Table Tennis

            Table tennis, is miniature version of tennis and also goes by name of Ping Pong is a sport that involves two or four players  to hit a lightweight ball back and forth using a table tennis racket (paddle). To play Table Tennis , a hard table surface is use and is divided up with net, it can played in singles or in doubles. Players must allow a ball played toward them only one bounce on their side of the table and must return it so that it bounces on the opposite side. Points are scored when a player fails to return the ball within the rules.

           Table tennis is governed by the worldwide organization International Table Tennis Federation, founded in 1926. ITTF currently includes 218 member associations. The table tennis official rules are specified in the ITTF handbook. Ping Pong is also a sport that takes place at the Summer Olympic games, in particular, from 1988 until 2004, these were: men's singles, women's singles, men's doubles and women's doubles. Since 2008, a team event has been played instead of the doubles.

           Some of the best player are:

• Ma Long
• Timo Boll
• Jan-Ove Waldner
• Zhang Jike
• Wang Hao
• Werner Schlager

   
        Something you may not know is the history of Table Tennis (or Ping Pong which is commonly used) is a long and interesting sequence of events, which would require a book to do it justice. 

It all started in England towards the end of the 19th century when, after dinner, some upper-middle class Victorians decided to turn their dining room tables into miniature versions of the traditional lawn tennis playing field. 

      They used different every-day objects to play the sport. They used a line of books as the net. Rackets were lids from empty cigar boxes, and a little later, parchment paper stretched around a frame. The ball would be either a ball of string, or perhaps more commonly, a champagne cork or rubber ball.