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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%.
Founded in 1926, the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF), is the governing body for all national table tennis associations. The present graphic visualization keeps track of all the results achieved by the best ITTF associations in almost one hundred years of competitions.
China has been the most successful nation in Olympic table tennis, winning 66 medals (37 gold, 21 silver, and 8 bronze). Since 1992, Chinese players have won at least one medal in every event. At the 2008 Games, China achieved an unprecedented medal sweep in both the men's and women's singles tournaments, [ 6 ] and won both team tournaments.
USATT Historian Tim Boggan has written a volume of books entitled “History of U.S. Table Tennis” to give the readers a brief overview of how the sport of table tennis came to be. There are a total of 19 books in the series. Table tennis was initially considered an alternative to lawn tennis at parties and events.
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Bernard Hock was born August 12, 1912, in Wills Township, LaPorte County, Indiana, the fifth of Mary Agnes (née Nawroski) and Frank William Hock's seven children.Hock was a graduate of New Albany High School and a long-time resident at 808 Cedar Bough Place in New Albany's Cedar Bough Place Historic District, one of the earliest private streets in the United States.
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The phrase "Table Tennis" was created because the name "Ping Pong" had already been trademarked by Parker Brothers. [7] Though the legal name of the USATT remains the "United States Table Tennis Association, Inc.", the non-profit corporation adopted "USA Table Tennis" as their d/b/a name effective 1994. [8]