Racket started from a long-handled racket with parchment on both sides and hollowed out in the middle, and evolved into a polished short-handled racket and a racket made of cork or sandpaper. Subsequently, rubber rackets, sponge rackets, forward and reverse sponge rackets, long rubber rackets, reverse sponge rubber rackets and "elastic glue" were invented one after another. At present, players use a special rubber with teeth, which covers the surface of sponge from top to bottom and sticks to wooden or carbon rackets.
The scoring method has gradually changed from the early 10, 20, 50, 100 to 2 1 1. In 2003, the 47th World Table Tennis Championships officially started to use the game of 1 1.
The early table tennis table was small, the net was high and the specifications were not uniform. 1936 or so, changed to the current specification. There are four major table tennis events in the world: Olympic Table Tennis Tournament, World Table Tennis Championships, World Cup Table Tennis Tournament and ITTF Professional Tour.
The World Table Tennis Championships is the largest, the highest level and the largest number of participants among the four world table tennis events, and it is also the only competition that includes all seven awards. At present, team competitions are held every two years, and individual competitions are held five times a year. So far, 48 competitions have been held. Each project has a special trophy, which comes from many countries and is named after the name of the donor.
Nowadays, table tennis has developed into a competitive sport with high technology, high speed and strong rotation, and nearly 40 million people all over the world are engaged in this sport.
Table tennis is in China.
China table tennis is recognized as the "national sport" of China in the world.
China's table tennis was imported from Japan. At the beginning of the 20th century, shortly after the Meiji Restoration in Japan, many Japanese enterprises set up commercial organizations in coastal cities of China to sell a lot of goods to the China market. Therefore, table tennis was introduced to China along with business contacts and frequent exchanges between Japanese industrial and commercial circles.
1904 The manager of a stationery store in Sima Road, Shanghai bought 10 sets of table tennis equipment (table, net, ball and racket with holes) from Japan, put them in the store, and personally performed table tennis, introducing the situation of playing table tennis in Japan. From then on, table tennis began to rise in China.
19 16 The Children's Department of the YMCA of Shanghai added a table tennis room and table tennis table to carry out table tennis among students. Later, the movement was also carried out in several big cities such as Beijing, Tianjin and Guangzhou.
From 65438 to 0925, China and Japan started the exchange of table tennis.
1927, the Japanese team went to China for an away game. In August of the same year, I participated in the China-Japan Table Tennis Exhibition in the 8th Far East Games held in Shanghai.
1935, ITTF called to invite China to join ITTF and participate in the 9th World Table Tennis Championships, but no funds were available.
1952, the first national competition was held in Peking University. After the game, the national table tennis team began intensive training. In the same year, the Table Tennis Department of the All-China Sports Federation joined the International Table Tennis Federation and was later renamed the China Table Tennis Association.
On April 5th, 1959, Rong Guotuan won the first men's singles world championship for China at the 25th World Table Tennis Championships.
1961April, China Table Tennis Association hosted the 26th World Table Tennis Championships, which was the first world championship in the history of China.
Since Rong Guotuan 1959 won the first world championship, the China table tennis team has won more than 100 world championships for the motherland in the past 50 years, winning all the gold medals in the four World Championships and the two Olympic Games, creating an immortal history that is rare in the world sports world.
65438-0988 At the 24th Seoul Olympic Games, China won the women's singles (Chen Jing) and men's doubles (Chen Longcan/Wei), tied with the host South Korea, and occupied 2/5 of the gold medals of the entire China delegation.
Since 1988 Seoul Olympic Games table tennis first became an official event, China almost completely monopolized the gold medal in this event. Among them, 9 women's gold medals have been won in 10 and 7 men's gold medals in 10. Table tennis has become the dominant event of China sports delegation.
Table tennis has formed a virtuous circle of popularization-improvement-popularization-improvement in China. According to statistics, at present, the population who often plays table tennis in China is about 6.5438+million. In today's reform and opening up, in order to improve the physical quality of the whole nation and further inspire the national spirit, table tennis has become more fashionable in China in the wave of actively implementing the national fitness plan, and more and more people take part in table tennis after school, after work and on rest days.