Its All About Table Tennis....: March 2009

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

What You Know About Table Tennis?

Table tennis is another name for the game Ping pong also known as Gossima. This is the second fastest game among all sports.

This is a indoor game played by two or four persons. The game is played on a wooden board. The ball used is made up of celluloid like material and must be 40mm in diameter. The net of 11cm height from the surface of the board divides the board to two playing platform. While serving, the player should toss the ball and the ball should pitch once in his court and then moves to the opponent’s court without touching the net. The opponent must reply in such a way that the ball should not pitch in his court again. If he fails to do so, the served one will score a point. Five serves in a row will be there for each player. The one, who scores 21 points, wins the game. But rules have been changed by ITTF and the game is now played for 11 points and played for the best of seven matches.

The player must serve in an open palm and the ball should be latent. Then the server tosses the ball upwards and then hits it with racquet (table tennis bat). Before passing to opponent’s court the ball should bounce in his court. While going, if it touches the net and falls to opponent’s court, then the serve should be re-done. If he fails to do the serve as mentioned earlier, the opponent will gain a point.

Table tennis with its unique terms sounds different. Forehand, backhand, Topspin, backspin, lob, chop, and high toss serves, tomahawk and inside out are the special terms usually used in table tennis. Here a match is played as a series of 3, 5 and 7 games. One who wins the highest of set will be the winner. The racquet paddle is made out of wood and is called plank. The plank is covered with red and black rubbers, each on one side.

The game was started in England as a hobby in late 1800. Dining table and balls of cork were used to play the game. Later, the game evolved a bit.

The International Table Tennis Association was formed in 1926. The game later entered Japan and other countries of Asia. In 1950`s and 1960`s Japanese conquered the game, but later Chinese and Koreans occupied the throne. In 1980`s table tennis was included in Olympics.

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Tuesday, March 17, 2009

The History Of Table Tennis

Like many other sports, table tennis began as a mild social diversion. Descending, along with lawn tennis and badminton, from the ancient medieval game of tennis. It was popular in England in the second half of the nineteenth century under its present name and various trade names such as Gossima and Whiff-Whaff. After the name Ping-Pong (an imitation of the sound made by the ball striking the table and the vellum bats that were used) was introduced by J. Jaques & Son, the game became a fashionable craze. There are many contemporary references to it and illustrations of it being played, usually in domestic surroundings.

By the early years of this century, Ping-Pong had already acquired some of its present day complexities, though it was still seen by many as an after -dinner amusement rather than a sport. An account published in 1903 found it necessary to warn against wearing a dress suit and stiff shirt-or, for ladies, a white satin gown-but went on to give detailed technical advice about pimpled rubber, the penholder grip and tactics.

The game was popular in Central Europe in 1905-10, and even before this is a modified version had been introduced to Japan , where it later spread to China and Korea.

After a period when it had dropped out of favor in Europe, the game was revived in England and Wales in the early twenties. by that time 'Ping-Pong' had been registered as a trademark, so the earlier name of table tennis was re-introduced. National associations were formed and standardization of the rules began, both in Europe and the Far East.

Then, over the next sixty years, table tennis developed into a major worldwide sport, played by perhaps thirty million competitive players and by uncountable millions who play less seriously. However, the game itself has not changed in essence since its earliest days, though it is faster, more subtle and more demanding than it was even only twenty years ago. a constant concern of the ITTF has always been to insure that table tennis remains a contest of human skills and that technological developments which add a new factor to the game do not give too great an advantage to the players who have the first opportunity of making use of them. Thus, equipment specifications are carefully laid down, and rigorously enforced.

Other changes-a lowering of the net, a rule to avoid protracted games between defensive players, and rules preventing excessive advantage being gained by the server-were introduced in the thirties and further minor changes are made from time to time. Changes to the rules of the sport can only be made only at the ITTF's Biennial General Meeting, and are never made without the agreement of a substantial majority of the hundred or so member Associations represented at the BGM, all of whom have an equal vote.

Modern table tennis at national and international level is a rigorous as any sport in its demands for the highest degree of physical fitness and mental concentration, attained only by arduous training to develop natural skill. Fred Perry, World Men's Singles Table Tennis Champion in 1928-29, later achieved even greater fame at Wimbledon; perhaps it would not be quite true to say that he moved to the larger court when his play became too slow for the table, but it is certainly true that no sport requires faster reactions and more delicate muscular co-ordination than table tennis.

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