Who invented ping ping

Who invented table tennis is impossible to tell. However, it is believed that its birthplace may have been the United Kingdom. At first, you may just play around on the dining table with very rough equipment.

It was not until 1900, when the invention of plastic table tennis replaced the gum and cork balls commonly used at the time, that the game gradually became popular in Britain and Europe. Early production equipment was called gossimar, whiff-whaff (imitation of the sound of a racket rubbing against air) or commonly known ping-pong (from which the Chinese "ping pong" is presumably derived), the latter of which is said to have been registered as a patent trademark (see image below). In 1926 the five countries met in Berlin, which resulted in the establishment of the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF).

The ITTF now has 140 member countries and holds the World Championships every two years. Before 1960, world titles were almost exclusively won by players from Hungary, France and Sweden. In the early 1960s, Japan emerged as a leader in table tennis in the world.

But from the mid-1960s to the 1980s, China regularly won championships, with Japan, Sweden and some Eastern European countries winning only intermittently.

One or two championship titles. In 1978, the famous "ping-pong diplomacy" between China and the United States brought this movement to the stage of history. China's absolute dominance in table tennis was broken by South Korean and Swedish players in the late 1980s, when table tennis became an Olympic sport.

The birth of table tennis was purely accidental. It was caused by two British youths playing. At the end of the 19th century, two young men in London went to a restaurant one day, and while waiting for the waiter to deliver their meal, they got bored, so they took the lid of the cigar box in their hands and played with it, and at the same time removed the cork from the wine bottle.

As a result, this table game soon evolved into a table tennis tournament that swept through London, forming a table tennis craze for a while. In 1926, the first World Table Tennis Championships were held in London in honor of the country of inventors. In the early days, when people played table tennis, they mostly liked to put a layer of leather or cork on the wooden cricket racket.

The rubber racket was first invented and used by the Englishman Goode. One day, after playing the ball, Goode went to the pharmacy on his way home to buy medicine, and when the pharmacy owner threw him the changed he had recovered, the coins landed on the rubber plate and bounced. Goode's eyes lit up, so he bought a rubber plate from the pharmacy owner, installed it on his racket, and carefully reformed his original racket.

Later, Goode competed with the world's first glued paddle and calmly defeated all his opponents. Since then, rubber rackets have been publicly available. In the history of sports, table tennis can be regarded as a young sport, it is only more than 100 years old, compared to athletics (more than 2,000 years), it can be regarded as a veritable descendant.