Mondial Ping – Men’s Singles – Round 4 – Kenta Matsudaira-Vladimir Samsonov – 57. Table tennis, also known as ping-pong and whiff-whaff, is a sport in which two or four players hit beer pong team names lightweight ball, also known as the ping-pong ball, back and forth across a table using small solid rackets. It takes place on a hard table divided by a net.

ITTF currently includes 226 member associations. The official rules are specified in the ITTF handbook. The sport originated in Victorian England, where it was played among the upper-class as an after-dinner parlour game. The name “ping-pong” was in wide use before British manufacturer J. 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. 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. Goode who, in 1901, invented the modern version of the racket by fixing a sheet of pimpled, or stippled, rubber to the wooden blade. 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”. 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. After the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, the ITTF instituted several rule changes that were aimed at making table tennis more viable as a televised spectator sport. The international rules specify that the game is played with a sphere having a mass of 2.

The table or playing surface is uniformly dark colored and matte, divided into two halves by a net at 15. The ITTF approves only wooden tables or their derivates. India’s Manika Batra hits the ball. She specialises in playing long-pimples on her backhand, a rubber which is not often played by top players.

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. The wooden portion of the racket, often referred to as the “blade”, commonly features anywhere between one and seven plies of wood, though cork, glass fiber, carbon fiber, aluminum fiber, and Kevlar are sometimes used. Table tennis regulations allow different rubber surfaces on each side of the racket.