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Table tennis is unique among racket sports in that it supports a wide variety of playing styles and methods of gripping the racket, at even the highest levels of play. This article describes some of the most common table tennis grips and playing styles seen in competitive play. The playing styles listed in this article are broad categories with ...
Diagram of a table tennis table showing the official dimensions. The table is 2.74 m (9.0 ft) long, 1.525 m (5.0 ft) wide, and 76 cm (2.5 ft) high with any continuous material so long as the table yields a uniform bounce of about 23 cm (9.1 in) when a standard ball is dropped onto it from a height of 30 cm (11.8 in), or about 77%.
Dimitrij Ovtcharov (Russian: Дмитрий Овчаров) or Dmytro Ovtcharov (Ukrainian: Дмитро Овчаров; born 2 September 1988) is a Ukrainian-born German table tennis player. [6] His father Mikhail (or Mikhaylo), a Soviet table tennis champion in 1982, moved his family to Germany shortly after Dimitrij was born.
Panagiotis Gionis qualified for the 2017 World Table Tennis Championships seeded at Number 29. In the first round and second round he faced and defeated North Korea's Choe Il (4–2) and Slovakia's Wang Yang (4–3) respectively. Gionis was ultimately defeated in the third round by Number 12 seed, Vladimir Samsonov, (0–4).
From 1972 to 1982 she won several medals in singles, doubles, and team events in the Table Tennis European Championships and in the World Table Tennis Championships [1] She was ranked number one in England during the early 1970s.
Bernadette Cynthia Szőcs (Hungarian: Szőcs Bernadette Cynthia; born 5 March 1995) is a professional table tennis player from Romania. [1] [5]She is the incumbent European games champion in women's singles and a three time Olympian, having participated in 2016, 2020 and 2024 editions of summer Olympics.
Lin trained in China along with members of the Chinese national team and other selected foreigners from late 2020 until early 2021. [14] His first international event was WTT Contender at World Table Tennis' inaugural event WTT Doha, where he reached the finals after defeating Quadri Aruna in the quarter-finals and Simon Gauzy in the semi-finals [15] before being upset by Dimitrij Ovtcharov in ...
He became the national champion in the men's singles and men's doubles at the English National Table Tennis Championships. [4] [1] In 2022, he was selected for the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham where he competed in three events; the men's doubles, the mixed doubles and the men's team events. [2] [3]