Interesting Facts about Table Tennis on World Table Tennis Day

Table Tennis is one of the fastest growing sports in the world and every country is working hard to take this game to the new heights. So many schemes and plans are implemented by the different associations and ITTF around the globe for the betterment of this dynamic sport. 
Today is World Table Tennis Day that is on 6th April, So lets talk about this game and here is some facts you must know about Table Tennis.

1.  Table Tennis is most popular indoor sport in the world with 222 association and territories.

2. As we all know, China is dominating in this game but still the greatest player came from Sweden , Jan-ove-Waldner. 
During his 30 year-long career as a professional player, he won 16 World Championship medals in singles and doubles combined as well as a gold and a silver medal at the Olympics, earning the nickname Mozart of Table Tennis.

3. The Guinness Book world record longest Table Tennis rally is between father and son Peter and Daniel Ives of England for 8 hour 40 minutes that is 32,000 total hits.

4. China made its first appearance in international competition in 1953. China won its first world championship title in 1959.

5. Ping Pong diplomacy used by US and China in 1971 to develop diplomatic relation where friendship matches played throughout the US between the both country's National team.

6. Table tennis was banned in the Soviet Union from 1930 to 1950. The sport was believed to be harmful to the eyes.

7. Skilled athletes can slam a ping pong ball across the net at speeds surpassing 100 miles per hour. 
In 1993, two players named Jackie Bellinger and Lisa Lomas Set a World Record for hitting a ping pong ball back and forth 173 times in one minute.

8. It has been suggested that makeshift versions of the game were developed by British military officers in India in around 1860s or 1870s, who brought it back with them.

9. An official hall of fame exists at the ITTF Museum. A Grand Slam is earned by a player who wins singles crowns at Olympic games, World champianship and World Cup.  Jan-Ove-Waldner of Sweden first completed the grand slam at 1992 Olympic Games. Deng Yaping of China is the first female recorded at the inaugural Women's World Cup in 1996.

10. In 1921, the Table Tennis Association was founded in Britain and International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF) followed in 1926. London hosted the first official World Championship in 1926.

So these were some interesting and important facts about Table Tennis. As this game is growing , one day this sport will become most popular sport around the world.

#Wish You All Happy World Table Tennis Day#

Table Tennis is a brain game

Table Tennis is a game where a player need to be very quick.. This quickness is not about physical fitness only but mental also. During the rally one get a time less than half second and in this very short duration player has to decide what to do , where to do and how to do??
So first decision comes after that only stroke will work properly.
So use of brain in table tennis is very important as whole game is depends on your strategy and planning. When two player of same level plays then only the one who use brain properly will win. Table Tennis is a mind game in many ways :-

Service :-
When its your serve then think properly and plan accordingly that which serve to do? What will be the possible returns? What will you do next? Which area of the table is suitable for service and which spin you have to use?
These all  things you must decide before every service.

Receiving:-
Receiving a service properly is also a very important part of table tennis otherwise you'll loose the point. Use your brain for reading the service properly like which service is this, how to receive, which area of table , length of receiving and open it or return it with chop?
These are the important points you have to look before every receiving.

Rally:-
In between the rally , your brain plays an important role to convert it in a point. How to hit the ball, quality of topspin, speed or spin of the ball and opponents forehand or backhand etc. These are the important things to understand in between the rally for taking the point.

Tactics:-
Tactics is the over all planning of your game and reading the opponents game accordingly.
Try to play always at week point of opponent and know about your strong point like if your forehand is stronger than your backhand and opponent's forehand is weaker then try to hit the ball with your forehand to opponent's forehand. Other game planning is also comes under the tactics.

So as table tennis is very fast game in which you need to be physically fit but also your mental fitness is important to become a successful table tennis player.

Amazing Movies on Table Tennis

Now a days , Mass media is the most important source of knowledge and information and movies are the best type of it. We can see that directors, writers and cinematographers are working hard all around the globe to make movies on sports. As so many sports are already in this category on which so much works or movies are there. Table Tennis is not away from this as there are also some fantastic movies on Table Tennis for the lovers of this mind blowing sport.

1.     Balls of Fury

Balls of fury is an american movie released in 2007. Its a comedy movie but whole story of the movie was around the table tennis sport. You'll see mysterious shots and tricks which do not belongs to the real sport but obviously this movie show you the passion, dedication and emotion attached to table tennis in a very comic way. Balls of fury is one of the most watched table tennis related movie and full of entertainment .

2. As One

As One is very creative and full of emotion movie based on true events. This is a Korean movie released in 2012. As One is the story of post war , when North Korea and South Korea Table Tennis Team Participated in major event world table tennis championship as a unified Korea team.
Basically this movie is based on the story of  Ri bun-hui from North Korea table tennis team and Hyun jung-hwa from South Korea table tennis team. Always they played in the world tournaments as a strong opponent but both countries decided to make a unified team of 'Korea' then these player forget all their personal anger and criticism and show the amazing team work . Their hard work and dedication worked and finally Korean Team defeated the strongest team China in world table tennis championship 1991 final and won gold medal.
This movie is full of sports sprit, hard work and dreams. As this is based on the story of real players and event so all professional players can connect with this movie.

3. Ping-Pong

This is also a full of entertainment and emotional work. Ping-Pong is a famous Movie from Japan released in 2002. This movie nominated for eight Japan's academics awards in 2003.
Ping-Pong based on the story of two friends who joined school table tennis team. Both of them were hard working and dedicated but they were not the best and defeated by other players in the tournaments. After that they started working more hard . In between this one player from China hired by opponent's so that no one can defeat him. One of the friend played with that Chinese player in inter school tournament and defeated strongly by 21-0. This broke him but he still had dreams and passion . He forget about everything and practised for hours under his coach for some time . After that in next tournament he defeated the Chinese player in first round and other strong player 'Dragon' in semifinals, even after the injury.
At last both friend were able to full fill their dreams , one of them played professionally in some European countries also and other started teaching table tennis professionally.
Ping-Pong movie is full of inspiration and teach us that "no defeat is final until you stop trying" .

These were the movies fully based on Table Tennis Sports , but some other movies are also in which table tennis is included in the story line. 'Forest Gump' and 'Top Spin' movies are also of the same category.