In the history of sports, table tennis is a young sport with a history of only 100 years. Compared with track and field (more than two thousand years), it can be said that it is a real teenager.

1890, several British naval officers stationed in India happened to find it exciting to play tennis on a small platform. Later, they used hollow balls instead of solid balls and wooden boards instead of tennis rackets. This is the origin of table tennis.

Table tennis became a popular sport as soon as it appeared. At the beginning of the 20th century, the United States began to produce complete sets of table tennis equipment.

Later, an American manufacturer used the sound of table tennis collision as a patent trademark and created the word "table tennis", which later became another official name of table tennis.

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The English pronunciations of table tennis mainly include table tennis and ping pong, among which table tennis is the most common one in the world.

Table tennis originated in Britain, and the name "table tennis" originated from 1900, which was named after the sound of "table tennis" when hitting.

Table tennis is the national sport of China, and it is also a popular ball game in the world, including attack, confrontation and defense. The competition is divided into teams, singles and doubles. Now the table tennis match is divided into one game 1 1. Adopt two wins in five games and two wins in seven games.

Ping pong is a common English translator in China.

An example of table tennis

This table is for you to play table tennis. ?

This table is for you to play table tennis.

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