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Joshua Eugene B.

Vergel 11-Curie

- History of table tennis

The sport originated in Victorian England, where it was played among the upper-class as an after-
dinner parlour game.It has been suggested that makeshift versions of the game were developed by
British military officers in India in around 1860s or 1870s, who brought it back with them. A row of
books stood up along the center of the table as a net, two more books served as rackets and were used
to continuously hit a golf-ball.

The name "ping-pong" was in wide use before British manufacturer J. Jaques & Son Ltd trademarked it
in 1901. The name "ping-pong" then came to describe the game played using the rather expensive
Jaques's equipment, with other manufacturers calling it table tennis. A similar situation arose in the
United States, where Jaques sold the rights to the "ping-pong" name to Parker Brothers. Parker Brothers
then enforced its trademark for the term in the 1920s making the various associations change their
names to "table tennis" instead of the more common, but trademarked, term.

The next major innovation was by James W. Gibb, a British enthusiast of table tennis, who discovered
novelty celluloid balls on a trip to the US in 1901 and found them to be ideal for the game. This was
followed by E.C. Goode who, in 1901, invented the modern version of the racket by fixing a sheet of
pimpled, or stippled, rubber to the wooden blade. Table tennis was growing in popularity by 1901 to the
extent that tournaments were being organized, books being written on the subject, and an unofficial
world championship was held in 1902.

In 1921, the Table Tennis Association was founded in Britain, and the International Table Tennis
Federation (ITTF) followed in 1926. London hosted the first official World Championships in 1926. In
1933, the United States Table Tennis Association, now called USA Table Tennis, was formed.

In the 1930s, Edgar Snow commented in Red Star Over China that the Communist forces in the Chinese
Civil War had a "passion for the English game of table tennis" which he found "bizarre". On the other
hand, the popularity of the sport waned in 1930s Soviet Union, partly because of the promotion of team
and military sports, and partly because of a theory that the game had adverse health effects.

In the 1950s, paddles that used a rubber sheet combined with an underlying sponge layer changed the
game dramatically, introducing greater spin and speed.These were introduced to Britain by sports goods
manufacturer S.W. Hancock Ltd. The use of speed glue increased the spin and speed even further,
resulting in changes to the equipment to "slow the game down". Table tennis was introduced as an
Olympic sport at the Olympics in 1988.

-Basic Skills of Table Tennis

The first three techniques (grip, stance and footwork) and the solid foundation that you will build
everything else on top of. Make sure you get them right!
The next four techniques (drives and pushes) are the basic strokes. It's important to fully master these
so that you can play them automatically/subconsciously. These strokes will also be the foundation for
other more advanced strokes. Get the technique right for your drive and push and you'll master the
loop, block, chop, open-up, and all the other strokes must faster.

The final three techniques (serve, return and match play) will help you to actually start getting some
results in your matches. Introducing even just some basic strategy/tactics can have a big effect against
other beginners.

- Equipment of Table Tennis


The Ball --The international rules specify that the game is played with a sphere having a mass of
2.7 grams (0.095 oz) and a diameter of 40 millimetres (1.57 in). The rules say that the ball shall
bounce up 2426 cm (9.410.2 in) when dropped from a height of 30.5 cm (12.0 in) onto a
standard steel block thereby having a coefficient of restitution of 0.89 to 0.92. The ball is made
of celluloid plastic as of 2015, colored white or orange, with a matte finish. The choice of ball
color is made according to the table color and its surroundings.
The table-- is 2.74 m (9.0 ft) long, 1.525 m (5.0 ft) wide, and 76 cm (2.5 ft) high with any
continuous material so long as the table yields a uniform bounce of about 23 cm (9.1 in) when a
standard ball is dropped onto it from a height of 30 cm (11.8 in), or about 77%. The table or
playing surface is uniformly dark coloured and matte, divided into two halves by a net at
15.25 cm (6.0 in) in height.
The Paddle-- Players are equipped with a laminated wooden racket covered with rubber on one
or two sides depending on the grip of the player. The ITTF uses the term "racket", though "bat"
is common in Britain, and "paddle" in the U.S. and Canada.

- Rules of Table Tennis

Scoring--A match is played best 3 of 5 games (or 4/7 or 5/9). For each game, the first player to
reach 11 points wins that game, however a game must be won by at least a two point margin.A
point is scored after each ball is put into play (not just when the server wins the point as in
volleyball).The edges of the table are part of the legal table surface, but not the sides.
Flow of the match--Each player serves two points in a row and then switch server. However, if a
score of 10-10 is reached in any game, then each server serves only one point and then the
server is switched. After each game, the players switch side of the table. In the final game (ie 5th
game), the players switch side again after either player reaches 5 points.
Legal serve--The ball must rest on an open hand palm. Then it must be tossed up at least 6
inches and struck so the ball first bounces on the server's side and then the opponent's side.If
the serve is legal except that it touches the net, it is called a let serve. Let serves are not scored
and are reserved.
Equipment--The paddle should have a red and a black side. The ball should be either orange or
white and 40 mm in size. The table should be 2.74 meters long, 1.525 m wide, and 0.76 m high.

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