Table Tennis Or Ping Pong Introduction (안전놀이터)
Table tennis, also known as ping-pong and whiff-whaff, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball, also known as the ping-pong ball, back and forth across a table using small rackets. The game takes place on a hard table divided by a net. A brief history of table tennis Table tennis can be traced back to Victorian England, as a form of after-dinner amusement for upper class Victorians in the 1880s. Everyday objects were used; books as a net, a knot of string as a ball and a cigar box lid as the bat. The popularity of the pastime led game manufacturers to sell the equipment commercially. The sound generated in play was what gave the sport its name "ping pong" and this was used by some manufacturers of equipment at the time. Around the turn of the 20th century celluloid balls or paddles were introduced to the game, and by 1927, London held the first ever official world championships. Table tennis was granted Olympic sport status in 1988. The sport is now sp...