The game was

invented in
England in
the early days
of the 20th
century and was
originally
called
Ping-
N
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in the
game
1880s
began
,
Y when lawn tennis
E players
their
adapted
game to
S play
during
indoors
the
The name “Ping-
Pong” was invented
J.
by the English firm
Jaques and Son
at the end of the 1800s

and later
trademarked in the
United States by
Parker
Brothers, the
The name table tennis was
adopted in 1921–22
The original association
had broken up about 1905,
though apparently the
game continued to be
played in parts of
England outside London
and by the 1920s was
being played in many
countries (Germany,
The Fédération
Internationale de
Tennis de Table
(International
Table Tennis
Federation) was

founded in 1926 , the

founding members being
England, Sweden, Hungary,
India, Denmark, Germany,
Czechoslovakia, Austria,
 The first world
championships were held in
1927 and was won by a
Hungarian,
Dr. Jacobi.
 The first world
championships were held in

London in 1926, and

from then until 1939 the
game was dominated by
players from central
Europe.
Table tennis became an Olympic sport in

1988, with singles and doubles competition for

men and women.
The 1950s saw the
game turned upside
down by the
invention of the
sponge or sandwich The thickness of
rubber, this new the sponge and
material for bats, rubber sandwich was
which, up until controlled and
now, had been a remains so to this
relatively simple day. But the nature
affair with a of the game had
universal thin been changed,
covering of pimpled establishing the
rubber (introduced fast attacking
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