Originated from England, originated from tennis. /kloc-In the late 20th century, some college students in Britain used a table as a platform, a book as a net, and a bottle stopper as a ball to push around on the table to form a table tennis game. /kloc-around 0/890, the famous British cross-country runner James Gibb brought back a hollow cello ball from the United States to replace the cork. Because of the ping-pong sound made by the ball hitting the wooden stick, it is called "ping-pong". 189 1 year, Charles Baxter, England applied for a commercial patent for table tennis.
A table tennis match with more than 300 participants was held in London. 1902 Professor Hirai Xuandao of Tokyo Teachers College introduced table tennis to Japan. 1904 Wang Daoping, manager of a stationery store in Shanghai Sima Road, bought 10 sets of table tennis equipment from Japan to introduce table tennis activities to China. In the 1920s, table tennis was gradually widely used in Europe, America and Asian countries. 1903, England's Goodall invented the rubber racket, and then the rotary chopping game came out. 65438-0926 World Table Tennis Championships, the International Table Tennis Federation was established. /kloc-in the 1950s, Japan used a sponge racket and introduced the methods of curving, serving and attacking. In 1960s, China launched the fast-break style near Taiwan Province. Table tennis is 2.74m long, 0.525m wide and 0.76m off the ground. There is a vertical net in the middle to divide the table into two equal table areas. The size, shape and weight of the racket are not limited, but the thickness of the granular glue covered on the surface of the racket is at most 2 mm, and the best of three games or best of five games is adopted in each game. The first player to score 2 1 point in each game wins. If the game is tied, the first player to score 2 points wins. Table tennis competition is divided into seven events: men's and women's teams, men's and women's singles, men's and women's doubles and mixed doubles. Table tennis 1988 entered the Olympic Games, with four events: men's and women's singles and men's and women's doubles.
In the 28th Olympic Games in 2004, 172 athletes participated, including 64 men's singles, 64 women's singles and 22 pairs of doubles. There are three ways to qualify for singles events: first, the top 20 athletes in the world announced by the ITTF, and each association can only have two at most; Secondly, the athletes with the best performance in the qualifiers of the intercontinental Olympic Games are Asia 1 1, Africa 6, Europe 1 1, Latin America 6, North America 3 and Oceania 3. Finally, it is the top three before the World Olympic qualifiers. Host Australia has 1 person automatically qualified for the competition. In doubles, athletes' qualifications are determined according to the intercontinental Olympic qualifiers.
The extensive development of table tennis has greatly improved rackets and balls. At first, the 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 Japanese invented the thick sponge racket. The original ball was a rubber ball similar to tennis. 1890, British athlete Gibb
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.