Table tennis originated in England. /kloc-At the end of 0/9, tennis was all the rage in Europe. However, due to the limited space and weather, some college students in England moved tennis indoors, using the dining table as a table, books as a net, parchment as a racket and playing around the dining table. 1890, several British naval officers stationed in India came across that playing tennis on a small table was quite exciting. Later, they used solid rubber instead of solid balls with little elasticity, then changed them into hollow plastic balls, and used wooden boards instead of rackets to play this novel tennis game on the table. This is the origin of the name table tennis.
At first, table tennis had other names, such as indoor tennis. Later, an American manufacturer created the new word Ping-pang as the registered trademark of his table tennis patent, and Ping-pang later became another official name of table tennis. When it spread to China, it took "table tennis" as its official name in Chinese mainland, and so did China, Hongkong and Macau.
4. 1926 65438+ 10 In October, an international table tennis competition was held in Berlin, Germany, in which 64 male athletes from 9 countries participated. In February of the same year, the International Table Tennis Federation was formally established, and the European Championship held in London was named the first World Table Tennis Championship.