What is the difference between a big ball and a small ball in table tennis? Is there a difference in the use of balls in various levels of competition?

At present, all levels of competition take playing as the standard ball. Small ball is the standard ball used by ITTF before changing the rules, and it is no longer used in regular competitions.

Table tennis originated in England. /kloc-At the end of 0/9, tennis was all the rage in Europe. However, due to the limitation of venue and weather, some college students in Britain move tennis indoors, using the dining table as a table, books as a net, parchment as a racket and playing around the dining table. 1890, several British naval officers stationed in India came across that playing tennis on a small table was quite exciting. Later, they used solid rubber instead of solid balls, then hollow plastic balls and wooden boards instead of rackets to play this novel "tennis match" on the table, which is the origin of the name table tennis.

Soon after its appearance, table tennis became a popular sport. At the beginning of the 20th century, the United States began to produce complete sets of table tennis equipment. Table tennis is the number one grip sport in the United States, and more than 200,000 Americans play table tennis. At first, table tennis had other names, such as indoor tennis. Later, an American manufacturer coined the new word Ping-pang with the sound of ping-pong hitting, which became another official name of ping-pong. When table tennis was introduced to China, people created a new word-table tennis.

Many words in table tennis come from tennis. The ball used for table tennis is called table tennis or table tennis, the table is called table tennis table, the table is called court, the net in the middle is called net support, and the table tennis bat is called table tennis bat.

Table tennis singles usually adopt two wins in three games or two wins in five games (2 1 minute per game), but in 2006, it was changed to two wins in seven games or two wins in five games (1 1 minute per game). The so-called "game" is to set and serve in English.

Among all kinds of table tennis competitions, the most famous is the World Table Tennis Championships, which was held once a year at first, and changed to be held every two years after 1957.