1. In 1903, the Englishman Goode invented the rubber racket, which effectively promoted the development of table tennis technology.
2. In the early 1950s, the Austrians invented the sponge racket, and Japanese sportsmanship used it in world competitions, and won four championships in the 19th World Championships, breaking the record of European athletes. monopoly position.
3. As table tennis developed in Japan and China, European athletes learned lessons from their failures. After nearly two decades of hard work, they finally adopted Japanese loop ball technology and China's near-table fast break. The strength of the method created an advanced style of play suitable for them, that is, a style of play based on loop balls combined with fast breaks.
Since the 1970s, due to the strengthening of international exchanges and study and research, various playing styles have learned from each other's strengths, resulting in faster development and improvement of table tennis technology. For example, China's close-to-the-table fast break, pen-hold fast break combined with loop shots, and horizontal fast break combined with loop shots have all developed and innovated, and have achieved excellent results in international competitions.
Table tennis has developed into one of the favorite sports for people all over the world. The International Table Tennis Federation also has 127 member associations/is one of the largest sports organizations in the world. There are countless world championships, World Cups, intercontinental competitions and international competitions of various sizes and forms organized by the ITTF and table tennis federations on all continents.
Extended information:
Table tennis originated in Britain. At the end of the 19th century, tennis was popular in Europe. However, due to restrictions on venues and weather, some British college students moved tennis indoors, using the dining table as a table, books as nets, parchment as rackets, and playing on the dining table. . In 1890, several British naval officers stationed in India accidentally discovered that playing tennis on a small table was quite exciting.
Later they switched to using solid rubber instead of the less elastic solid balls, and then to hollow plastic balls, and used wooden boards instead of tennis rackets to play this novel "tennis game" on the table. This is where Table Tennis got its name.
Not long after table tennis appeared, it 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-holding sport in the United States, with more than 200,000 Americans playing table tennis.
Initially, Table tennis had other names, such as Indoor tennis. Later, an American manufacturer created the new word Ping-pang based on the sound made by the impact of the table tennis ball.
As the patented registered trademark of the "table tennis" he manufactured, Ping-pang later became another official name of Table tennis. When it spread to China, people created the new word "table tennis".
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