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The World Championship of Ping Pong, also known as WCPP, is an annual ping pong tournament that has been held since 2011. The current champion is Andrew Baggaley , who beat Alexander Flemming in the 2020 final to beat Maxim Shmyrev 's record of winning three championships, and become the record-breaking four-time champion.
The annual U.S. Open is the oldest currently running table tennis tournament in the United States. [1] It attracts over 600 athletes annually. [2] The first events were actually run by either the New York Table Tennis Club or the American Ping Pong Association. The first USA Table Tennis (USTTA) [3] tournament was held in 1934.
The name "ping-pong" then came to describe the game played using the rather expensive Jaques's equipment, with other manufacturers calling it table tennis. A similar situation arose in the United States, where Jaques sold the rights to the "ping-pong" name to Parker Brothers .
The tournament used standardized sand paper covered paddles, as opposed to the paddles used in table tennis events that have rubber surfaces with optional sponge underneath for more spin and speed. This ping pong tournament was held from 4 January 2014 to 5 January 2014 at the Great Hall in Alexandra Palace .
The first international tournament was held in January 1926 in Berlin, and the first World Table Tennis Championships was held in December 1926 in London. [5] It was the only event for over 50 years that was run and managed commercially by the ITTF. In 1980, the ITTF World Cups was introduced, followed by the ITTF World Tour in 1996. Until 2003 ...
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This glossary defines terms related to the sport of table tennis.. Alternation of ends After each game, players switch sides of the table. In the last possible game of a match, for example the seventh game in a best of seven matches, players change ends when the first player scores five points, regardless of whose turn it is to serve.
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