Table Tennis

No sorry football was not around in ancient Rome. :( However many forms of sports we have today did exist

From a flat open palm, the ball must be tossed 6in in the air. After reaching 6in, the ball must be struck while above the surface, strike your side of the table and then strike your opponent's side of the table.

although you do you a table tennis ball for beer pong there is still difference in sizes and quality. You can use whatever size you want but a tournament size beer pong ball is a 40mm. Compared to a 38mm or other size ball

1. Preliminary matches are usually the best of 3 or 5 games. CHAMPIONSHIP matches are often the best of 7 or 9 games.
2. After deciding the serve, each player will serve TWO points each.
3. If a player serves a net ball (called a 'let serve'), the point is replayed. (There are no limits to the number of let serves a player may serve.)
4. The server in singles can serve anywhere: short, long, straight, or cross-court. Only in doubles do you have to serve diagonally from your right court to the opponent's right court.
5. If you volley the ball while it is still above the table surface, you lose the point.
6. If you move the table, or touch it with your free hand, during the rally, you lose the point.
7. If a you or your clothing touches the net or post during the rally, you lose the point.
8. If you hit the ball twice in succession, you lose the point.
9. If your shot hits a wall, the ceiling, or misses the opponent's side of the table, you lose the point.
10. Change ends of the table after each game.
11. The player who serves at the beginning of a game is the receiver at the beginning of the next game.
12. After the first player scores the 5th point in the final game of the match, change ends. If you forgot to change at 5, then change as soon as you realize it.
13. If your opponent distracts you by talking or yelling while the ball is in play, play a let.
14. At 10-10, the score is called "Deuce". A player must then win by 2 points. Alternate serves until one player has a 2-point lead.
15. Games are played to 11 point (NOT 21).
16. Shake hands after every match to show good sportsmanship.

The Chinese have long been good at the sport of Ping-Pong. It could be that the government focuses more on training ping-pong athletes than athletes in sports that the Chinese are traditionally not good at.

The game of table tennis has its roots in lawn tennis.

When lawn tennis became very popular in the 1870s & 1880s, game makers tried to emulate its' success by developing indoor versions of the game.

David Foster of England introduced the first action game of tennis on a table in 1890.

Table Tennis does not have line judges.

The top official is the Tournament Referee.

The role of a tournament referee differs widely from one Association to another and from one tournament to another.

At one extreme he or she is involved in every part of the organisation, from drafting the entry form to arranging the finals.

At the other extreme, the referee appears only on the day of the tournament solely to decide any question of rule interpretation.

For each match there is an umpire, whose primary duty is to decide the result of each rally.

He is also required to exercise judgment in applying some laws and regulations, such as deciding whether a rally should be a let because a player's service or return may have been affected by circumstances outside the player's control, or whether a player's behaviour is acceptable.

An assistant umpire is solely responsible for decisions on edge balls at the side of the table nearest to him, and he has the same power as the umpire to decide the legality of a player's service action, whether a player obstructs the ball and some of the conditions for a let.

There are 218 countries that play table tennis and are members of the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) in 2013.

The ITTF groups the countries into 6 continents...

There are 48 in Africa, 45 in Asia, 58 in Europe, 40 in Latin America, 3 in North America and 24 in Oceania.

(North America consists of USA, Canada and Bermuda)

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Table tennis rackets can be purchased from multiple locations either online of offline. Walmart, Target, or Dicks Sporting Goods are examples of retailers which hold both an offline and online presence where a table tennis racket can be purchased.

A table tennis table created to fold and store upright must have an undercarriage to support the center and other end as you lift one end to fold it up. Otherwise, the half are made to pull apart so the legs can be folded underneath.

Each game is played up to 11 points.

Matches are usually the best of 3, 5 or 7 games.

Depending on the standard of the players, a single match can last from about 15 minutes up to approximately one hour.

During history, tennis had many changes. Historical researches say that tennis was played in ancient Greece. In 12th century in France was popular game called "Paume". In 19th century major Walter Wingfield invented a version of Real Tennis that can be played outdoors on a lawn. That was a birth of modern tennis game.

Table tennis began in England as an after dinner activity for upper class Victorians in the 1880s. Common objects were used to act as the equipment. A line of books would be the net, a rounded top of a Champagne cork or knot of string as the ball, and a cigar box lid as the paddle. Click on the questions found under the 'Related Questions' heading on this page to learn more.

If the ball hit you before it bounced then it is the other person's point because it technically never landed outside of the court. However, if it bounced, then you called it out, and then it hit you, it is your point because you called it out.

Each game is won by the player scoring eleven points unless the score is ten each, when one player has to win by two clear points. Service is changed every two points. A match normally consists of five games but any odd number would suffice.

The world ranking for table tennis are issued each month, so the number one player in the world can change each month.

In February 2013 the number one male player was Xu Xin of China, and the number one female player was Ding Ning of China.

This depends upon what liquid you are placing the baseball in to.

When the volume of liquid displaced by putting the object into it is less than the weight of whatever you put in, it will float.

So, if a baseball weighs 300g and it is in water, and it displaces 400g of water (because of the baseballs volume), then it will float.

The game of table tennis has its roots in lawn tennis.

When lawn tennis became very popular in the 1870s & 1880s, game makers tried to emulate its success by developing indoor versions of the game.

So there were card games, board & dice games, rackets & balloon games and even tiddledy winks tennis games.

But the first use of the name Table Tennis occurred on a board and dice game by J.H.Singer of New York around 1884 and it's also known that a game of Table Tennis was offered in the 1887 game catalogue of George S. Parker, founder of the famed Parker Brothers in America.

But the first action game of tennis on a table was in 1890, so it was David Foster of England who is the founder/inventor of table tennis in 1890.

According to the rules of the International Tennis Federation (ITF):

"When dropped onto a concrete base from 100 inches, the ball should bounce more than 53 inches but less than 58 inches."

Volume formula: 4/3 x pi x r ^3

Volume of the table tennis ball = 4/3 x 3.1416 x (2 cm)^3

= 33.5 cm^3

= 33.5 mL

You can hit the ball with either side of the racket (paddle) as long as it has an authorised covering on it.

Also, one side must be red and the other side black.

If a side does not have an authorised covering, but is painted red or black instead, you cannot use that side to hit the ball.

One can purchase a table for the foyer from the following places: Houzz, Wayfair, Worldmarket, Amazon, Bellacor, Carnadian woodcraft, Overstock, Bed Bath and Beyond, eBay, Little Green Notebook, to name a few. Prices start from $89.