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David Foster of England introduced the first action game of tennis on a table (Table Tennis) in 1890.
Table tennis was introduced to the olympics in 1988.
David Foster of England introduced the first action game of tennis on a table (table tennis) in 1890.
David Foster of England introduced the first action game of tennis on a table (Table Tennis) in 1890.
The first Commonwealth Table Tennis Championships were in Singapore in 1971, but the first time that table tennis was included in the Commonwealth Games was in 2002 in Manchester, England.
The English
It was in 1988 - in Seoul, South Korea - that table tennis first joined the Olympics and became an Olympic sport.
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tums and byte were the first players in table tennis
England
The game of table tennis has its roots in lawn tennis. When lawn tennis became very popular in the 1870s & 1880s, game makers tried to emulate its success by developing indoor versions of the game. So there were card games, board & dice games, rackets & balloon games and even tiddledy winks tennis games. But the first use of the name Table Tennis occurred on a board and dice game by J.H.Singer of New York around 1884 and it's also known that a game of Table Tennis was offered in the 1887 game catalogue of George S. Parker, founder of the famed Parker Brothers in America. But the first action game of tennis on a table was in 1890, so it was David Foster of England who is the founder/inventor of table tennis in 1890, and so the first players would have been from England.
The game of table tennis has its roots in lawn tennis. When lawn tennis became very popular in the 1870s & 1880s, game makers tried to emulate its' success by developing indoor versions of the game. David Foster of England introduced the first action game of tennis on a table in 1890.