What is table tennis?

Table tennis (also popularly known as ping-pong) is a racket sport that is played between two players or two couples (doubles). It is an Olympic sport since Seoul 1988, and the sport with the largest number of practitioners, with 40 million players competing worldwide. According to a study conducted by NASA, it is the most complicated sport that a human being can practice at a professional level.Diverse studies have shown that the practice of this sport improves, among others, the ability and reaction time, eye coordination -Hand, concentration and memory.

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The worldwide regulation of this sport is carried out by the International Table Tennis Federation (ITTF), which brings together more than 200 national organizations and 33 million federated at all levels of competition, from club tournaments to the world championships, held annually since 1926 and biannually since 1957, or the World Tour, a set of tournaments organized by the ITTF that are held on all continents and that brings together professionals of the highest level .

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He was born in the 1870s in England as a derivation of tennis. The history of this sport is marked by a series of technical developments, such as the nature of the rackets' coatings, increasing the size of the ball, reducing the number of goals per game or the introduction and subsequent prohibition of the use of fast glue , evolutions that led to innovations in the style of play, such as the use of the racket grip with Asian style or "pen" (originally by the Hungarians and later by the Asians), and in the tactics employed, such as the appearance of topspin in the late 1980s. Modern table tennis allows a wide variety of game systems, both offensive and defensive.

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