Table tennis is known as the "national game" of China. In fact, it originated in England. 1890, several British naval officers stationed in India came across that playing tennis on a small table was quite exciting. Later, they used small hollow balls instead of solid balls with little elasticity and wooden boards instead of rackets to play this novel "tennis match" on the table, which is the origin of the name tabletennis.
At the beginning of the 20th century, the United States began to produce complete sets of table tennis equipment. Later, an American manufacturer created the new word "ping-pong" with the sound made when ping-pong was struck. As the registered trademark of his "tabletennis" patent, table tennis later became another official name of Table Tennis. When it spread to China, people created a new word "table tennis".
Table tennis venue requirements:
The floor of table tennis court should be made of wooden floor or movable plastic floor of brand and model approved by ITTF. The floor is elastic, and there are no other signs and signs of movement. The color of the floor should not be too light or too reflective, but red or crimson; Don't use too much oil or wax to avoid slipping.
The wind speed in the table tennis hall is controlled within 0.2 ~ 0.3m/s, and the temperature is about 20 ~ 25℃, or 5℃ lower than the outdoor temperature.