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    1. Table tennis originated in Victorian England in the late 19th century when British army officers in India and South Africa improvised games using cigar box lids, corks, and books. 2. The sport grew popular among the upper classes in England in the 1880s and manufacturers began producing dedicated equipment, with "Ping Pong" and "table tennis" being used interchangeably for the game. 3. In the early 20th century, organizations were formed to regulate the sport and the first world championships were held until being suspended during World War II, and new techniques like spin and different racket materials were introduced in the following decades as the game revived in popularity internationally.

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    1. Table tennis originated in Victorian England in the late 19th century when British army officers in India and South Africa improvised games using cigar box lids, corks, and books. 2. The sport grew popular among the upper classes in England in the 1880s and manufacturers began producing dedicated equipment, with "Ping Pong" and "table tennis" being used interchangeably for the game. 3. In the early 20th century, organizations were formed to regulate the sport and the first world championships were held until being suspended during World War II, and new techniques like spin and different racket materials were introduced in the following decades as the game revived in popularity internationally.

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    1. Table tennis originated in Victorian England in the late 19th century when British army officers in India and South Africa improvised games using cigar box lids, corks, and books. 2. The sport grew popular among the upper classes in England in the 1880s and manufacturers began producing dedicated equipment, with "Ping Pong" and "table tennis" being used interchangeably for the game. 3. In the early 20th century, organizations were formed to regulate the sport and the first world championships were held until being suspended during World War II, and new techniques like spin and different racket materials were introduced in the following decades as the game revived in popularity internationally.

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    Pornela, Billy James

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    1. Table tennis originated in Victorian England in the late 19th century when British army officers in India and South Africa improvised games using cigar box lids, corks, and books. 2. The sport grew popular among the upper classes in England in the 1880s and manufacturers began producing dedicated equipment, with "Ping Pong" and "table tennis" being used interchangeably for the game. 3. In the early 20th century, organizations were formed to regulate the sport and the first world championships were held until being suspended during World War II, and new techniques like spin and different racket materials were introduced in the following decades as the game revived in popularity internationally.

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    The game became


    popular in England
    and the United Sates.
    1880’s
    Some sources claim that the sports was
    once known as indoor tennis and was
    played in the early 1880’s by British army
    officers stationed in India and South Africa.
    These officers are supposed to have used
    cigar box lids as paddles, rounded wine
    bottle corks as balls, and books for an
    improvised net.
    The name “Ping-Pong” then came
    to be used for the game played by
    the rather expensive Jacques
    equipment, with other
    manufactures calling theirs table
    tennis.
    1880’s
    The game had become
    fashionable among the
    upper classes in
    England.
    1890
    The earliest existing evidence of
    a table tennis game is a set by
    David Foster, patented in
    England, which include table
    version of Lawn Tennis, Cricket
    and football
    1890’s
    Parker brothers began making
    an indoor tennis kit which
    included a portable net, a small
    ball covered in netting, and
    paddlers
    1901
    John Jacques registered “Ping-Pong”
    as a trade name in England. The
    American rights to the name are sold
    to Parker Brothers.
    On the 12th December 1901, the table
    tennis association was formed in
    England. Four days later, The Table
    Tennis Association was formed in
    England.
    1920’s
    In the early 1920’s the
    game began to revive in
    England and Europe.
    1922
    The “The Table Tennis
    Association” is reconstituted,
    with the name “English Table
    Tennis Association” being
    adopted in 1927
    1940-1946
    No world
    Championships were
    held due to World War
    II
    1950’s
    There was the
    introduction of a new
    stroke.
    1952
    Hiroji Satoch of Japan became
    notorious for his use of a wooden
    racket and spin rather than
    conventional pimpled rubber
    rackets.

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