Table tennis originated in Britain, and the name "table tennis" originated from 1900, so it was named after the sound of "table tennis" when it was struck. In Chinese mainland, "table tennis" is its official name, as are China, Hongkong and Macau. 1926 65438+ 10, an international table tennis competition was held in Berlin, Germany, with 64 male athletes from 9 countries participating. In February of the same year, the International Table Tennis Federation was formally established, and the European Championship held in London was named the first World Table Tennis Championship.
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Table tennis originated in England. /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, British athlete Gibb brought back some celluloid balls from America as table tennis toys. Several British naval officers stationed in India happened to find it quite exciting to play tennis on a small table. Later, they used solid rubber instead of solid balls with little elasticity, then changed them into hollow plastic balls, and used wooden boards instead of rackets to play this novel "tennis match" on the table, so table tennis was born.