Table Tennis

History

Practical general

Q Who is the father of table tennis?

Ans Ivor Montagu (1904-1984)

Q What are the old names of Table Tennis?

Ans Whiff Whaff, Flip Flap, Gossimia, Ping pong is the most famous
and common among all names.

Q When International Table Tennis Federation ITTF was formed?

Ans It was formed in 1926, currently 226 member associations in the
world.

Q When the first official rule book was published for Table tennis?
Ans In 1927 first rule book was published. Recently 47th edition was
published in 2019

Q Where is the origin of table tennis and how it was originated?

Ans England British Victorian family use to mimic tennis game on their
dining table after having the dinner. They use dining table as a
surface, books as a net, cork of alcohol bottle as ball and cigar box
as racket.

Q Who invented Celluloid ball?

Ans James W. Gibb 1901
Q Who invented the modern version of Racquet?
Ans E.C Goode in 1901

Q When the first world championship of Table Tennis was held?

Ans 1926 london

Q When table tennis was include in Olympics?

Ans 1988 Seoul olympics (men’s single, women’s single, men’s double,
women’s double), since 2008 a team event has been played stead
of the doubles).

Q Who hits the world fastest smash in table tennis?

Ans Lark Brandt 69.9 miles per hours

Q How many rules are there in table tennis?

Ans There are officially 15 rules.
1. The Table 2.The Net Assembly 3.The Ball 4. The Racquet
5. Definition
6. The Service 7.The Return 8.The Order of Play 9. A Let
10. A Point
11. A Game 12. A Match 13. The Order of Serving,
Receiving and Ends
14. Out of order of Serving, Receiving or Ends 15. The
Expedite System)

The Table
Q. What is the length and width of Table? (Rectangular shape)
Ans 2.74m long and 1.525 m wide and 76cm above the floor.

Q. How we will test quality and standard of table?

Ans A ball is dropped on a table from a height of 30cm and it bounce
back 23cm.
Q What is the color of table?
Ans Blue or Green, but it shall be uniformly dark coloured and matt,
but with a white

Q what is the thickness of side line and centre line?

Ans Side line 2cm, and center line 3mm in white color.

Q What is the material of table used in table tennis?

Ans Plywood and it might be painted or having a plastic layer on top.

Q How much light required for Table tennis match?

Ans 200 – 250 lux

The Net Assembly

Q What is the height and length of net?
Ans Height of net 15.25cm, outside limits of net 15.25cm, Total length
of net 6ft black color

Q What is the meshes size of net of table tennis?

Ans The mesh should not be less than 7.5mm square or more than
12.5mm square. 1cm square ± 2.5mm

Q What is the size of upper border of net?

Ans 1.25mm

The Ball
Q What is the shape of ball used in table tennis?
Ans Spherical

Q What is the diameter of ball used in table tennis?

Ans 40 mm

Q What is the weight of ball used in table tennis?

Ans 2.7grams

Q What type of material is used for the construction of ball used in

table tennis?
Ans Celluloid or similar plastic material and shall be white or orange
and matt.

The Racket
Q What are the parts of Table tennis racket?
Ans Blade and handle. 85 percent of blade by thickness shall be
natural wood. Adhesive layer within the blade may be reinforced
with fibrous material such as carbon fiber, glass fiber or
compressed paper, but shall not be thicker than 7.5 percent of the
total thickness or 0.35, whichever is the smaller. Spongy layer,
pimpled sheet, glue.

Q What is the length, width and thickness of blade of racket?

Ans Length 157mm, width 150mm, thickness 5.8mm

Q What is thickness of pimples and density of pimples?

Ans 2mm, or sandwich rubber with pimples inwards or outwards
4mm, Density 10 per sq cm or 30 per sq cm.

Q What is the length and width of racket of table tennis?

Ans length 100mm, width 34mm

Q what is ordinary pimpled rubber and sandwich rubber?

Ans Ordinary pimpled rubber is a single layer of non-cellular rubber,
natural or synthetic, with pimples evenly distributed over its
surface at a density of not less than 10 per cm square and not
more than 30 per cm square.
 Sandwich rubber is a single layer of cellular covered with a single
outer layer of ordinary pimpled rubber, the thickness of the
pimpled rubber not being more than 2.0mm.

Q What type of common woods is used in table tennis racquet?

Ans Balsa, Limba, and cypress or hinoki

Q What are the different gripping styles use to grip table tennis
racquet?
Ans Pen hold and Shake hand
zQ Who is current world Olympic champion in table tennis?
Ans China in men’s single (Ma long),
China in women’s single (Ding Ning),
China in Men’s Team (Ma long and Xu Xin, Zhang Jike),
China in Women’s Team (Liu Shiwen, Ding Ning and Li Xiaoxia),
China in Mixed double (Xu Xin and Li