The lines on a table tennis table have no purpose when playing singles.
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Singles Badminton, Singles Tennis, singles table tennis, track and field
Playing table tennis involves hitting a ball.
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to play table tennis is 'jouer au tennis de table' or 'jouer au ping-pong' (more frequent) in French.
By playing.
Table tennis
Not hitting the ball
To play table-tennis, you would require a fairly large sized room with a table tennis table. You need a net and either 2 or 4 (singles or doubles) wooden bats with a red and a black table tennis rubber fitted on each side. Finally you need a few table tennis balls.
The gold medal winner in the Men's Singles Table Tennis event at the Rio 2016 Olympics was Long Ma.
The bronze medal winner in the Men's Singles Table Tennis event at the Rio 2016 Olympics was Jun Mizutani.