the emergence of the name table tennis. When the wooden racket hits the celluloid ball, it makes a crisp sound - "ping". People named this kind of ball table tennis based on this feature. In actual sports, the long handle of the racket brought great inconvenience to the players, so people changed the long racket to a short racket. Of course, table tennis was only a court sports game in its early days, and was widely circulated as an elegant entertainment activity among nobles in some European and American countries. Later, as the sport became more and more perfect and the number of participants increased dramatically, this elegant game broke out of the wealthy families and flowed into the people. It combined elegance and vulgarity, continued to spread, and gradually became a popular game among people from all over the world. All favorite sports and Olympic events.