Table tennis

History Of Table tennis

For the engineer Darío Restrepo Valencia Honorary President of the Colombian Federation of Table Tennis Although the exact origin of table tennis is not known, it is known that the game became very popular in England and the United States by the end of last century. His clear resemblance to the tennis field indicates that it was conceived as an adaptation of the latter, probably to provide a substitute for tennis players during the cold winter seasons. Because of commercial interests, the game was popularized with the onomatopoeic name of a trademark, "ping-pong", which remains to this day improperly. Table tennis is played on a dark green table, whose surface is at a height of 76 cm.