HISTORY TIMELINE OF

TABLE TENNIS
What is Table Tennis?

• Table tennis is a sport that involves two or four players. It is played on a table of dimensions around 2.74 m
(9.0 ft) x 1.525 m (5.0 ft) x 76 cm (2.5 ft) following the rules and regulations.

• The two other pieces of equipment are a lightweight plastic or celluloid ball of 40 mm diameters and a flat
racket for hitting the ball on the surface of the table
1880
It was started as after dinner game of upper –class inhabitants of
Victorian England.
They used the dinning table as a playing surface.
1901
James W. Gibb, a British enthusiast discovered celluloid Ping Pong Balls

E.C. Goode invented the modern version of the racket, combined with a
blade and rubber