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The game was first played in the UK by upper class Victorians with cigar box lids for bats and a champagne cork for a ball. As it became popular it was known as Gossima, wiff-waff and ping-pong.
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What is the proper name for the table you play table tennis on?
Err a table tennis table
Is PING PONG a table tennis?
Yes - ping-pong is an alternative name for table tennis.
What is theFirst name of table tennis excepts for pingpong?
Table tennis has been called ... Whiff Whaff Gossima Ping Pong The official name is table tennis. The name Ping Pong is now a USA trademark.
Who is in the current GB table tennis team?
What is the name of the most local table tennis club in New ham
Name three sports that Longines is closely involved in?
boxing tennis table tennis
Is the Chinese name for table tennis ping pong?
Actually not really. We still call it table tennis, if I render from Chinese into English we call it "Table ball"
Is table tennis the same as ping pong?
One of the original names for table tennis was ping pong. Ping Pong was then registered as a trademark by the sports company John Jaques & Son in England. Parker Brothers in the USA also bought the rights from Jaques to use the name ping pong in the USA only. So the name of the game was changed to table tennis. The official name today is table tennis. Ping Pong is still a trademark and is a brand of equipment in the USA which is used to play the sport of table tennis.
What is a other name for ping pong?
table tennis
What was the name before ping pong?
Table Tennis
Which is the International Governing Body for Table Tennis?
International Table Tennis Federation (www.ittf.com) is the name of the international organization representing ping pong.
How is table tennis and tennis different?
table tennis is played on a 15x6 table and meany different rules to tennis
Where does table tennis get its name?
It is played similarly to tennis and the court it is played on is a table.So it is not absolutely clear.
