{"id":213,"date":"2023-06-21T11:42:01","date_gmt":"2023-06-21T11:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/concordant-thought.com\/?p=213"},"modified":"2023-06-21T11:42:01","modified_gmt":"2023-06-21T11:42:01","slug":"who-invented-ping-pong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/concordant-thought.com\/who-invented-ping-pong\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Invented Ping Pong(Table Tennis)?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Who Invented Ping Pong?<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

The ping-pong, also known as\u00a0Table Tennis<\/strong>, is one of the most popular sports in China. However, its origin is not in the Asian country, but in the United Kingdom. He was born at the end of the 19th century, in Victorian times. Ping-pong emerged as a distraction for the high aristocracy after dinner at the tennis club.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is how ping-pong was born<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Originally, it tried to imitate the game of tennis in some way when rain or cold prevented the practice of this sport outside. A series of everyday items were used.<\/span><\/p>\n

The net consisted of a line of books, and a bell cork was used as a ball. As for the racket, it was simply the lid of a cigar box.<\/span><\/p>\n

This sport gradually became more and more popular among the\u00a0upper classes of England<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Over the years it received many names:\u00a0small tennis, lounge tennis, table tennis<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

The use of a champagne cork as a ball was discontinued, and a ball was made as such with celluloid.<\/span><\/p>\n

The reason for the name ping-pong is due to the characteristic noise that the ball made when bouncing.<\/span><\/p>\n

Already in the 20th century, a kind of racket was invented, fixing a rubber surface to the wooden blade.<\/span><\/p>\n

The popularity of this sport was increasing in the United States and Europe, to the point that an unofficial world championship was held in 1902.<\/span><\/p>\n