General Awareness

TABLE TENNIS

Table Tennis, also known as Ping Pong, is a fast-paced indoor racket sport played between two players (singles) or two pairs (doubles). Players use small rackets to hit a lightweight ball back and forth across a table divided by a net.

Key Features

  • Players : Singles (1 vs 1) or Doubles (2 vs 2).
  • Playing Area : Rectangular table divided by a net.
  • Equipment : Table tennis table, racket (paddle), ball, and net.
  • Objective : Score points by making the ball land on the opponent's side in a way that cannot be returned legally.

Basic Rules

  1. 1A match is usually played as the best of 5 or 7 games.
  2. 2A game is won by the first player/team to reach 11 points with at least a 2-point lead.
  3. 3Players alternate serves every two points.
  4. 4The ball must bounce once on the server's side and then on the receiver's side during a serve.
  5. 5A point is scored when the opponent fails to make a valid return.

TheTable Tennis also known as Ping – pong, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball back and forth across a table using small bats.

The game takes on a hard table divided by a net.

Trophies

  1. 1Uthant Cup
  2. 2Corbilition Cup
  3. 3Bama Belleck Cup
  4. 4Jayalaxmi Cup
  5. 5Travencore Cup
  6. 6Swathling Cup (Men)

Related Terms

  1. 1Smash
  2. 2Drop
  3. 3Duece
  4. 4Spin
  5. 5Let
  6. 6Service
  7. 7Hit
  8. 8Loop
  9. 9Flip
  10. 10Push
  11. 11Chop
  12. 12Block
  13. 13Lob

Famous Table Tennis Players

  1. 1Achanta Sharatha Kamal (India)
  2. 2Mouma Das (India)
  3. 3Chetan Babur (India)
  4. 4Poulomi Ghatak (India)