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Table tennis racket Also known as a paddle or bat, is used by table tennis players. The table tennis racket is usually made from laminated wood covered with rubber on one or two sides depending on the player's grip. The USA generally uses the term "paddle" while Europeans and Asians use the term "bat" and the official ITTF term is "racket". [17]
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%.
He is one of seven table tennis players to have competed in the first five Olympics since the sport was introduced to the Games in 1988. The others are Swede Jörgen Persson , Croatian Zoran Primorac , Belgian Jean-Michel Saive , Hungarian Csilla Bátorfi , Serbian-American Ilija Lupulesku , and Swede Jan-Ove Waldner .
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 ...
Table tennis player Zeng Zhiying left China all alone for an adventure in Chile in 1989. As her native country boiled with street protests that led to the Tiananmen Square massacre that year, she ...
Alexis Lebrun discovered table tennis when he was three years old. His father Stephane Lebrun was a number 7 table tennis player of France and doubles champion of France. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] His uncle Christophe Legoût is a former member of French national team, and Alexis' younger brother Félix Lebrun is also a table tennis player.
By age 12, Zhang became the youngest player to ever make the U.S. Women's Team, and when she was 13 years old, she was the #2 ranked Junior Woman table tennis player in the United States. [ 13 ] At the 2010 and 2011 U.S. National Championships, Zhang won the title in the junior girls' event and was the runner-up in women's singles.
Adam Bobrow (born February 14, 1981), [3] also known as Snakeman [4] and The Voice of Table Tennis, [5] is an American sports commentator, YouTuber, actor, and table tennis player. He operates a YouTube channel dedicated to table tennis enthusiasts and fans, providing them with content to promote the sport.