Sports General Knowledge – Table Tennis Objective Questions

A: Table Tennis is also known as Ping-Pong.

A: Table Tennis was likely played with improvised equipment in England during the last quarter of the 19th century.

A: International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF).

A: It was came into being in 1920-21 when the old Ping-Pong Association that was formed in 1902 was revived.

A: The International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) was founded in 1926 with headquarters in Berlin.

A: Table Tennis was introduced in the Olympics in 1988 in Seoul, South Korea.

A: The first World Championship of Table Tennis was held in London in 1926.

A: The Table Tennis Federation of India (TTFI) was formed in 1926 in Calcutta.

A: It included in Commonwealth games in 2002 and in Olympics in 1988.

A: ITTF was founded in 1926 and it’s founding members were England, Sweden, Hungary, India, Denmark, Germany, Czechoslovakia, Austria, and Wales.

A: Table Tennis is played using table-tennis rackets and a plain hard surface called a Table, which is divided by a net.

A: A Table Tennis table is 9 ft. (2.74 meters) long, 5 ft. (1.525 meters) wide, and 2.5 ft. (76 centimeters) high.

A: The net in Table Tennis is 6 inches (15 centimeters) high from the table.

A: The weight of table tennis ball is around 2.7 grams or 0.09 ounce and has a diameter of about 4 cm or 1.6 inches.

A: Colour of table tennis ball can be white, yellow or orange.

A: Two or four players usually participate in Table Tennis.

A: Players grip their rackets in Table Tennis in a variety of ways, which can be classified into two major categories: Pen hold grip and shake hand grip.

A: Pen hold grip is mainly used by Chinese and Korean players.

A: Long service, short service, spin service, flat service, high toss service etc.

A: Drive, loop drive, loop, loop kill, hook, counter drive, flip and smash.

A: Push or slice, chop, block, side spin drive, lob and drop shot.

A. While service the ball must remain above the table’s surface and behind the endline at all times.

A. The receiver must return the ball back to receiver’s court before second bounce on his/her side.

A. It is considered as foul and the opponent gets a point.

A. It is also considered as foul and the opponent gets a point.

A. Player scoring 11 points first wins the match.

A. In this case first player to subsequently gaining a lead of 2 points is considered as winner.

A: In a typical match odd number of sets happens i.e. 5,7 etc. and best of five or seven games wins the match.

A: Service alternates between the two players every two points until the game ends.

A: After each set or game the players switched side.

A: Service should happen in such a way that it bounces once in the right hand box of the server and another bounce must happens at least once on opponents right hand box.

A: Player hits the ball turn by turn i.e. if A and B are on the same team then they will hit the ball turn by turn.

A: Penhold and shakehand.

A: It is popular among players of East Asian countries such as China, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan.

A: It is popular among players of Europe and of Americas.

A: Shakehand is easier to learn than penhold style as it’s easy to play/using both sides (offensive as well as defensive) of the racket in shakehand style.

A: Every 2 points until 10-all is reached after which it changes after every point.

A: In service it is not allowed to impact any spin to ball by the fingers. It was banned universally in 1937.

A: Backspin, topspin, sidespin and corkspin.

– For backspin a player strikes the base of the ball with a downward movement,
– It is used defensively to keep the ball low,

– In topspin the axis of spin remains perpendicular to the trajectory of the ball,
– It’s an offensive technique due to increased ball speed,
– Opponent gets less time to react on topspin because of it’s high speed,

– Sidespin is employed mostly during service,
– In sidespin ball spins on vertical axis, whereas in backspin and topspin spin occurs in horizontal axis,
– It has very little effect on bounce of ball,

– Spin axis is relatively parallel to the ball’s trajectory,
– After bounce the ball moves to right or left making the return difficult,
– It is always mixed with another variety of spin as alone it’s not very effective.

– Australian Open
– ITTF World Tour
– World Table Tennis Championship
– Table Tennis World Cup
– Olympics etc.

– Held since 1926 and biennially since 1957,
– Five individual happens in it viz. men’s singles, women’s singles, men’s doubles, women’s double and mixed doubles.

– Held annually since 1980,
– Initially only men’s singles was there, then team competition in 1990 and women’s singles was inaugurated in 1996.

– It was included in Olympics since 1988 including both singles and doubles for men as well as women.

– Used to be known as ITTF Pro Tour until 2011, was an annual series introduced by ITTF in 1996,
– It includes events in 7 categories viz. Men’s singles, Women’s singles, Men’s doubles, Women’s doubles, Mixed doubles, Under-21 Men’s singles and Under-21 Women’s Singles,
– 2021: ITTF World Tour replaced by the newly created World Table Tennis.

A. Returning the service is the most difficult part because server’s first move is often the least predictable due to the numerous spin and speed choices at the server’s disposal.

A: China has won over 60% of the men’s World Championships since 1959.