1926.
In England the "Table Tennis Association" started in 1922 (later adding the prefix "English") but in December 1926 the "International Table Tennis Federation" was formed.
The official name for Ping Pong is Table Tennis.
The official name for tennis is 'tennis'. The official name for tennis is 'tennis'.
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.
Ping pong is another name for table tennis. It was called ping pong and table tennis while the sport was still being developed, the name ping pong came from the sound of a rally. Table tennis is the official name of the sport. In chinese, the name for table tennis is ping pang, or 乒乓. The characters look like a table on purpose.
The rules of table tennis refer to a racket. Therefore, racket is the official name, although some people call it a bat or a paddle.
Err a table tennis table
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.
the official tennis ball name brand is Wilson
Table tennis is the official name since 1926, but previous names used for the sport were Gossima, Whiff-Whaff and Ping Pong, which were all either patented or trademarked.
The Official Laws of Table Tennis refer to it as a table tennis racket. However in different parts of the world some people call it a bat and some call it a paddle. The correct, official name, is a racket.
There is no difference between table tennis and ping pong. Table tennis and ping pong are just different names for the same sport.Table tennis is the official name for the sport, but when it was first invented it's popular name was ping pong. This is due to the sound the objects they used for bats would make.AnswerTable Tennis is the name of the sport played. That is why there isn't ping pong in the olympics. Ping Pong is a brand name that has since become interchangable with the word table tennis in the United States. There are ping pong tables which are used to play table tennis (the brand ping pong) and table tennis tables which are essentially the same thing.
The correct name for a table tennis paddle is a table tennis racket. Yes, it is OK for the racket to touch the table.