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Chinese Li Ju, Olympic doubles champion and singles runner-up in 2000. Table tennis is among the sports contested at the Summer Olympic Games.It was introduced at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea, where singles and doubles tournaments were held for both genders. [1]
This list of table tennis players is alphabetically ordered by surname. The main source of the information included in this page is the official International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) database. More detailed information about their careers is available in the individual players' articles, and in the ITTF database.
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 .
Year Host City Gold Silver Bronze 1926: London: Roland Jacobi: Zoltán Mechlovits: Munio Pillinger: S.R.G. Suppiah: 1928: Stockholm: Zoltán Mechlovits: Laszlo Bellak
Outside Southeast Asia, Gonzales has represented the Philippines at the 2014 World Championship of Ping Pong winning bronze after bowing out to Maxim Shmyrev in the semifinal. [ 2 ] [ 7 ] Gonzales along with Ian Lariba were the Philippines' representatives at the 2014 World Team Table Tennis Championships .
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.
Xu Xin (simplified Chinese: 许昕; traditional Chinese: 許昕; pinyin: Xǔ Xīn; born 8 January 1990) is a Chinese professional table tennis player. He first reached his career-high singles ranking of world No. 1 by the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) in January 2013.
Ping Pong Table tennis: Parker Brothers: Originally trademarked by Jaques and Son, was later passed to Parker Bros. A number of U.S. organizations nowadays are required to refer its sport as table tennis as means of trademark protection. [167] [168] Plasticine: Modelling clay: Flair Leisure Products plc