/kloc-At the end of 0/9, tennis was all the rage in Europe. However, due to the limitation of venue and weather, some college students in Britain move 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 in India came across playing tennis on a small table.
Later, they used solid rubber instead of solid balls, then hollow plastic balls and wooden boards instead of rackets to play this novel "tennis match" on the table, which is the origin of the name table tennis.
Soon after its appearance, table tennis became a popular sport.
At the beginning of the 20th century, the United States began to produce complete sets of table tennis equipment. Table tennis is the number one grip sport in the United States, and more than 200,000 Americans play table tennis.
At first, table tennis had other names, such as indoor tennis. Later, an American manufacturer coined the new word Ping-pang with the sound of ping-pong hitting, which became another official name of ping-pong. When table tennis was introduced to China, people created a new word-table tennis.
Many words in table tennis come from tennis.
The ball used for table tennis is called table tennis or table tennis, the table is called table tennis table, the table is called court, the net in the middle is called net support, and the table tennis bat is called table tennis bat.
Table tennis singles usually adopt two wins in three games or two wins in five games (2 1 minute per game), but in 2006, it was changed to two wins in seven games or two wins in five games (1 1 minute per game). The so-called "game" is to set and serve in English.
Among all kinds of table tennis competitions, the most famous is the World Table Tennis Championships, which was held once a year at first, and changed to be held every two years after 1957.
At the beginning of the 20th century, table tennis flourished in Europe and Asia.
1926, International Table Tennis Invitational Tournament was held in Berlin, Germany.
Later, it was regarded as the first world table tennis championship and the International Table Tennis Federation was established.
1926, the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) was formally established and decided to hold the first World Table Tennis Championships.
The development of table tennis has roughly gone through three stages.
In the early days, although the rackets used by athletes were of different shapes, they were all made of wood. The ball bounces slowly and weakly, and there is no spinning skill. The play is also very simple, that is, pushing the ball between two people.
65438-0936, the 10th World Table Tennis Championships was held in Prague, Hungary, and there was an amazing situation in the competition.
Men's team championships were held in Romania and Austria. The game starts at 2 1 on Sunday.
There are three chippers on each side of the clinker. Because of the same style of play and similar level, both of them adopted mushroom tactics, refused to stumble easily and tried to win from their opponents' mistakes.
Is the game until 3 o'clock or 2: 2?
According to local regulations, public places must be closed at 3 o'clock, which led to the intervention of the police. In the end, Austria won with 3 1 5-4.
1903, an Englishman Goodall invented the rubber racket, which strongly promoted the development of table tennis technology.
From 1926 to 195 1, most players around the world use rubber bats with cylindrical particles on their surfaces.
When hitting the ball, the elasticity and friction increase, which can make the ball rotate to a certain extent, so the defensive style of cutting off the rotating ball appears.
This style of play has been popular in Europe for a long time, and many athletes have won the world championship with this style of play.
The advantage of table tennis in this period was in Europe, among which Hungary scored the most outstanding. In the 1 17 world champions, they won 57 times, accounting for half of the European team.
But this racket can only be used for backspin.
Everyone is here, dawdling, even if you win the championship, it doesn't make sense.
The extensive development of table tennis has greatly improved rackets and balls.
The original racket was a slightly processed board.
Then someone put a layer of sheepskin on the racket.
With the development of modern industry, Europeans put rubber with rubber particles on rackets.
In the early 1950s, the Austrian invented the sponge racket.
The original ball was a rubber ball similar to tennis. 1890, British athlete Gibb brought back some celluloid balls from America as table tennis toys.
From 65438 to 0959, after Rong Guotuan won the men's singles championship in the 25th World Table Tennis Championships, China athletes began to enter the international table tennis arena.
Gradually formed a "fast, accurate, ruthless, changing" technical style of the fast-break style.
In the 26th World Championships of 196 1, China not only broke through Europe, but also defeated the Japanese player who won the secret weapon-"curling ball" and won the men's team world championship for the first time.
And won the 27th and 28th men's team championships in succession.
The advantage of China's near-table fast break is its close position, high speed, flexible action and free use of forehand and backhand, which is a great progress compared with Japanese long-distance draw.
In 1960s, China's table tennis skills were in the forefront of the world, and its advantages were transferred from Japan to China.
This is the second big improvement in table tennis.
At the same time of the development of table tennis in China, European athletes learn from their failures. After nearly 20 years' efforts, they finally absorbed the advantages of Japanese loop ball technology and China's near-table fast-break play, and created an advanced play that suits them, that is, the combination of loop ball and fast-break play.
The representative figures are Hungarian Crampa and Jonel.
The combination of fast break and loop ball is based on forehand and backhand fast break as the main technique, backhand fast break as the initiative and forehand loop ball as the scoring means.
Representative figures are Gehlsen of Sweden and Olovsky of Czech Republic.
These two styles of play are characterized by strong landing point, fast speed, strong pulling and hitting ability, low pulling and high hitting, and large room for manoeuvre.
Table tennis has developed to a new height, and its position and speed are closely combined.
This is the third big improvement in table tennis.
Since the 1970s, due to the strengthening of international exchanges and learning, various styles of play complement each other, so that table tennis technology has been developed and improved faster.
For example, China's near-table fast break, straight-shot fast break combined with loop ball, and horizontal-shot fast break combined with loop ball have all developed and innovated, and achieved excellent results in international competitions.
The International Table Tennis Federation has 186 member associations and is one of the largest sports organizations in the world.
Starting from 1982, the International Olympic Committee adopted the decision to list table tennis as an official Olympic event from 1988, which promoted the faster development of table tennis.
The "small ball" became a "big ball"
In the early 1980s, after the China team won seven championships in the 36th World Table Tennis Championships, some people put forward the suggestion of increasing table tennis and nets, but this suggestion didn't get people's attention.
Since then, the technology of table tennis has been developing, the speed of the ball is getting faster and faster, the rotation is getting stronger and stronger, and many athletes have fewer rounds in the competition; Sometimes the ball flies like lightning before the audience can see it clearly, and the outcome has been decided, which weakens the interest of table tennis fans.
1999 At the ITTF Congress held during the 45th World Table Tennis Championships held by David, the proposal of "big ball reform" was shelved because it did not get a three-quarters majority vote.
On February 23, 2000, ITTF Special Congress and Congress passed the reform plan of 40mm big ball in Kuala Lumpur, and decided to use a big ball with a diameter of 40mm and a weight of 2. 7g from June, 2000, 65438+1 October1,thus replacing the ball with 38mm.
After the founding of New China, Chairman * * * called for "developing sports and enhancing people's physique". Table tennis has been well developed in the whole country because of its low requirements for venues and simplicity.
Table tennis player Rong Guotuan won the first world championship for China with 65438-0959, which attracted worldwide attention.
The people of China are very excited.
At the 26th World Table Tennis Championships, Zhuang Zedong and Qiu Zhonghui won the men's singles and women's singles respectively, and China also won the men's team championship.
From this time on, table tennis in China began to dominate the world, and table tennis was booming.
By 2005, * * * had won 143.5 gold medals, including/kloc-0.5 in the World Championships, 27 in the World Cup and 0/6 in the Olympic Games.
In addition, it won all seven gold cups in the world championships three times and all four gold medals in the Olympic Games twice.
This achievement is enough to make people proud.
Secondly, table tennis is not harsh and participatory.
Men, women and children can fight, all over the world, indoors and outdoors, with or without money.
Good conditions can be played with advanced tables, poor conditions can also be played with cement tables, and several tables can be played together without tables.
Fortunately, the weather can be played in the open air, and you can play in a small room when it is windy and snowy.
Table tennis is also a whole-body exercise, which strengthens the body, the brain and the heart.
Compared with football, basketball and other sports, there is no direct physical confrontation, and you can control the amount of exercise yourself, which is very conducive to popularization.
In a word, this sport is especially suitable for China's national conditions, and is widely loved by Chinese people, with a high popularity.
Over the years, China players have been doing well in table tennis: Wang Tao, Kong and Liu are men's events, and Deng Yaping, Qiao Hong, Wang Nan and Zhang Yining are women's events.
Looking back on the number of gold medals won by China table tennis team in previous Olympic Games: 2 in Seoul Olympic Games, 3 in Barcelona Olympic Games, 4 in Atlanta Olympic Games, 4 in Sydney and 3 in Athens ... Over the years, China table tennis team has been appearing as a "dream team" in the Olympic Games, and table tennis is one of the most stable gold medals won by China delegation.