Yes, Table Tennis and ping pong are the same sport. Both terms refer to the game played on a table with small paddles and a lightweight ball, with the objective of hitting the ball back and forth over a net.
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Table tennis became an Olympic sport at the 1988 Games in Seoul, South Korea.
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.
Table tennis (ping pong)
Yes - ping-pong is an alternative name for table tennis.
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Table Tennis or 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.
Ping-pong is a sport it is affiliated with hand eye coordination. The U.S. does have a ping-pong team and Singapore also have ping pong team.
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Ping-Pong is a USA registered trademark, first developed in the early 1900s by Parker Brothers Inc., and it is now owned by Escalade Sports. Therefore the registered trademark "Ping-Pong" indicates a brand of equipment used to play the sport of table tennis. Ping-Pong is the brand and table tennis is the sport. However, in many places the names are still used interchangeably.
The national sport for China is Ping Pong and Soccer