Talk:Table Tennis

International Table Tennis Rules can be found at http://www.ittf.com/ITTF_Hand_Book/2_Handbook.html

2.11.1 A game shall be won by the player or pair first scoring 11 points unless both players or pairs score 10 points, when the game shall be won by the first player or pair subsequently gaining a lead of 2 points.

2.13.3 After each 2 points have been scored the receiving player or pair shall become the serving player or pair and so on until the end of the game, unless both players or pairs score 10 points or the expedite system is in operation, when the sequences of serving and receiving shall be the same but each player shall serve for only 1 point in turn.

Can't we have some history? First played using a ball carved out of a champagne cork with a net and bats both consisting of books etc.? BozMo

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Removed this section, which was added by 128.114.51.224:

Illegal style of play

The pong pong player photo on this wikipedia page show a very specific illegal
style of Table Tennis. Notice the hand hold of the paddle of this player. This
photo show the man has no rudimentary training or knowledge of Table Tennis.
Illegal Table Tennis playing style is a common phenomenon worldwide. It is due
to the wide popularity of the sport and the extreme lack of professionals /
trainers in this field.

There are many ways to play pingpong illegally.

Please, someone post a better photo!!! IT is a shame to have this guys photo posted here!!!

The grammar is poor, the first paragraph is pretty pointless without more detail, and the "please post another photo" request belongs on this Talk page (although I do agree that a better photo would be an improvement). - Plutor 17:49, 28 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Illegal style

I have moved the following comment by 128.114.50.84 here from the article because it is criticism of the article and does not provide any information to the reader who wants to learn about TT . A section on what is good legal style in TT would be helpful. Lumos3 22:07, 15 Sep 2004 (UTC)

Recreational level table tennis showing table, net, and player returning ball with racquet.

The pong pong player photo on the top of this wikipedia page shows a very specific illegal style of Table Tennis. Notice the hand hold of the paddle of this player. This photo shows the man has no rudimentary training or knowledge of Table Tennis. Illegal Table Tennis playing style is a common phenomenon worldwide. It is due to the wide popularity of the sport and the extreme lack of professionals / trainers in this field.

I think the illegal style comment goes too far. As long as a style doesn't include rule-breaking moves, it can't be ruled illegal arbitrarily. If styles of play, rather than dirty tricks, can be outlawed, then the top table tennis players won't get much respect! They'll be better off as table tennis lawyers! -Jimworm

This could be a featured article

I think that this article has good potential to become a featured article. It would be great if someone who is interested in table tennis would put the article up for peer review. ike9898 June 28, 2005 21:17 (UTC)

Humans and History

Is table tennis a sport that is no longer played by humans and all we have left in the 21st century are the rules of the game, measurements, and the historical evolution of the paddle and ball? And today it only played by robots? It sure seems that way from this article. Who are the well known players? What attributes put them at the top of their game? What are the major table tennis tournaments? Are there schools of playing?

Good point. If you know the answers to these questions then please add them to the article Lumos3 30 June 2005 07:43 (UTC)

Sources

is table tennis really the second most played sport in the world? - is there a source for this claim? Personally speaking, I always feel that claims of this kind (if unsubstantiated) kinda detract from the overall article - after all, table tennis is cool without it being so ubiquitous! Petesmiles

Seconded.. their should be a backup to this claim of changed to. "one of the world more popular sports"

This source suggests 3rd place: http://www.johann-sandra.com/popular.htm But also discusses the many claims which are laid on the second place, and ofcourse there is no real definition of who plays a sport (Brazil has almost no registered soccer players, but about 100 million who do)

and 400 million basketball players, that's more then there are americans and eastern european (the main forces) combined...

Romanista on [August 18], 2005..

Okey Dokey - went ahead and made the change you can now see -- haven't sourced the claim, because don't really have any faith in the validity of many of the claims - but i think its ok the way it is.... Petesmiles 12:03, 18 August 2005 (UTC)

Forrest???

I don't get the Forrest Gump reference. I would have nuked it for being silly (but then again people have nuked "my" stuff for being silly and I didn't like that, so ....).

In short: WTF (sorry) is that about???

I've seen the film. AFAICR (R=recall) it's not a noteworthy table tennis example. Wit 17:00, 8 September 2005 (UTC)

Animations

I think the animations are a great addition to the article but they are too noisy to have at the article head. I have moved them to the notable player section and restored the colour image to the head of article. They are excellent to give readers a feel of an outstanding player in action but the quality is too poor to head the article. Even if of better quality I'm not sure an article looks good with an animation at its head. I dont know of any examples in Wikipedia where this is done. Lumos3 08:36, 2 November 2005 (UTC)

Chinese characters

The English pinyin for the "table tennis" in Chinese is wrong (actually, it's the pinyin for the "Japanese" part, which is kanji which is also table tennis in Chinese). Can somebody who knows pinyin fix it please? Jimworm 21:42, 4 November 2005 (UTC)

Moving this page

Someone ( 201.21.77.174 or Tosqueira ) moved this page to Table Tennis without discussion. I can see no reason for this and have undone the change. If you think it should be moved please state reasons here. By the way , Wikipedia Naming conventions#Lowercase second and subsequent words states that

Convention: Do not capitalize second and subsequent words unless the title is a proper noun (such as a name) or is otherwise almost always capitalized (for example: John Wayne, but not Computer Game).

Lumos3 14:50, 9 November 2005 (UTC)