Parman, Mark Kevin L.

ENGL12 B

“Ping Pong”

What is ping pong? Ping pong is also known as Table tennis, it is an indoor sports

game in which players played with small paddles or rackets hitting a lightweight ball across

the table divided by net. This essay shows the evolution of table tennis and how became one

of the most renowned sports in human history.

Table tennis is popular all over the world especially in Europe and Asia. This sport

started in Victorian, England, where it was played among the high society as an after-dinner

parlor game (Hodges, Larry). This high society diversion was brought into the British

military in India around the 1860s and afterward brought back with new thoughts. Heaped up

books on a table made a net, and a book in the hand turned into an oar. The ball was typically

a golf ball (A Comprehensive History of Table Tennis). As the amusement was played

increasingly more in family units, a few people saw a business thought in it.

Beginning from 1901, ping pong or table tennis was trademarked and fabricated by

British organization J. Jaques and Son (Jaques London). The set was costly and implied for

the high society. It had oars, balls, and a net, yet tables were not yet being made explicitly for

the diversion. In spite of the fact that the diversion was all the while being played on

alternative surfaces, when James W. Gibb, a table tennis fan, visited America in 1901, he

happened upon another thought for the ball. Likewise in 1901, E.C. Goode made the

advanced table tennis racket by planting elastic over a wooden edge. With these snappy

improvements, competitions began being played, volumes were being expounded on the
diversion, and the main big showdown of table tennis was in 1902 (A Comprehensive History

of Table Tennis).

Table tennis developed to more noteworthy statures of notoriety with these rivalries

and better hardware. Individuals started to regard the amusement more as a game and

something genuine to play. By 1921, the main authority association for the diversion was

made called the Table Tennis Association. In any case, in 1926, it changed its name to the

English Table Tennis Association—presumably to enable different nations to make their own

affiliations. Around the same time, The International Table Tennis Federation was

established.

With these associations appearing, it appeared the time had come to have an official

big showdown for the diversion. After the achievement of the principal official big

showdown, the game moved to the US. By 1933, the United States Table Tennis Association

was started.

The last improvement in the amusement that brought it into present-day times was the

formation of the fundamental wipe layer underneath the elastic sheet of the oar. This made

the amusement quicker and presented many turning methods. Indeed, even «speed glue» was

added to expand the speed and turn that could be made from the oar. At last, with the

diversion so revered and created, it turns into an Olympic game in 1988. Beginning from an

easy going amusement in privileged homes of Victorian England, table tennis has turned into

an Olympic game and a dearest round of millions.

 After the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, the ITTF founded a few guideline changes that

were gone for making table tennis progressively suitable as a broadcast observer sport

(Clamett Colin). A couple of months after the fact, the ITTF transformed from a 21-point to

an 11-point scoring framework, compelling in September 2001 (A Comprehensive History of

Table Tennis). This was expected to make diversions all the more quickly paced and

energizing. The ITTF states that all occasions after July 2014 are played with another poly

material ball (Board of Directors Meeting).

In spite of the fact that the diversion was all the while being played on alternative

surfaces, when James W. Gibb, a table tennis fan, visited America in 1901, ping pong or

table tennis was trademarked and fabricated by British organization J. Table tennis

developed to more noteworthy statures of notoriety with these rivalries and better

hardware. Goode made the advanced table tennis racket by planting elastic over a

wooden edge. In any case, in 1926, it changed its name to the English Table Tennis

Association—presumably to enable different nations to make their own

affiliations. By 1933, the United States Table Tennis Associat ion was

started. Around the same time, The International Table Tennis Federation was

established. Gibb, a table tennis fan, visited America in 1901, he happened upon

another thought for the ball.

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