Popularity Growth of Table Tennis

Recently, table tennis has grown significantly since the upper class was born in the UK in the late nineteenth century. Table tennis began as a leisure sports event and a social transfer in the 1880s, when lawn tennis supporters adapted sports entertainment to indoor entertainment during the winter. (Overview of biomechanics of coaching and athlete's competition) Table tennis is a very fast indoor game in various competitions and sports.

Competitive table tennis is very popular in East Asia and Europe, and attracts attention in the United States. The most important international conventions are the World Table Tennis Championships, Table Tennis World Cup, The Olympic Games, and the ITTF World Tour. Since 1959, Chinese players have won 60% of the men's world championships; since 1971, Chinese players have won three world championships in the women's championships. Other strong teams from Austria, Belarus, Germany, Hong Kong, Portugal, Japan and other countries come from East Asia and Europe. Korea, Singapore, Sweden, Taiwan

Established in 1926, the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) not only hosts world table tennis championships but also runs an international ranking system. In 2007, the management of the table tennis for persons with disabilities was transferred from the International Paralympic Committee to ITTF. On many continents, there is a regulatory agency in charge of table tennis on the continent. For example, the European Table Tennis Federation (ETTU) is the governance body that oversees European table tennis. There are also domestic institutions in charge of sports and other local governments like the US table tennis team (USATT) which is the national governance body for American table tennis.