Table Tennis History and other facts! By: Emora Baggett Over 0 million players participate in table tennis tournaments around the world. Table tennis is globally the most popular racket sport
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Tournaments Like other sports, table tennis has tournaments. Teams from all over Saskatchewan come to these tournaments. Keep in mind that these aren’t professional tournaments that I am explaining, these are just the ones I am used to going to. When you get there, we usually help set up and wait for everyone to arrive. Once all the teams are there, the organizers will call groups of three at random. If your name gets called then you go to the selected table to meet your group. This group is called a round robin. In the round robin you decide which two players will participate first, the other player will score keep. After all three players have competed, you will take the recorded score to the judges. This is when you will be placed into the A, B or C category. If you won all the games you will be in the A category. If you won one game and lost one game, then you will be in the B category. If you lost both of your games, then you will be in the C category. For the rest of the tournament you will be in this category. You will continue to play people and give the recorded score to the judges. At the end of the tournament if you won enough games you will get a medal. History of Table Tennis History Table tennis originally came from England in the 1880s. It was made by Englishman David Foster. Table Tennis was used as a substitute for lawn tennis when it was too cold in the winter. It caught on as a game you could play for people who didn’t have a big lawn to play tennis in the summer. In 1901 the ping pong association was formed. This sport continued to be played in only England but by 1920s it was being played all around the world. By that time table tennis started to be taken more seriously as a sport. In 1921-1922 ping pong got its official name table tennis. Then, the first ever table tennis championship was held in London in 1926. Lastly, in 1988 table tennis became an olympics sport with singles and doubles. Table tennis continues to be enjoyed all around the world, both for fun, and competitive. How I got started I started playing table tennis regularly in the year of 2017. I remember the first time I ever played table tennis. Sheena Koops, one of my coaches and my auntie, set up a time to introduce some kids to table tennis. I remember we did exercises like: bouncing a ping pong ball up and down on your racket, hitting a balloon with your racket and blowing a ping pong ball across the table to improve your hand eye coordination. I do not exactly know what year this was, but it was much earlier than 2017. After that table tennis practice I didn’t start playing, but my older cousins and siblings did. It was 2017 when I started going to the practices. Then in 2018 I was in my first tournament. The tournament was in Fort Qu'appelle Elementary Community School, that is the school I go to. I didn’t win any metals but it was very fun. Later that year I won my first metal in Carry the Kettle, it was a bronze medal in the C category. |