Tennis de table et ping pong virtuel dans le 20e (2024)

FAQs

Is it table tennis or ping pong? ›

The correct title for the sport in the UK and most of the rest of the world is "table tennis". This is because "ping pong" is a trade mark, number 233177, registered by the London toy importers and manufacturers Hamley Brothers on 20 September 1900 for their version of table tennis manufactured by John Jaques & Son.

A game in table tennis is played until one of the players scores 11 points or if there is a 2 point difference after the score was tied (10:10). A game used to be played until 21, but that rule was changed by the ITTF in 2001.

The first to 11 points is declared the winner. If the points are tied at 10-10, a player then has to strive for a two-point lead to win the game. A match is won by winning games.

Table tennis (also known as ping-pong or whiff-whaff) is a racket sport derived from tennis but distinguished by its playing surface being atop a stationary table, rather than the court on which players stand.

Though it is excluded from official terminology, this name is very popular today. It notably originates from the onomatopoeic sound of the ball that appeared in the Far East in 1884: 'ping' is imitative of the sound of a bat striking a ball and 'pong' equates to the sound of the bounce on the table.

If both players have won 20 points, then the first player to get a 2 point lead wins the game.

A point is scored after each ball is put into play. The edges of the table are part of the legal table surface, but not the sides. Each player serves two points in a row and then switch server. However, if a score of 10-10 is reached in any game, then each server serves only one point and then the server is switched.

The ITTF rules says that a match can be any uneven number of sets. A lot of International matches are played best of 7 games where you need to win 4 to win.

Table tennis is a game played inside by two or four people. The players stand at each end of a table which has a low net across the middle and hit a small light ball over the net, using small bats.

An informal rule in table tennis that says that a player wins a game at a score of 7-0 or 11-1. The offensive trump card is the smash. A player will typically execute a smash when the opponent has returned a ball that bounces too high or too close to the net.

What is love in table tennis? ›

Love – A term used in tennis instead of the word 'nil' or 'zero'. It is used to describe a lack of score in either points, games or sets. i.e. a game score of 30-0 is given as '30 love' and a set score of 6-0 is given as 'six love'. Straight Sets – The name given to a win in a tennis match without losing a set.

In modern times, it seems that our sport has split into two camps—the recreational players who tend to use the phrase ping-pong and table tennis interchangeably and treat it as a game or past-time, and the serious players who call it table tennis almost exclusively and view it as a sport.

People began to call the sport by that same distinct sound, and variants of the game's name started to sprout up, including whiff-whaff, pom-pom, clip-clap and ping-pong. As the game became ubiquitous, two names prevailed: table tennis and ping-pong.

The Ablaut Reduplication Rule

In the English language, the key vowel determines the word order. If there are three words, then the order must go I, A, O. If there are two words, then the first is I and the second is either A or O. Mish-mash, chit-chat, tic tock, King Kong, ping pong.

Pīngpāng qiú (Chinese: 乒乓球) is the official name for the sport of table tennis in China. Table tennis in China is regulated by the Chinese Table Tennis Association.